Thursday, December 7, 2006

eBay's St. Nick 'relic' sale draws protest

If you don't hear Old Saint Nick up on the rooftop on Christmas Eve, maybe it's because he's been sold on eBay.
The online auction house is under fire for allowing the sale of a holy relic, purported to be a bone fragment, of St. Nicholas of Bari, the 4th-century gift-giving saint who was the inspiration for today's Santa Claus.

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