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Russian saint's alleged bones for sale online

ST. PETERSBURG -- The Russian Orthodox Church is outraged after a skull and bone supposedly belonging to St. Phillip showed up for sale online.

The Russian Web site that had the relics up for sale described them as the "remains of an Orthodox saint, in good condition, with an inscription on the cranium confirming the saint's name," the BBC reported.

The church called the advertisement immoral, but did not state whether it thinks the bone and skull are real.

The item's seller, Boris Georgiev,...said that the 16th-Century relic was found along with the remaining pieces from the St. Petersburg Atheism Museum that was closed after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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