“On being shown a relic said to be a bone of St. Elizabeth, he (Sigismund) turned it over and remarked that it could just as well be that of a dead cobbler.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman, book A Distant Mirror

Source: A Distant Mirror (1978), p. 542

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