Marian first class relics?

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Author Eric Metaxas, in his new book, Martin Luther, has quoted another author, Scott Hendrix, who asserts that St. Mary’s Cathedral in Erfurt, Germany (which by the way is still a Roman Catholic Cathedral) had a bone fragment of St. Mary. There were pilgrimages there to venerate her relic. (The St. Mary, the Mother Of God)

I was taught there were no 1st class relics because tradition, both Catholic and Orthodox, says she was assumed bodily into heaven.

Is this tradition wrong? Or does St. Mary’s indeed have her relic?
 
i have heard that a “belt” worn by Our Lady still exists

but a “bone fragment”, ? no way 😦
 
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Mary passed away first before her Assumption.

This is known in the East as the Dormition or falling asleep of Mary.

I don’t see how a bone of hers could exist though… she was assumed shortly aftet passing away.

I would just disbelieve the accusation. Sounds like garbage to me.
 
You sure you’re not mistaken? I do not see that claim even on Wikipedia
 
Could they be referring to a different St Mary? We also don’t usually call the Blessed Virgin “St Mary.”
 
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I do not have Hendrix’ book so I do not know his sources, but he is quoted as stating that St. Mary’s , " had innumerable relics, the most remarkable of which was a bone fragment from Saint Mary herself. Pilgrims to that shrine believed they were gazing upon a sanctified chunk of the very arms that held the Infant Jesus. "

There must be sources that describe a pilgrimage there to venerate our Lady’s relic.

Today that Cathedral is the seat of the diocese. I don’t read German or I would look for sources for that.
 
Sounds like a bunch of horse manure.

Extensive internet searches have revealed nothing except for Marys house, supposed locks of Marys hair, and tales of supposed BVM breast milk in the middle ages.

Absolutely nothing about a bone of hers.

If there ever was such a thing so sensational, it would be all over the place. Not some obscure thing that random authors quote other random authors claiming it exists.

I’m calling it here and now: this is a lie that should be discarded.
 
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Yeah, I don’t think that is true.
The mentions of its relics lack any bones of the sort.
 
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That breast milk thing is bizarre…
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Eh, probably only because us Westerners have hypersexualized the female breast and can’t just accept it as a body part that babies get nourishment from.

Google “Lactation of St. Bernard” and you will see some interesting depictions of Mary’s breast milk…
 
no… just that someone in Jesus’s time would have the presence of mind to preserve breast milk…
 
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Sounds like a bunch of horse manure.
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Well, yes, but I think that is what the author is implying. If he did find a source that mentions such a pilgrimage it just proves his point of the corruption in the medieval era church.
 
I don’t think anyone did…presumably Jesus consumed the milk when it was available…the lactation stories from the Middle Ages seem to involve Mary appearing and, um, squirting some milk (sorry…but that’s the most accurate description)
 
I posted the following on another thread, but I think it is germane here since it pertains to relics. So at the risk of plagiarizing myself I offer the following:

There is an excellent little history of the Feast of the Assumption on the EWTN website. Here is an excerpt that I’ve heard before and that I particularly like:

At the Council of Chalcedon in 451, when bishops from throughout the Mediterranean world gathered in Constantinople, Emperor Marcian asked the Patriarch of Jerusalem to bring the relics of Mary to Constantinople to be enshrined in the capitol. The patriarch explained to the emperor that there were no relics of Mary in Jerusalem, that “Mary had died in the presence of the apostles; but her tomb, when opened later . . . was found empty and so the apostles concluded that the body was taken up into heaven.”

The rest of the document can be found at:

https://www.ewtn.com/library/ANSWERS/AOFMARY.HTM5

Blessings
 
Evidence of the universal belief in the Assumption, is that among the mountain of fake relics found from the first centuries, there are none claiming to be from Mary’s body. No one would buy them anyway. So forgers didn’t bother.
 
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I don’t think its true, a priest of the Syrian Orthodox Church ,who is a friend of mine showed me a relic of Mother Mary’s hair and people venerate it in their Church,i was a bit skeptical about it though.
 
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