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St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull just went on tour − here’s what the medieval saint himself would have said about its veneration

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par Therese Cory, Associate Professor of Thomistic Studies, University of Notre Dame

Once, on a road trip in Greece, I stopped with my husband and dad at a centuries-old Orthodox monastery to view its famous frescoes. We were in luck, the porter said: It was a feast day. The relics of the monastery’s saintly founder were on view for public veneration.

As a Catholic and a medievalist, I can never resist meeting a new saint. The relic, it turned out, was the saint’s hand, though without any special ornament or reliquary, the ornate containers in which relics are often displayed. Nothing…

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