One of the things i do is auctions. In doing so, I received notice from my brother in law of a person who is a priest who needs to sell some things to acquire monies. I went to his house and spoke to him to find out his situation. I have never felt so emotional about a priest before but I knew he was someone special. This priest is older with medical conditions. He explained to me that he needed monies not only for himself but for an sick relative. His house was filled with things I would never imagine seeing in my lifetime. Most of which he acquired through gifts upon completing spirtual rituals. One of the things he had was the relic. He explained to me how he received the piece in 1974. The daughter of pricess Donatella Colonna had issues in her villa in Italy with ghosts because of WWll. Apparently, Germans were buried there. The father was called upon to do a spiritual ritual. In leau of this, the princess gave the father the relic. If you read about the history of the column of flaggellation, in 1223, someone from the colonna familly took the column from Jerusalem. I became friends with this priest and in the end he really wanted me to acquire the relic. I gave a charitable donation for it and gladdly excepted. He even gave me a hand written provenance with all the explanation and signed and notorized it. My name is at the bottom of it as the last true owner.
