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Europe Trip, August 2007

Driving to Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Aug 14


We left in the morning and set out to visit a couple of basilicas
and monasteries along our route. The first was in Ottobeuren. It was
very gaudy, but the weirdest thing about this church...


...was they had all these "relics" of saints on display, which apparently
includes entire skeletons. This church has been around since 870 A.D., so
apparently pilgrims have been bringing the alleged bones of St. Benedict,
along with others, here to be enshrined. This is what I call all dressed up
with no place to go. It was a bit morbid and creepy.


We ate lunch at a little cafe in Ottobeuren. It was very quiet and pleasant.


We passed into Baden-Wüttermberg and drove up a little back road (part of
it was the "Baroque Way") to see some other churches and abbeys.
This is part of the old wall around Klosterkirche, another Benedictine
monastery at Rot an der Rot.

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