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アマルフィの守護聖人は十二使徒の一人のSaint Andrew（聖アンデレ）ですが、ウィキペディアによると、
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Andrew
The purported relics of the Apostle Andrew are kept at the Basilica of St Andrew in Patras, Greece; the Duomo di Sant'Andrea, Amalfi, Italy; St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland; and the Church of St Andrew and St Albert, Warsaw, Poland. There are also numerous smaller reliquaries throughout the world.
St Jerome wrote that the relics of St Andrew were taken from Patras to Constantinople by order of the Roman emperor Constantius II around 357 and deposited in the Church of the Holy Apostles. The head of the saint was given by the Byzantine despot Thomas Palaeologus to Pope Pius II in 1461. It was enshrined in one of the four central piers of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.
だそうですね。
ただ、この文章と、少し後に続くアマルフィがらみの文章との関係がいまひとつ分かりません。
In 1208, following the sack of Constantinople those relics of St Andrew which remained in the imperial city were taken to Amalfi, Italy, by Pedro, cardinal of Capua, a native of Amalfi.
The Amalfi cathedral (Duomo), dedicated to St Andrew (as is the town itself), contains a tomb in its crypt that it maintains still contains the rest of the relics of the apostle.
On 8 May 2008 the relic believed to be Andrew's head was returned to Amalfi Cathedral.
いったい、Saint Andrewの遺体の、具体的にどの部分がどのように移転したのか。
リンク先のブログはある程度整合的な説明をしていますが、いまひとつすっきりしないですね。
もちろん、各地に伝わる聖遺物の伝承・伝説を、すべて整合性が取れるように理解する必要があるはずもありませんが。
http://idlespeculations-terryprest.blogspot.com/2006/11/skull-of-saint-andrew.html
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