Relics

A dead saint, a deadly poison, and a mysterious holy ooze.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

The mummified relic of St. Catherine sits forever on a golden throne.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.

A diverse collection of wax, bone, papier-maché and mummified relics.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.