Wax face and the original bone. Relics of of Saint Clementiane in the Capuchin crypt in Brno, Czech Republic.

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Wax face and the original bone. Relics of of Saint Clementiane in the Capuchin crypt in Brno, Czech Republic. Saint Clementiane was a Roman noblewoman who died during the official persecution of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Her bones were fixed in the artificial figure with wax face lying in the glass sarcophagus. Small container with Saint Clementiane’s blood is beside her legs.

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