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828
year: 1169
initiator: R. episcopus Bethleemita
recipient: Dominus Mauricius de Credone
text: (c. Mar.) R. episcopus Bethleemita provides a sealed certificate of authenticity for the following relics possessed by dominus Mauricius de Credone: fragments of the nail and the hammer used at the Crucifixion, relics of St Joseph, of the site of the Nativity, of the manger, of the ashes associated with St John the Baptist [118] and of tiny fragments of St John the Baptist’s head. (c. Mar.) R. episcopus Bethleemita provides a sealed certificate of authenticity for the following relics possessed by dominus Mauricius de Credone: fragments of the nail and the hammer used at the Crucifixion, relics of St Joseph, of the site of the Nativity, of the manger, of the ashes associated... more
sources: Broussillon, La Maison de Craon 1:103, no. 141
comments: [118] It was believed that the remains of St John the Baptist’s body had been deliberately, but only partially, burnt on the orders of the Emperor Julian the Apostate in the 4th century.

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