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The Treasure of Saint Denis

Reliquary containing John the Baptist's Shoulder Bone


Images

Adapted from Félibien, Plate II, Item E

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Texts


Description

Reliquary of gold vermeil in which is enclosed a shoulder bone of Saint John the Baptist. It is held that this relic was sent by the Emperor Heraclitus to King Dagobert I, who gave it to the church of Saint Denis.

Félibien, pages 538-9. Translated by Jane Vadnal.


Subsequent History

Disappeared during French Revolution


Bibliography

Conway (1915), p 127. Click here for Text

Félibien, pages 538-9.

Montesquiou-Fezensac, I and II, no. 22. III, pp 7-8.,


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