When I was in Italy a few years ago, I visited the Basilica of St. Anthony where, proudly exhibited, was St. Anthony’s larynx, the cartilage of which, I was assured, is still incorrupt. I came away from the viewing with the satisfaction inherent in having seen something unusual, if not macabre. Perhaps because I am not a Catholic or perhaps because I was deemed unworthy by the petrified organ, I did not find myself especially edified.
Others, more pious than I, were genuflecting and raising their eyes to heaven.
There is nothing new under the sun, so now we have a 21st century relic: John Lennon’s tooth; the sacred molar is to be placed on 
the altar of Ebay where it will receive contemporary homage, possibly to the tune of three figures:
One of John Lennon’s teeth is expected to make £10,000 when it is auctioned next month.
The tooth was given to the former Beatles’ house keeper Dot Jarlett when she worked for him at Kenwood mansion in Surrey in the late 1960s.
He told her to give it her daughter “as a souvenir” after he had pulled it out in the kitchen of the Weybridge property.
The tooth will be auctioned in Stockport on 5 November.
Dot’s son Barry Jarlett said: “He was in the kitchen and he had this tooth which he had wrapped in a piece of paper.
“He said: ‘Dot will you dispose of this’ and then he said: ‘Or, as your daughter’s a Beatles fan, you can give to her as a souvenir’.
