The head of St. Catherine of Siena, who died in 1380, is on display in a reliquary in Siena’s church of San Domenico. The relic is slightly ghoulish, though in remarkably good shape for being more than six hundred years old. A thumb of Catherine’s is also exposed for veneration in a case nearby. The rest of her body lies in Rome, in a tomb in the Dominican church of Santa M (...)
April 20, 2011
Books
The Rest of Her
Catherine of SienaA Passionate LifeDon BrophyBlueBridge, $24.95, 288 pp.
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