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A fragment that outlived its purpose and got promoted to sacred by sheer stubbornness.
medieval marketSaints' bones sold for cathedral-funding fortunes
too manyEnough True Cross splinters to build a ship
living relicCoelacanth fish thought extinct for 65 million years
word rootFrom Latin reliquiae, meaning leftovers
radio relicCosmic shockwaves haunting dead galaxy clusters