Team meeting in Munich

This is the skeleton of Saint Munditia, the patron saint of spinsters, jewels cover her naked bones. In her hand she holds a glass container filled with dried blood, a relic of her martyrdom. She is believed to have been matryed in 310 AD, beheaded with a hatchet. Her remains have been here since their transfer from the Roman catacombs in 1675. She was kept hidden in a wooden box from 1804 and put back on display in 1883.

In the little glass case above Munditia, is the skull of Saint Erasmus, the patron saint against intestinal ailments.Lue lisää