Theodore Tiron

They liberated some holy bones.

In this case, it was the mortal remains of Saint Theodore.

Do you remember the art and culture episode that we did about a year and a half ago about the statue of St. Theodore the Crocodile Slayer, better known to the Venetians as Tororo? Well, it's that guy, apparently.

The bones made their way back to Venice ten years later thanks to the brother of the Venetian captain who led the raid.

If you'd like to go and pay your respects, the bones can still be venerated today in the Church of San Salvador, barely a minute's walk from the Rialto Bridge.

For the sake of completeness, we should add that two other Italian locations have claimed to have parts of the same saint, Florence, which has one of his ribs, and Rome.

In England, Saint Theodore's remains can be found at Thorny in Cambridgeshire, although some stories say that that's a different Saint Theodore.

Clairvaux and Paris, both in France, claim some of Theodore's bones as does El Escoral, near the Spanish capital of Madrid.