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Relics were an early form of mass tourism. Every European city wanted in on the lucrative pilgrimage industry so they cut up the bodies of saints. The Catholic
by MomoXenosaga 4y ago
Relics were an early form of mass tourism. Every European city wanted in on the lucrative pilgrimage industry so they cut up the bodies of saints.
The Catholic church has a lot of Saints that nobody even knows about anymore.
- anshumankmr 4y agoHmm but what about the early 1100s? I don't think there was a middle class at the time, there was the upper class the King or the queenn, their lords, ministers, nobles and knights. Then there was the worker class like peasants, smiths etc.