St peters church was built in the early 1300s
it is incredible in its baroque archetecture and gold detail every where
my main aim in visiting was to see the relics of St Munditia The patron saint of “spinsters”. The skeleton lies in a gilt glass coffin lined with red velvet, her bones have been Sewn into a transparent body stocking and then studed somehow with large jewels and pearls and gold, with glass eyes staring on. her remains have been here since their transfer from the Roman catacombs in 1675. In her hand she holds a glass container filled with dried blood, a relic of her martyrdom from her beheading in 310 AD
It was actually really creepy, this bejewlling skeletons is not uncommon in Germany. What does this about the value of the jewel? do these skeletons perform a function to the church as macabre, life size souvenirs?
it is incredible in its baroque archetecture and gold detail every where
my main aim in visiting was to see the relics of St Munditia The patron saint of “spinsters”. The skeleton lies in a gilt glass coffin lined with red velvet, her bones have been Sewn into a transparent body stocking and then studed somehow with large jewels and pearls and gold, with glass eyes staring on. her remains have been here since their transfer from the Roman catacombs in 1675. In her hand she holds a glass container filled with dried blood, a relic of her martyrdom from her beheading in 310 AD
It was actually really creepy, this bejewlling skeletons is not uncommon in Germany. What does this about the value of the jewel? do these skeletons perform a function to the church as macabre, life size souvenirs?