Scientists have shown the face of St. Audrey. His remains are hidden in the St. Vitus treasure

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What did St. Audrey look like, whose half-complete skull is part of the St. Vitus treasure? We now know this thanks to scientists who scanned the remains of the former bishop of Prague and created a 3D model of his head. It is the same scientific team that has already created the face of Saint Ludmila.

Saint Adalbert is the main patron of the Archbishopric of Prague. During his tenure at the end of the 10th century, he spoke out against polygamy, the slave trade or alcoholism. Scientists have now presented the approximate form of this saint based on the most modern methods.

“From individual photographs or video footage of the skull, we are able to create an accurate digital model. When we have a digital skull ready, then digital sculpting begins. You can use individual procedures that have been defined by doctors and anthropologists for the last 70 or 80 years and try to create that person’s face just on the basis of that skull,” says geoinformatics scientist Jiří Šindelář.

In addition to the Czechs, scientists from Poland and Brazil also participated in the reconstruction of the saint’s face. The same international team examined the image of Saint Ludmila three years ago. But he also showed how Zdislava from Lemberk, Queen Judith or a girl from the Stone Age, whose remains were found in a cave near Mladče in Olomouc, looked like.

However, the portrait of St. Audrey that they presented is, like the previous ones, only approximate. There are a lot of details that they simply cannot know more than a thousand years after his death.

“We don’t know what color his skin was, we don’t know anything about the color of his eyes. We don’t know anything about how he styled his hair, his beard, if he had any at all. We chose the procedure recommended by our fellow historians, anthropologists and archaeologists,” he explained. reconstruction of Šindelář.

St. Vojtěch was the second bishop of Prague. Even though he was one of the greatest Czechs, he was not a bed of roses. “He even had to leave the protest because he failed to get the Czechs to live the gospel the way he preached it. We can consider his fight against the sale of slaves to be the biggest controversy,” adds Prague Archbishop Jan Graubner.

luk, Lukáš Kubát, TN.cz