Segal A. [Paleopathology of the relics of Saint Albert of Louvain].
HISTOIRE DES SCIENCES MEDICALES 2001;
32:115-22. [PMID:
11637009]
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Abstract
The author recounts St. Albert of Lowen's story who was slaughtered in Reims in 1192 and after buried inside the cathedral's nave. During 1612, at request of the Archduke and Archduchess of Brabant, the King of France and the Reims Archbishop conceded the translation of the relics to Brussels. However an error on the burial place was revealed more ever by the consequences of the Great War. Indeed, the architect Henri Deneux found the genuine tomb of Albert of Lowen. The Belgian people had received the mortal remains of Archbishop Odalric about who skull examination indicated also a traumatic lesion but the death circumstances are ignored. The error of the Reims Cathedral's Canons may be explained by various modifications and above the later transformation, particularly those of the rood-screen.
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