How Jesus' foreskin became one of Christianity's most-coveted relics, and then disappeared, produced by CBC Radio's Ideas program in 2021, is a documentary journalism account of the medieval Holy Prepuce relics, the 1900 Holy Office decree discouraging their veneration, and the unsolved 1983 theft of the Calcata relic. As public broadcast documentary journalism rather than peer-reviewed scholarship, it is useful for the narrative sequence of these well-documented events, corroborated by the historical record it draws on. It is not a scholarly monograph and its framing choices are a journalist's rather than a specialist historian's, so a claim needing precise dating or attribution is worth checking against a dedicated academic study.
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Reliability Tier3
How Jesus' Foreskin Became One of Christianity's Most Coveted Relics, and Then Disappeared, produced by CBC Radio's Ideas program in 2021, the lower tier reflecting public broadcast documentary journalism rather than peer reviewed scholarship, useful for the narrative sequence of well-documented events including the 1900 Holy Office decree and the unsolved 1983 theft of the Calcata relic. Its framing choices are a journalist's rather than a specialist historian's, so a claim needing precise dating or attribution is worth checking against a dedicated academic study. NotesDocumentary account of the Holy Prepuce relics, the 1900 Holy Office decree discouraging veneration, and the 1983 theft at Calcata.
Citation
AuthorCBC Radio (Ideas)
PublisherCanadian Broadcasting Corporation
Publication Year2021
URLhttps://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/how-jesus-foreskin-became-one-of-christianity-s-most-coveted-relics-and-then-disappeared-1.6002421
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Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)
This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Artifacts & Relics, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
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