S1 E4 - The Jamestown Reliquary

 

In 2013, archaeologists found a silver box amid the chancel burials at Jamestown. How did such a distinctively Catholic artifact end up in a place of honor at what was thought to be a staunchly Protestant settlement? Who is the saint whose relics spent 400 years in the Virginia tidewater, and what does the discovery of the Jamestown reliquary imply about the early English settlement of North America?

 

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