This week we focus on one church, Santa Maria sopra Minerva.
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Some of things mentioned in this episode:
Doesn’t look like much on the outside…
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But it’s gorgeous on the inside!
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Here’s Bernini’s elephant.
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Here’s the room where Saint Catherine died.
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Here’s her tomb below the main altar.
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On her feast day they open it up.
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The relic chapel.
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The relic of Saint Thomas Aquinas and the crowded Annunciation.
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The odd looking reliquaries of Saints Peter and Paul.
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