Of course, as with any great church of the Middle Ages, the remodeled abbey church at Saint-Denis was packed with jeweled ornaments, fine sculptures, expensive wax candles, relics including the iron neck collar that had shackled Saint Denis himself before his martyrdom, and secular treasures such as a necklace that had belonged to Queen Nanthilda, whose husband, King Dagobert, was believed to have been the abbey’s first benefactor.
