Relics and Reliquaries in France

His "Lionheart" is entombed separately from the rest of his body.

Perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints, with a little help from Paris.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

Celebrate the end of the Great French Wine Blight with a festival of kissing.

The huge golden reliquary of a testicle-smashing saint.

When the imprisoned pope's remains were finally returned to the Vatican, his heart stayed behind in France.

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.