Are You Putting a Woman in Wax in the Church?

i was looking at a book titled medici women by gabriel langdon. It deals, you know, predominently with women in the powerful house of medici family. The italian banking family and political dynasty of the time. There's a section in their talking about how the medici family used boti that they were not meant to be burnt in the church. They were there as a magical presence in these particular churches. And there they could last for decades.