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RELICS:
The word relic comes from the Latin reliquiae, meaning "remains" or "something left behind" (the
same root as relinquish)
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There is much doubt and suspicion regarding the legitimacy of the Pardoner’s relics
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He cheats money out of people by selling his relics
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The Pardoner demonstrates how he sells his relics and what each one does
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There are conditions to who can buy his relics, these conditions force people to prove their
innocence
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The Pardoner makes it clear that he does not sell the relics for the good of the people, but instead
for his own personal gain
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He makes the extreme claim that his relics are form the Pope
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Quotes:
“For in his male he hadde a pilwe-beer,
Which that he seyde was Oure Lady veil:
He seyde he hadde a gobet of the seil
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“But with thise relikes, whan that he fond
A povre person dwelling upon lond,
Upon that day he gat him moore moneye
That that the person gat in monthes tweye
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“hooly Jewes sheep
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“Of pokkes and of scabbe and every soore
Shal every sheep be hool of this welle
Drinketh a draughte
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“also it heeleth jalousie”

“Al had she taken prestes two or thre
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“If any wight be in this chirche now
That hath doon sinne horrible, that he
Dar nat for shame yshriven it be
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“I preche of no thing but for coveitise
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Which were me yeven by the popes hond
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“I wolde I hadde thy coillons in myn hond
In stide of relikes or of seintuarie
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The Catholic Church in the Middle Ages believed that the relics had miraculous powers
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They thought they had the power to cure illness and to make women fertile was a
common claim
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In religion, a relic is a part of the body of a saint or a venerated person, or else another type of
ancient religious object, carefully preserved for purposes of veneration or as a touchable or tangible
memorial
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Since Christians during the Middle Ages often took
pilgrimages to shrines of holy people, relics became a large business
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Instead of having to travel hundreds
of miles to become near to a venerated saint, one could venerate the relics of the saint within one's
own home

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