The reliquaries for the jaw and tongue of a remarkable preacher.
Tag: Saints
The Real Faces of Saints
Portraits show us what saints looked like.
The Marvelous Preservation of St. Bernadette
Thirty years after her death, the body of St. Bernadette was found in a remarkable state of preservation.
King Arthur in the Lives of the Saints
A surprising portrait of Arthur emerges from the lives of saints
The Adventures of Callistus I, The Pope Who Did Hard Time
A slave who lost the Church’s money, ran away and was captured, was flogged and sentenced to hard labor for starting a fight in a synagogue, faced harsh criticism from some of the leading minds of the early church, endured the first schism, and saw his story written by one of his bitterest enemies.