Word: hjortsj
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...anyone can, it is Swedish Anthropologist Carl-Hermann HjortsjÖ. At Sweden's Lund University last week, he was getting ready to publish a paper that explained how he had used his anthropological know-how to make himself a relic detective. He began by identifying several sets of doubtful remains by correlating tradition with such data as ossification of skullcap seams, length of limb and condition of teeth. Then for Swedish saints Anthropologist HjortsjÖ used a new technique. Knowing that medieval Swedes...
ANTHROPOLOGIST HjortsjÖ White are the bones of saints...
...Hjortsjo got permission to investigate the country's holy treasure: a reliquary said to contain the bones of St. Bridget of Sweden, a 14th century mother of eight, noted for her moral example and mysticism.* Among the 25 bits and pieces in the crumbling reliquary in Vadstena Abbey, HjortsjÖ hit a hagiological jackpot: parts of no less than seven men and six women, including St. Bridget's daughter St. Catherine, St. Bridget's confessor Peter of Alvastra, St. Sigfrid, and-without much doubt-St. Bridget herself...
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