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Three churches display John the Baptist severed head

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Unless this particular desert wanderer was secretly a hydra, the math here does not check out. At least three separate major tourist destinations display a dusty skull on a velvet pillow, vehemently insisting that theirs is the one true decapitated head. It is the ultimate souvenir scam.

Three churches display John the Baptist severed head
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