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A man suffering from mental illness or epilepsy is held up in front of an altar on which is a reliquary with the face of Christ, several lame men are also at the altar in the hope of a miracle cure. Watercolour.

An Irish bronze reliquary in the form of a human arm, made to house an arm of Saint Lachtin. Etching by James Basire.

Ricognizione del corpo di S. [i.e. Sant'] Antonio di Padova : studi storici e medico-antropologici / a cura di Virgilio Meneghelli e Antonino Poppi.

Les reliques et les images légendaires / P. Saintyves.

Relics and remains / edited by Alexandra Walsham.

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Reliquaries

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Ricognizione del corpo di S. [i.e. Sant'] Antonio di Padova : studi storici e medico-antropologici / a cura di Virgilio Meneghelli e Antonino Poppi.

A man suffering from mental illness or epilepsy is held up in front of an altar on which is a reliquary with the face of Christ, several lame men are also at the altar in the hope of a miracle cure. Watercolour.

An Irish bronze reliquary in the form of a human arm, made to house an arm of Saint Lachtin. Etching by James Basire.

Les reliques et les images légendaires / P. Saintyves.

Relics and remains / edited by Alexandra Walsham.