Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Macabre

Reliquiary with the arm of Saint Francis Xavier, Church of the Gesù, Rome

Reliquiary with the arm of Saint Francis Xavier
Church of the Gesù
Piazza del Gesù
Rome, May 2010

5 comments:

  1. Ah...I was going to say something rather nasty, but I'll not do that. I'll just say that the superstitions of the religious are beyond belief sometimes (if that makes sense?)

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  2. I loved this church, and had heard about the ceiling. I missed the arm, but maybe not as much as St. Francis does.

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  3. I am fascinated by les reliquaires. They never fail to astound me.

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  4. It's beautiful but you named it just right. All reliquiaries are truly macabre!

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