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The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha Nihad Daidzic Though long thought of asOn the night of March 18, 1655, two Spanish friars broke into a church to steal the bones of the founder of their religious institution, the Order of the Most Holy Trinity. This book investigates this little known incident of relic theft and the lengthy legal case that followed, together with the larger questions that surround the remains of saints in seventeenth century Catholic Europe. Drawing on a wealth of manuscript and print sources from the