Article: Magnificent Corpses: Searching Through Europe for St. Peter's Head, St. Chiara's Heart, St. Stephen's Hand, and Other Saints' Relics.(Pilgrimage)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

By Anneli Rufus. Marlowe & Company, 245 pp., $13.95 paperback

As a ten-year-old on vacation in Spain, Rufus saw her first relic (a vial of desiccated blood) and developed a passion for reading about saints. As a skeptical adult, Rufus set out to visit the shrines of 18 saints whose relics have attracted pilgrims--famous ones like Catherine of Siena and Francis Xavier ...

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