“Of all religions,” writes medievalist Robert Bartlett, “Christianity is the one most concerned with dead bodies.”1 True, but why, and how soon after the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus did this practice take hold? We begin with the obvious: there are no relics of Jesus, because His body dwells in glory. We next must turn figures of the New Testament…
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