The reliquary for the head of St. Servatius commissioned by Emperor Henry III aroused the the anger of the illustrious client, who threw the goldsmiths in prison because the precious stones used for the eyes of the saint made him look cross-eyed. During the night the saint appeared to the emperor, showing him his face and stating that the artists' hands had rendered him as god had made him.
(Jacques le Goff, editor: The Medieval World)
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