Category: Relics

The Wood of the Cross
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The Wood of the Cross

The Nicolaian Citadel is one of the places that houses some fragments of the so-called “Instruments of the Passion”, found according to tradition by Helen, mother of the Emperor Constantine. These relics, particularly venerated and historically controversial, would be the objects used for the crucifixion of Christ: the True Cross, the nails, the Crown of...

The bones of St. Nicholas
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The bones of St. Nicholas

When in 1087 the sixty-two sailors stole the bones of St. Nicholas to bring them to Bari, part of the relics were already scattered around the world. The Nicolaian Citadel preserves only the Saint’s larger bones, equal to about 65% of the skeleton, because they are easier to pick up and transport. The smaller bones...

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