Corpus Christi Basilica
Gothic brick church raised over a marsh where a stolen host was said to shine, later stripped bare by invading soldiers.
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This guide to Corpus Christi Basilica in Kraków opens with two thieves in the thirteen thirties, fleeing across a marsh outside the city with a stolen gilded monstrance they thought was solid gold. It follows the glow that appeared over that swamp afterward, the builder king who vowed to raise a brick church there, and the sixteen fifty-five Swedish occupation that stripped the church bare and locked its monks in a single cell. Look for the boat-shaped pulpit riding on carved mermaids near the altar.
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