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Furtum sacrilegum : the "Holy Heads" of Peter and Paul and their reliquaries in the Lateran

Mondini, Daniela

In: The Basilica of Saint John Lateran to 1600, 2020, p. 345-378

The “Holy Heads” of Peter and Paul, attested in the 11th century within a secondary altar of the Laurentius-Oratory in the Patriarchium Lateranense and later on inside the main altar of the Sancta Sanctorum, increased their status exponentially after having been transferred by Pope Urban V (1368-70) into the Lateran Basilica. Embedded in two huge, lavishly decorated anthropomorphic...