Airport Security to Lourdes Pilgrim: Your Holy Water is a Security Threat

Photo of Lourdes by Beyond Forgetting, via Flickr (Creative Commons).

Paola Saluzzi tried to carry eight small plastic bottles of water “in the shape of the little Madonna” from Lourdes on one of the Vatican’s new charter flights for pilgrims, but security inspectors at France’s Tarbes-Lourdes airport stopped her from bringing the liquid with the supposedly miraculous healing powers back to Rome. Reuters writes, “The real miracle would have been getting it past airport security.”

Nah, the real miracle will be when we don’t have to deal with the ridiculous rule anymore.

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