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British sect kept a sealed box waiting for twenty bishops

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The Panacea Society guarded a supposedly world saving wooden box left by a prophetess. The only catch was that it could absolutely only be opened if exactly twenty four Anglican bishops gathered in the same room to request it, which never happened.

British sect kept a sealed box waiting for twenty bishops
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