The relics of Saint Nicholas were stolen from the Basilica of Saint Nicholas de Porte and burned.
It should be noted that the police were able to quickly identify the thief and arrest him. During the interrogation, he admitted what he had done and said that he "broke a shop window, then burned and crushed the remains."
"In addition to the cultural value of this item, what worries us greatly today is that this is a serious attack on our history, our faith and the religious devotion of generations of pilgrims," the parish of St. Nicholas.
The information portal Christian Tribune, in turn, reports that this is the third attack on the basilica since the beginning of the year. According to him, the attacker explained his actions as a "fight against fetishism", comparing the worship of relics to the practice of superstitions.
The portal quotes the head of the association "Knowledge and Revival of the Basilica of Saint-Nicolas-de-Port" Denis Burkin, who said that the destroyed relic is a bone fragment about 2 cm long, which was kept in a glass box separately from other relics in the basilica's treasury. He also rejected the thief's claims of "fetishism", and emphasized that the church does not worship the relics, but God, while the veneration of the relics of the martyrs is intended to express respect for those who lived faithfully to Christ.
And why everyone? Because the left has been running anti-religious propaganda for over a century, filling people's heads with all kinds of garbage about universal genders and people.