VI.—The Reliquary of St. Petroc and the Ivories of Norman Sicily

Abstract

A little less than 800 years ago the bones of St. Petroc were removed from his priory church in Bodmin by a seditious canon and carried into Brittany. About a year later, after the prior of Bodmin had mobilized his friend, the head of the royal chancery, and through him King Henry II himself, and the regent of Brittany, not without some miraculous interventions by the saint himself, the bones were returned to Bodmin in an ivory casket and solemnly installed again in the priory church by the learned and saintly Bishop Bartholomew.