There is no power in created man or objects to raise the dead but in God alone. Put no confidence in princes, prophets, wood, stone, undecomposed hearts, decomposed hearts, fingers, brains, splinters, crying statues, paintings, beads, necklaces, or anything else that may be offered, sold, or suggested to you – put your trust in the Lord! 

Then he said to Gehazi, “Get yourself ready, and take my staff in your hand, and be on your way. If you meet anyone, do not greet him; and if anyone greets you, do not answer him; but lay my staff on the face of the child.” And the mother of the child said, “As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So he arose and followed her. Now Gehazi went on ahead of them, and laid the staff on the face of the child; but there was neither voice nor hearing. Therefore he went back to meet him, and told him, saying, “The child was not awakened.”

II Kings 4:29-31 NKJV

In 2019, a procession went down the streets of NYC, led by Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Roman Catholic Church with the focus on a box that contained the “incorrupt” (undecomposed) heart of a French saint who had died more than 150 years earlier. It traveled through NYC so that it could be venerated by faithful Roman Catholics on its way to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The Black Nazarene is a life-sized crucifix that is the most famous relic of the Philippines. Most Roman Catholics in the Philippines believe that just by touching it one can be healed of diseases.

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