Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:37:30 +0200https://english.radio.cz/did-john-baptist-wear-sandals-8565712© 2026 Radio Prague International Petr Hlaváček is a man with a passion for shoes. The dean of Zlín’s Bata University knows the technology of shoe-making inside out. He has reconstructed shoes worn by Oetzi the Ice Man 5,000 years ago and is working on the latest technologies for shoes intended to help diabetic patients, among many other projects. So when Czech experts studied the contents of the St Maurus reliquary said to contain the remains of John the Baptist –among them a small piece of a leather sandal which may have been his – it was only natural that they should turn to the country’s leading shoe expert for help. I spoke to Petr Hlaváček to find out just what he had managed to ascertain. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/4f5197446b1f6808606b2a0aab5e5a67.png?timestamp=1583150525 https://english.radio.cz/did-john-baptist-wear-sandals-8565712 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9