Tag  |  relics

our own making?

As a teacher, I find the Middle Ages to be both fascinating and disconcerting. A fixed pillar of the literary canon, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales vividly shows the reliance of humanity on the outward practices at the expense of the inward heart.

In my 21st-century, biblically literate mind, I wonder how people could become so dependent on having relics for their…

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