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Relics and Reliquaries
Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues
Grūtas Park is an open-air museum near a small resort town Druskininkai (about 130 km southwest of capital town Vilnius), with a large collection of Soviet-era statues and an exposition of other... »
Museums and Collections, Relics and Reliquaries | Submitted by mytrips_lt | Updated by Dylan
St. Peter's Church, Munich, Germany
As you enter St. Peter's church bear left, and halfway down the aisle you will find a glass coffin bearing the skeleton of Saint Munditia. Sewn into a transparent body stocking covered with gold... »
Relics and Reliquaries | Submitted by spinkk | Updated by Dylan
This 1000 year old relic-filled cave monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site also hosts an amazing micro-miniature museum
The Kiev Pechersk Lavra in Kiev, Ukraine is many things.
Also known as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, first and foremost it is a a historic Orthodox Christian monastery, built on top of a... »
Miniatures, Microminiature art, Memento Mori, Relics and Reliquaries, Catacombs, Crypts, & Cemeteries, Curious Places of Worship, Subterranean Sites | Submitted by Dylan
Perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints, with a little help from Paris
The undeniably beautiful 130-year-old body of Bernadette Soubirous is displayed in a purpose-built crystal coffin, housed in a chapel at the abbey where she served as a nun. Her uncannily lifelike... »
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A chunk of the 'true cross' is held in this small Portuguese church where modern day exorcisms are said to be common place
Relics of the true cross are a strange thing, and carry with them a Christian legend most Christians have never heard of.
Known as the "Golden Legend," it begins as Adam - as in Adam and Eve -... »
Relics and Reliquaries, Rites and Rituals, Curious Places of Worship
The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint
The patron Saint of Lucca, of servants, and of lost keys lies in rest in the church of San Frediano, dressed and in full view, some 700-plus years after her death in 1272.
Zita is one of the... »
Relics and Reliquaries, Mummies | Submitted by Annetta
Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists
The thing about skulls is that, it can be remarkably hard prove whose they were.
Of course, one can tell things like gender, age, sometimes history of disease or injury from a skull, therefore... »
Strange Science, Unique Collections, Memento Mori, Relics and Reliquaries, Instruments of Science | Submitted by wythe
The real sword in the stone is found not in England, but in an Italian chapel
The legendary sword in the stone, often linked to king Arthur’s legend, does exist. Not in Avalon, of course, but in Italy. One can see it in the Montesiepi chapel, near Saint Galgano Abbey in... »
Relics and Reliquaries | Submitted by giorgiobranca
