Basilique Saint-Bonaventure de Lyon
Gothic-era Franciscan church holding a small relic once venerated by kings and craft guilds alike.
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This guide to the Basilique Saint-Bonaventure in Lyon centers on a small relic above the altar and the cardinal who died in this city during a church council in 1274. It traces the reliquary's long afterlife, from pilgrims who believed the bone fragment could heal or protect, to King Charles the Eighth's gift of a lavish new case in 1494, through the church's plunder during the Wars of Religion and its stripping during the Revolution. Seventeen craft guilds, from cloth cutters to boatmen, each built a chapel along these walls, sheltering under Bonaventure's own roof.
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