Saint's bones for lack of worship remove themselves from church. (Cf. D1641.)

Motif

Saint's bones for lack of worship remove themselves from church. (Cf. D1641.)

Religion. · Religious edifices and objects. · Sacred relics. · view the constellation · filed as V143

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general Alphabet No. 679.

Within the index

Filed under Sacred relics.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Saint's bones miraculously removed from reliquary broken in pillage Relics (images) carried away return to their original church

Filed beside it

Angel reveals (buried) relics to saint Saint's relics miraculously recovered A cow licks the stone under which the secreted body of saint is buried Testing the authenticity of relics: bones are cast into fire; with great noise they jump away from the flames Possession of relic brings prosperity, its loss sickness Devout possessor of false relics miraculously receives authentic ones Belief in miraculous powers of sacred relics

Travels with

Object removes itself

wander