The Way to Heaven - Relic Veneration in the Middle Ages
While a splinter from the true cross or a bone from the leg of Saint Ursula may not be much to look at, the containers that were obsessively decorated to contain them certainly are. This vast exhibition in the already imposing New Church is made up of artifacts - many of which can be considered priceless - from a time when the faithful regarded holy relics as the greatest possible of treasures because it brought them closer to God. And the closer you were to your buddy God, the further you were from pestilence and disease...
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