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Not just hands, but entire bodies. Openings for the insertion of body parts
are perhaps the defining feature of saints's shrine bases: survving examples
can be seen, for example, in that of St Osmund at Salisbury cathedral
(probably c1220). Nearly contemporary (late c12) scenes of the shrine base
of Thomas Becket in the Trinity CHapel windows at Canterbury show people
emerging from such holes, though it is hard ot see how they could fit.
The aim was to get one's aiming limbs as near as possible to the saintly
body.
Jon Cannon
... who should really be asleep
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