With my tendency to misread headlines, at first I thought this said "Parishioners Pay for Return of St. Lawrence O'Toole's Heart". It seemed as if someone had announced they were holding it for ransom, instead of having taken it for God knows what purpose. If only it were known to be simple avarice.
There is an underground trade in relics, of course, but this is something too unique to show up in the classifieds. And eBay won't take human body parts; besides, they learned better than to list things like this a few years ago, when thousands of us threatened to close our accounts because someone was allowed to list a consecrated Host.
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