medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
For those who may have missed it. a late antique Roman sarcophagus (said in one account to be from ca. 410) containing a skeleton has been found underneath St-Martin-in-the-Fields in London. Anonymous researchers are reported as speculating that the head was removed by Victorian workment building a sewer. No one, apparently, is reporeted as speculating that these are the relics of Christian martyr who suffered decapitation and whose acephalic remains were later piously laid to rest in that sarcophagus. How things have changed since the Middle Ages!
Two similar accounts are here, the first with a photo:
http://tinyurl.com/yf8agm
http://tinyurl.com/yz66zn
Best,
John Dillon
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