The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha Jane Oakhill Future Faith: Ten Challenges Reshaping

Future Faith: Ten Challenges Reshaping the Practice of Christianity

Elizabeth Moodey

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The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha Jane Oakhill Future Faith: Ten Challenges ReshapingOn the night of March 18, 1655, two Spanish friars broke into a church to steal the bones of the founder of their religious institution, the Order of the Most Holy Trinity. This book investigates this little known incident of relic theft and the lengthy legal case that followed, together with the larger questions that surround the remains of saints in seventeenth century Catholic Europe. Drawing on a wealth of manuscript and print sources from the