While the articles focus on Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy has its fair share of relics as well. I'm told that the remains of the supposed saint "John of Shanghai and San Fransisco" are the only viewable Orthodox relics in the U.S. (in San Fransisco). Wikipedia provided the following photograph which purports to be a photograph of his partly decomposed corpse. (No venerating, please.)
Praise be to the God of the Living!
-TurretinFan
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I'm pretty ignorant on the Catholic church and those like them. Do they worship relics? If not, what do they do with them?
Well, they bow down to them and reverence them. They call this "venerating" them. We view such "veneration" as worship, and properly condemn it as idolatrous.
The modern Roman Catholics shy away from referring to the veneration of relics as "worship" - largely, one suspects, because of Reformation pressures.
Nevertheless, in older books one can see admissions that it is worship of relics that is going on:
E.G. One Example
-Turretinfan
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