Now a particularly enduring Catholic practice is on prominent display in, of all places, Florence’s history of science museum, recently renovated and renamed to honor Galileo: Modern-day supporters of the famous heretic are exhibiting newly recovered bits of his body — three fingers and a gnarly molar sliced from his corpse nearly a century after he died — as if they were the relics of an actual saint.
via www.nytimes.com
Article on Galileo's "relics" from the NY Times - the irony is pretty rich - Galileo as saint, when the church called him a heretic for centuries.