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This episode briefly introduces St. Galgano Guidotti and his mysterious sword. According to tradition, St. Galgano drove his sword into a stone, perhaps as a dramatic way of renouncing his life as a mercenary or perhaps to mark the site of his conversion. The sword was long dismissed as a pious fraud until scientific examination proved its authenticity in 2001.
By Christopher D. ReiboldThis episode briefly introduces St. Galgano Guidotti and his mysterious sword. According to tradition, St. Galgano drove his sword into a stone, perhaps as a dramatic way of renouncing his life as a mercenary or perhaps to mark the site of his conversion. The sword was long dismissed as a pious fraud until scientific examination proved its authenticity in 2001.