Church of the Annunciation
Oldest surviving church in the Old Town, holding a martyr's mummified body in a glass reliquary.
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This guide to the Church of the Annunciation, the Franciscan church in Bratislava's Old Town, follows Reparatus, a fourth-century Christian deacon, and the eighteenth-century friar who sent to Rome asking for his body. It touches the medieval king who saw the church consecrated and the earthquake that reshaped its ceiling. Best heard standing in front of the glass reliquary.
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