Edmund Rich's severed arm is in Connecticut

Road trip???

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Your attention, please, New England readers and potential road-trippers.

The withered, bony arm of the 13th-century archbishop of Canterbury is resting on a gold pillow on a small island off the coast of Mystic, Connecticut.

Saint Edmund’s Retreat, on the 11-acre Enders Island, was founded by an order of priests and brothers who fled anti-Catholicism in France a century ago. With them, they brought the saint’s severed arm.

Today, visitors can not only attend daily mass in the company of an 800-year-old human limb but, at the adjoining Sacred Art Institute, take intensive workshops about Gregorian chant and illuminated manuscripts.

We’ve gotta go!