Amy Surak, the archivist at Manhattan College, in the Bronx, is sifting and sorting through thousands of boxes of relics from shuttered Catholic institutions, Eric Lach writes.
Surak, wearing a sundress and holding a carabiner jangling a dozen keys, went down an airless stairway to a cavernous basement, where she works. As she unlocked a door, she apologized again, for the state of her office. Every surface was covered with papers, photographs, books, manila envelopes, Bankers Boxes, Rolodexes, binders, CDs, and cassettes. “I’m not a hoarder, but I’ve just been inundated with things,” she said.
“If you’ve ever been to the Sistine Chapel, or at least seen Michelangelo’s panels on the ceiling, the center panel, where God and man are almost touching, that’s the sort of liminal space where these exist.” Surak has had inquiries from people interested in acquiring the relics, or at least coming to worship them. Many were once kept in priests’ pockets or sewn into clothing, as talismans.
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