There are also objects the saint used during life: “second class” relics, such as the gloves worn by the Italian mystic Padre Pio. The veneration of relics of saints was already well established in ...
The Missiemuseum in Steyl investigated the origin of the artefacts in the wake of the controversy surrounding a skull from Benin that was sold by an auction house in Amsterdam. Auctioneers De Zwaan ...