This was one of the relics in St Peter's, Rome - given a prominent site
in one of the piers supporting the central dome (along with the head of St
Andrew, the Cloth of Veronica, and the true cross (or part of it) found by
St Helena) in the rebuilding of the sixteenth/seventeenth centuries.
Georgia Clarke
Courtauld Institute of Art
London
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