Dem Bones

It may be an amazing Reliquary rediscovered in 1984 after being buried under the chapel floor of Bechov castle after WWII when Germans were evicted from Czech republic, but it's hard to believe the bones inside truly belong to St. John the Baptist.

However the bones inside the reliquary at the Tepla Premonstratensian monastery were sure to be genuine. The magnificent library and church were untouched during the communist era but the rest of the huge complex was used by Czech soldiers. It has now been refurbished to conference facility standards.