A long revered relic is found to be Europe’s oldest surviving wooden statue

For centuries, in a picturesque Tuscan town near the Mediterranean coast, legions of pilgrims came to venerate one of Christendom’s most treasured relics — an 8-foot tall wooden crucifix known as the “Volto Santo de Lucca.”

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