page_title: Theodore the Martyr
section_title: Elsewhere
hierarchical_section_title: Theodore the Martyr / Relics / Elsewhere
context_page_description: Theodore the Martyr was the name of a number of Christian saints. Two of the best known, Theodore of Amasea and Theodore Stratelates, were probably the same person. A variety of stories are told about Theodore the Martyr. Relics of Theodore the Martyr, including at least four bodies as well as body parts, were taken to Venice, where he is one of the patron saints, or to other places in Western Europe.
context_section_description: At Thorney, Cambridgeshire, England, a new church was built by Abbott Gunther in 1069. In 1105 relics of Theodore the Martyr were translated to the church.
  John of Glastonbury's Cronica sive Antiquitates Glastoniensis Ecclesie, written in the mid-14th century, recorded that Glastonbury Abbey had relics of Theodore the Martyr.
  During the Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) the German monk Gunther of Pairis obtained a variety of relics, including a trace of the blood of Jesus.
  The collection included a piece of the True Cross, a piece of Saint John the Baptist and the arm of Saint James the Great. 
  There were relics of other saints including Theodore the Martyr.
  The Clairvaux inventory of 1504 included a number of relics including the shoulder blade of Saint Theodore the Martyr.
  The Dames de l'Assomption of rue Saint-Honoré in Paris, who rebuilt their church in 1670 at their own expense, preserved the body of Saint Theodore the Martyr with great veneration. It had been given to them by Cardinal Antonio Barberini, the Archbishop of Rheims.
  Philip II of Spain (1527–1598) was a great collector of relics, and accumulated a huge collection. It included 290 teeth of Saint Apollonia, the patron saint of toothache.
  His successors continued to add to the collection.
  In 1762 it was reported that the body of Saint Theodore the Martyr was lying in a magnificent shrine of silver or brass gilt, adorned with crystals and gems and enameled with gold, in  the monastery of El Escorial near Madrid, Spain.
caption: Glastonbury Abbey once held relics of Theodore
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