Relics and Pilgrimage

Went to see the British Museum exhibition called Treasures of Heaven: saints, relics and devotion in Medieval Europe.

Highly relevant today.

At the end there was a three minute silent film showing modern cult of celebrity and remembrance: crowds and flowers at Graceland, crowds and flowers after Princess Diana's death, crowds queueing to see Lenin's mausoleum, and Mikhail Gorbachev visiting the desk at the British Library where Marl Marx worked.

In the same week, Amy Winehouse's dad was handing out items of her clothing to gathered fans in Camden Square.

"There is no new thing under the sun" - Ecclesiastes 1:9