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Police identify man suspected of theft of Pope John Paul II's blood
Reliquary stolen from cathedral altar in Spoleto, Italy, in September
www.theguardian.com
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Someone stole Pope John Paul II's blood
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More at:
www.theguardian.com
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are you ready to begin your life as a fantasy novel protagonist?
And bones of old saints, utensils they once touched, etc. Gets really close to idolatry.
Apparently they already aprehended a suspect:
Does a pope's blood contain holy water?
Does a pope's blood contain holy water?
Sounds like it. Didn't the ten commandments say something about false idols?
oh boy.
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How bad at Christianity do you have to be to buy a vial of stolen Pope blood?
Like either it has no intrinsic value because you don't believe in the religion, or you do believe in the religion and you clearly should know better than to think God's going to go to bat for you because you've got black market popeblood.
Like either it has no intrinsic value because you don't believe in the religion, or you do believe in the religion and you clearly should know better than to think God's going to go to bat for you because you've got black market popeblood.
Probably comes in handy if the cops ever need a DNA sample in a cold case.
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I'm not sure they keep the blood of all popes. John Paul II is special because he was canonized as Saint John Paul II
Not popes specifically but those considered saints or blessed as relics.
Well, see, you need his blood if you plan to heist the Popemobile. It's the only way the engine starts.
Starring Matt Damon and Nicolas Cage.
Starring Matt Damon and Nicolas Cage.
The whole relic thing that the Catholic church has is fucking weird. The only thing creepier is the communist stuffed leaders body thing.
So if you cloned him, the clone would thus be John Paul III...
Quick, someone tell the Lupin writers!
Quick, someone tell the Lupin writers!
It's a remnant of the ancient cult of the ancestors assimilated by the Church. Ancestor veneration was common in some pagan religions, and Christianity borgified those.
It can be found in both Catholic and Orthodox rites.
The catolic church actually does display the bodies of mummifyed saints because the fact that the corpses didn't rot are supposed to be signs of their holiness. They do all kinds of fucked up shit with corpses.
I misread the title as Papa John's Blood and thought it was pretty par for the course with that guy.
what was the deal with that one pope who just peaced out in a helicopter? that guys still alive. you can just quit being the pope?
Yeah there are a bunch of them in St Peter's. There's one that's completely green. I always enjoy finding the most ludicrous relics, like that one church in Rome that has the bone mosaics.
The reason the communist thing is so ludicrous is that they were supposed to be rejecting religion but then stuffed fucking Lenin.
In retrospect it kind of makes perfect sense that the religion with so much lore about blood would keep vials like these.
But that headline still reads like it came out of a novel.
But that headline still reads like it came out of a novel.
Evangelicals hate Catholics. They think the Pope thinks he's god.