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Get ready to update your PayPal account.\u00a0 Now you can own some priceless religious objects \u2014 for a price.<\/p>\n

From the Associated Press: <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A lavishly jeweled cross and a ring once owned by Pope Paul VI are heading to auction on eBay.<\/p>\n

The items have turned up at a U.S. store owned by a Southern Baptist with a flair for self-promotion. It\u2019s the latest stop on a strange journey involving luminaries ranging from UN Secretary General U Thant to Evel Knievel, and which began with Paul VI\u2019s novel decision to allow some of his jewelry to be sold to raise money for charity.<\/p>\n

One of the items is a pectoral cross, given to clergy who attain the rank of bishop or higher to signify their office. The pope\u2019s donation was a testament to his willingness to engage the contemporary world by de-emphasizing the importance of such regalia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is new for me,\u201d said jewelry store owner Alan Perry, who thinks the items might fetch $800,000 to $900,000 at auction. \u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019re going to put it up on eBay. It\u2019s only worth what someone\u2019s willing to pay for it, and eBay might be a good measure to see if people are interested.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perry was enlisted by a widow whose husband had bought the ring and cross in the 1970s. A New York firm had tried to sell the items for $1.25 million, but hadn\u2019t been able to find a buyer. After serving on the board of a local charity with Perry, the woman asked if he would try his luck.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe came in with all this paperwork and with the cross and ring, and I just said, \u2018Holy mackerel,'\u201d Perry said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time that his store, Perry\u2019s Emporium, has made headlines. Perry appeared on ABC\u2019s Good Morning America after he vowed last year to refund the cost of jewelry bought over a two-week period in Asheville, a city in the North Carolina mountains had three inches (8 centimetres) of snow on Christmas. It did, and he paid out roughly $400,000 that was covered by insurance.<\/p>\n

He plans to put the cross and ring on public display starting April 14 through Holy Week with an armed guard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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