{"id":82005,"date":"2009-12-14T21:17:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T02:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"142 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2009-12-14T21:17:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T02:17:48","slug":"relics-in-the-basilica-of-san-dominico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/82005","title":{"rendered":"Relics in the Basilica of San Dominico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/europe\/italy\/regione-emilia-romagna\/provincia-di-bologna\/bologna\">Bologna<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/europe\/italy\">Italy<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/memento-mori\/relics-and-reliquaries\">Relics and Reliquaries<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This celebrated baroque Basilica is quite large, and as one wanders the echoing church they will find a number of relics sprinkled throughout. <\/p>\n<p>The relic of St. Dominic is found in the form of his skull, encased in a decorative gold reliquary atop an alter. At the far end of the church lays the spectacularly fresh looking Blessed James of Ulm.<\/p>\n<p>At first, the full figure in the glass coffin appears to be the very fresh face of an mummified relic, but he is in fact a wax figure. His true remains are kept in a discrete urn nearby. To the left of the coffin, hanging on the wall is what also appears to be actual mummified remains, in this case of Ven. Serafino Capponi, a noted theologian. Capponi is posed with his head tilted lifelessly to one side, holding a cross in his brown withered hands. But this too is an illusion. The bust is actually papier-mach\u00e9, although it is said to cover his true remains. <\/p>\n<p>However the church is not without true relics, in fact it has a whole room full of them. At the back of the church is a small reliquary museum full of real bodily bits of saints. The glass cases are full with mummified finger relics in fantastically ornate reliquaries, alongside a wide collection of stunning monstrances, chalices and works of macabre bone art. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/865109712_ed19577cae.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"230\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bologna, Italy | Relics and Reliquaries This celebrated baroque Basilica is quite large, and as one wanders the echoing church they will find a number of relics sprinkled throughout. The relic of St. Dominic is found in the form of his skull, encased in a decorative gold reliquary atop an alter. At the far end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}