MARCH 5:  THE CHURCH AT THE MILLENNIUM

The Cult of Relics:

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Reliquaries:

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Reliquary of Saint Foy:

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Accept no cheap imitations! (warning from a Catholic website on the dangers of buying "relics" from unscrupulous dealers)

Lay Piety:  Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela

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Reforming emperors:  Otto of Germany

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Church and state personified:

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Reform through papal power:

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