Top five religious mysteriesWhat an odd collection, and how odd to think that a list mainly of lost, legendary, and/or fake relics somehow constitute the "top five religious mysteries." The exception to my generalization is the Dead Sea Scrolls, which are a mystery in the sense that, although most scholars accept that they come from the Essenes, there is a good deal of debate about what exactly that means.
As yet another theory emerges as to the origins of the Turin Shroud, here are the top five religious mysteries.
By Nick Squires, Rome (The Telegraph)
9:00PM BST 07 Jun 2011
For the Ark of the Covenant, start here and follow the links. I have posted less on the other relics, but see here for the Holy Grail; here for the True Cross and here for Simcha Jacobovici's True Cross nails; and here for another face-cloth of Christ. And this post covers a few of these relics as well.
I suppose I should just be glad that the fake metal codices didn't make the list.