Sunday, September 26, 2010

Dead Hand of Don Bosco

...Or, why being RC rocks.

"Hey getting out of school to see a mummified hand is so cool!"
On Thursday thousands of Catholic school students in St. Petersburg paraded across town in festive tee shirts to see the relics, specifically the wax corpse and actual mummified hand of long dead Saint Don Bosco.  Please review the video & story from St. Pete Times before you proceed. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHeBeHJNgU0

http://www.tampabay.com/news/religion/saint-don-boscos-relics-arrive-in-st-petersburg/1123752

Frankly I dig a religion whose leader sports red Prada loafers, and still adheres to pagan druid magic.  Hey you couldn't pay me to be a "Free Methodist." No flair or phun in that religion.  Okay some things about Papistry really suck, like pedastry, Mel Gibson, the Spanish Inquisition, 2nd class status of women, etc.  But bleeding statues coming to life, incense, stigmata, Madonna & GaGa in one lifetime, and the normalcy of owning a cat o' nine tails-- I ask you,  what's not to like?

5 comments:

  1. What is on the T-shirt worn by the schoolkids? Is it the mummified hand?

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  2. I've sold a couple of reliquaries on eBay along with dozens of medals and rosaries. Obviously, I am not nor have ever been Catholic.

    Did you see the old PI vid Maher played this week of O'Donnell? She was saying that evolution couldn't be true because monkeys would still be evolving...

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  3. Thanks for asking Vonda. According to the Tampa Tribune the students were wearing "green, blue and yellow [t-shirts], all emblazoned with the same imprint of Basco's face, which commemorated what is being called the saint's worldwide relic pilgrimage." Click below to see a picture of Don Bosco. I would go out with him, if was alive, and not a priest.

    http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/sep/23/231719/thousands-expected-for-todays-procession-veneratin/

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  4. Claire: Have you been exhuming body parts and selling them on e-bay?

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