by Juan Eslava Galán · Booket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408054412
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«El fraude de la Sábana Santa y las reliquias de Cristo» is Juan Eslava Galán's essay on Christian relics, published by Booket in paperback (360 pages, in Spanish).
The author reviews with a light-hearted tone the huge business of Christian relics: the Holy Foreskins, the Holy Diapers, the splinters of the cross, the Holy Faces, the Holy Thorns, the Holy Grails and other objects venerated for centuries. He also analyzes the case of the Shroud of Turin and how the credulity of the faithful has been used to manufacture and sell false material testimonies of the faith.
Work originally published in 1997 and reissued by Booket in 2004. The author, a doctor of letters, is known for his historical popularization essays and his historical novels.
Intended for readers interested in the history of the Church, the critique of superstitions and historical popularization with a skeptical and entertaining approach.
Juan Eslava Galán, is a Spanish writer of historic genre, both fiction and non-fiction. He has published some of his works under the pen name Nicholas Wilcox.
