The most spectacular, he says, are found in Melk Abbey, Austria, where the bejeweled remains of St. Friedrich, in a relaxed pose, appear to be art for art’s sake. “The relics of St. Friedrich in Melk ...
on a thin strip of parchment in the library archive of the baroque Melk Abbey on the banks of the Danube in Austria’s Wachau Valley. Measuring 22cm by 1.5cm, the fragment was discovered wrapped ...