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Show Worshipers in Egypt Pray To Their Martyrs' Bones Every Coptic Church in Egypt possesses the bones of five or six martyrs, each set being preserved in a leather container about two feet long and shaped like a golf bag, says Collier's. These reliquaries reli-quaries are usually kept in a box from which any worshiper may remove re-move his favorite in order to pray to him. During their prayers, the men prostrate themselves before the bag, whereas the women fondle it in their arms as they would an infant. |