The announced visit of Pope Leo XIV to Pavia, where he must gather in front of the relics of Saint Augustine, his master to think, brings to light a question rarely posed in a frontal but rare way: what place still occupy the relics in contemporary Christianity? What do they reveal of our relationship to faith, memory and materiality in a world in which the forms of the sacred are increasingly questioned? In Pavia, in the Basilica of San Pietro …
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The announced visit of Pope Leo XIV to Pavia, where he must gather in front of the relics of Saint Augustine, his master to think, brings to light a question rarely posed in a frontal but rare way: what place still occupy the relics in contemporary Christianity? What do they reveal of our relationship to faith, memory and materiality in a world in which the forms of the sacred are increasingly questioned? In Pavia, in the Basilica of San Pietro …