An irreverent curiosity

In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddest Town

by David Farley

2009 291 pages eng

A tour through the centuries and through a bizarre Italian town in search of an unbelievable relic: the foreskin of Jesus ChristIn December 1983, a priest in the Italian hill town of Calcata shared shocking news with his congregation: The pride of their town, the foreskin of Jesus, had been stolen. …