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Reach Out and Touch Faith
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Rest In Beauty: an Interview with Swide Magazine
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The Passion of Holy Week
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The Days of the Dead: A Dispatch from Rome
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Our Adored Cadavers
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The Sculptural Skeletons of Rome: As Seen in Slate
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The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead: A Profile for Virginia Commonwealth University
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Crocodile Prayers
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If you’re not bleeding on this year’s Met Gala red carpet, you’re not doing it right.
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The Mummies of Mexico City
How to Tell if Your Saint is Incorrupt
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Video: How to Tell if Your Saint is Incorrupt
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An Interview with Vice Italia: The Saints of Rome Who Almost Seem Alive
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Corpse Theatre
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Appetite for Destruction
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"Despite His Extraordinary Fatness"
  "There are more tombs than dead in this city. I imagine that the deceased, when they feel too warm in their marble resting places, glide into another than has remained empty, as a sick man is moved from one bed to another. One would believe he hear
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Quote of the Moment
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“Eat Well, Poop a Lot, and Don’t be Afraid of Death” – Traditional Catalan Saying
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Photographing the Real Bodies of Incorrupt Saints: As Seen in Slate
Crypt at Chiesa Madre in Fiumedinisi. From Universitá degli Studi di Pisa
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Consider the Putridarium
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Sinless Sweets: Where and When to Eat the Ten Best Saintly Desserts
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The Catacomb Saint of Manhattan: As Seen in Hyperallergic
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The Mesmerizing Skeletons of Rome: As Seen in Swide Magazine
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All Saints' Way
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The Rapist of Santa Maria in Trastevere
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The Oracles of Rome: Two Architectural Oddities Predict the Apocalypse
  "When we have once known Rome, and left her where she lies, like a long-decaying corpse, retaining a trace of the noble shape it was, but with accumulated dust and a fungous growth overspreading all its more admirable features, left her in utter we
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Hilda's Tower
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The Mysteries of Saint Cristina
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Voodoo Lady: A Culture Clash in New York
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50 Ways to Make Your Martyr
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Hang on St. Christopher
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Beatrice Cenci: Martyr, Muse, Murderer
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A Palm Sunday Legend
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The Cadaver Synod or That Time We Put a Corpse on Trial
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A Makeover for LA's Patron Saint
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Transi Tombs: Living Up Front, Dead Man's Party Out Back
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Miss World
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Terror-Stricken in Paris: A Crypt for Bloodstains and Bones
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The (Really) Great Gig in the Sky
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Buried Alive
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The Thief's Severed Arm
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Bless Thou! Thou Art Translated!
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They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To: The Flying, Stigmatic Saint from the 1960s
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The Other Kind of Mortification
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St. Ursula and Her 11,000 BFFs
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Decoding Our Lady of Sorrows in Mexico City
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The (Not Really So Very) Incorrupt Corpses
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The Measure of Things
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The Saint and The Satanist
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Hurricane Sandy Edition: A Look at Some Saints on Candles Bought at a Bed-Stuy Bodega
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Let's Go to Brno!
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The Saint at Death's Door
We're Here to Ruin SANTA.
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Ruining Christmas