Philip and Cuthbert in “Master Builder”

It's gone, smashed. We're finished. You can't rebuild a cathedral without its relic.

A skull's a skull, Philip. We don't even know it was his.

What about the miracles?

I've been praying to that skull for years to save my poor sister from the street. Useless!

It does take belief, too.

Yes, but what if people believe another skull is his? One from the ossuary. There's thousands. And who's to say the monk whose head we choose isn't a saint?

Because that would be a lie!

Not a lie, a... a leavening, a means to an end. And the end is God's glory.