Sudden death : medicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome / by Maria Pia Donato ; translated by Valentina Mazzei.

Heavenly bodies : cult treasures & spectacular saints from the catacombs / Paul Koudounaris.

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Sudden death : medicine and religion in eighteenth-century Rome / by Maria Pia Donato ; translated by Valentina Mazzei.

Heavenly bodies : cult treasures & spectacular saints from the catacombs / Paul Koudounaris.