Catholic relics

Saint Clair's Golden Locks

In 2009, a famous tour came to London. Every day for several weeks, people queued in their thousands, huddled into little groups and raising flimsy umbrellas against the old city’s autumnal drizzle. Big Ben chimed another hour gone, the sun began to retreat behind clouds, but still, they waited, inching…

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Art historian Paul Koudounaris hunted down and photographed dozens of gruesome skeletons in some of the world's most secretive religious establishments.

It’s hard to fathom now but there was a time (specifically, ninth-century Holy Roman Empire) when the bones of Christian martyrs provoked the same kind of...

Jesus Christ’s crown of thorns was among prized relics saved from the inferno in Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, but how did it get there?

An art historian hailed as ‘Indiana Bones’ has cast light on centuries-old jewel-encrusted skeletons held in churches across Europe in his book ‘Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs’. - See more at: http://www.italymagazine.com/news/heavenly-bodies-book-examines-skeletons-roman-catacombs#sthash.NlLzOiOz.dpuf

Relic of the skull of St. John Chrysostom (died ca. 407.) His left ear remains incorrupt (not decaying.) Witnesses say the Apostle Paul appeared and spoke into St. John's ear ear as he wrote Athos commentaries on St. Paul's epistles.

On January 7, the Orthodox Church [new claendar] celebrates the Synaxis of John the Baptist and the translation of his right hand from Antioch to Constantinople. According to the Church’ traditio…