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Christian martyrs' bones are hidden inside a 1,000-year-old church.
In the heat of summer, 813 Christians huddled in the crypt of their local cathedral. They took the eucharist and waited to be sawn in half by the Turks attacking their village. What's left of them is now behind the altar. 128 Ottoman ships landed on the shores of Otranto in July of 1480, as the first plan of attack in taking over Italy. It was a bloody attack. The Otrantians put up a fight but they were no match for the Ottomans, who went from house to house, looting, murdering, and setting afire everything in their path.
