The Holy Finger of Kansas City
A holy finger sits in a Kansas City art museum
Category Relics and Reliquaries
Located in the depths of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is a case filled with silver relics of Christianity. One item in particular is intriguing but only if you read the little sign next to the huge case of items. Several feet above the ground, encased in a glass vial and gilded within a silver cage is the finger bone of Jesus of Nazareth's first cousin, Saint John the Baptist.
John's right hand, the one with which he baptized Jesus, is said to be in the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Cetinje monastery in Montenegro, and his head is rumored to be in a couple different places.
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- Website Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
- Address 4525 Oak Street, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Anonymous
June 23, 2009
The person with his finger raised in the picture is famous "doubting" Thomas. If this is Thomas's finger it makes sense since he placed it inside the resurrected Jesus's side and hands to see if it was really Jesus. But that is in a church in Rome. It's still nice that its John the Baptist, if that's who it is. -
Anonymous
June 23, 2009
You might need to check your facts a little. St John the Baptist dies long before the Last Supper. Although there was a John amoung the diciples, he was not Christs cousin.
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