Saints

A historic chapel filled with colorful murals and a colorful past.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

An honorary saint of the people, Maria Adelaide became an incorrupt corpse, the clothes intact, exhaling “a strong scent of roses.”

The relics are stored in a silver reliquary, where they can be seen through glass.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

Trash-filled shrines to an unofficial saint known for her endless breast milk dot the highways of Argentina.

A wax effigy of St. Valentine hides one of the saint's relics.

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.