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CadaverFormosus

Alias: Elizabeth Harper. I write about bodies, bones, relics, lore & oddities from the Catholic Church. Order of the Good Death member. Lighting designer by night. Follow me on Twitter @cadaverformosus or on Facebook as All the Saints You Should Know. (That's St. Paula Frassinetti on the right. The photo was insisted upon and taken by a nun. It's cool.)

www.allthesaintsyoushouldknow.com

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Photographing the Real Bodies of Incorrupt Saints

The Oracles of Rome: Two Architectural Oddities Predict the Apocalypse

September 19, 2014

LA's Patron Saint is a Third-Century Martyr in a Postmodern Tomb

August 11, 2014

Today Me, Tomorrow You: Rome's Sculptural Skeletons

Why Figures Swarmed with Toads Lurk on Middle Ages Cathedrals

french revolution

Terror-Stricken in Paris: A Crypt of Bloodstains and Bones

Sinless Sweets: Where and When to Eat the Ten Best Saintly Desserts

Brno is the New Sedlec: Europe's Most Macabre Destination Gets a Rival of 50,000 Skeletons

The (Really) Great Gig in the Sky

The Femme Fatale Whose Tragic End Festers in the History of Rome

The Mummies of Mexico City

The Cadaver Synod: When a Pope's Corpse Was Put on Trial

Magic and Your Lizard Brain: The Mind Tricks behind Conjuring Ghosts

February 24, 2014

Revealing the Hidden History of Paris Through Its Bits and Pieces of Saints

December 31, 2013

A Thief's Severed Arm and a Count Buried Alive, All in One Prague Church

October 15, 2013

Documenting the Holy Dead Through Saints' Relics