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Jul. 11th, 2008
(from google.bash)
I've always wondered... if they think they are eating the flesh of their
(son of) god... the question is, which exact part...?
Reminds me of something I read in alt.tasteless too many years ago:
"ObQuestionableTaste: A professor at a recent conference, waxing eloquent
on saints' relics, started going on about how no church could claim to
have a piece of Jesus's body since of course he rose from the grave and
went up to heaven, taking all his body bits with him. I had to interrupt
him to point out that the Holy Foreskin wouldn't have been included in
the Ascension Package. After an embarrassed silence, there ensued a 20
minute discussion of Christ's circumcised choad." -- Jo Miller
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"Foreskin relics began appearing in Europe during the Middle Ages. The earliest recorded sighting came on December 25, 800, when Charlemagne gave it to Pope Leo III when the latter crowned the former Emperor. Charlemagne claimed that it had been brought to him by an angel while he prayed at the Holy Sepulchre, although a more prosaic report says it was a wedding gift from the Byzantine Empress Irene). The Pope placed it into the Sanctum Sanctorum in the Lateran basilica in Rome with other relics."
"Most of the Holy Prepuces were lost or destroyed during the Reformation and the French Revolution.[4]"
"In a 1997 television documentary for Channel 4, British journalist Miles Kington travelled to Italy in search of the Holy Foreskin, but was unable to find any remaining example."
I've always wondered... if they think they are eating the flesh of their
(son of) god... the question is, which exact part...?
Reminds me of something I read in alt.tasteless too many years ago:
"ObQuestionableTaste: A professor at a recent conference, waxing eloquent
on saints' relics, started going on about how no church could claim to
have a piece of Jesus's body since of course he rose from the grave and
went up to heaven, taking all his body bits with him. I had to interrupt
him to point out that the Holy Foreskin wouldn't have been included in
the Ascension Package. After an embarrassed silence, there ensued a 20
minute discussion of Christ's circumcised choad." -- Jo Miller
============================================================================
"Foreskin relics began appearing in Europe during the Middle Ages. The earliest recorded sighting came on December 25, 800, when Charlemagne gave it to Pope Leo III when the latter crowned the former Emperor. Charlemagne claimed that it had been brought to him by an angel while he prayed at the Holy Sepulchre, although a more prosaic report says it was a wedding gift from the Byzantine Empress Irene). The Pope placed it into the Sanctum Sanctorum in the Lateran basilica in Rome with other relics."
"Most of the Holy Prepuces were lost or destroyed during the Reformation and the French Revolution.[4]"
"In a 1997 television documentary for Channel 4, British journalist Miles Kington travelled to Italy in search of the Holy Foreskin, but was unable to find any remaining example."
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