When people still put their faith in the Lord God and his ground staff, the Catholic Church offered a wide range of saints and relics for sale for the sake of recovery. Udo Pollmer uses the example of vitamin C to show that today vitamins are rightly the worthy successors of exquisite relics of Christ.
by Udo Pollmer / October 5th, 2018, supplemented in November 2023
Swallowing vitamins has replaced the arduous pilgrimages to relics once visited by the sick in the hope of healing. Today, vitamin cocktails promise...