Airport Security to Lourdes Pilgrim: Your Holy Water is a Security Threat
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 08.30.07 | 11:39 AM ET
Photo of Lourdes by 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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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Marilyn Terrell 08.30.07 | 5:47 PM ET
The funny thing is, the Vatican-affiliated Mistral Air circumvented the rule by presenting passengers with bottles of holy water after they’d boarded the flight home from Lourdes: http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/furthermore/2007/08/air-travel-heav.html