Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe [at the Cleveland Museum of Art Oct. 17] offers visitors a unique glimpse of the Middle Ages, a time when art mediated between heaven and earth and wondrous objects filled churches and monastic treasuries. Relics—the physical remains of holy men and women, and things associated with them—were especially important to the development of Christianity, which emerged as a powerful new religion in the Late Roman world.]
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