Those blessed security workers!
Even holy water from the Roman Catholic shrine at Lourdes, France, can’t get by airport security screening passengers for suspicious liquids.
Passengers on a new Vatican-backed charter airline had to hand over containers of water collected at Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral to security officials at the airport in southern France before boarding a return flight to Rome, officials for Mistral Air and the airport said, the Italian news agency Apcom reported.
The pilgrims protested that they had waited in long lines to fill up their bottles with holy water from the grotto.
Airport officials said regulations banning containers with more than 3 ounces of liquid are applied across the board.
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