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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | Holy Relics | PBS

Duration: 03:39
Program: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly #1436
Broadcast Date: May. 6, 2011

We visit the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore to view the exhibition "Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe" and talk with curator Martina Bagnoli, who says praying with the relics of a saint was "a kind of way of channeling your prayer to heaven."

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