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    A bit of manger? St Nicholas's bone? The greatest medieval Christmas relics

    William the Conqueror endowed Battle Abbey with many religious treasures to atone for bloodshed
    by Mark Brown Arts correspondent Dec 18, 2019 2 minutes
    Battle Abbey has the greatest collection of relics out of any of England’s religious sites, research reveals. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

    If a medieval pilgrim was looking for the most extraordinary collection of festive relics – a fragment from the manger, perhaps, or a finger bone of St Nicholas – then the place to go was an abbey built to commemorate one of England’s fiercest battles.

    has revealed new research into its property but it was once one of the most

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