Every time you visit Wikipedia.org, there is a “featured article” concerning some random subject. Today’s was about the “Holy Prepuce” (or Holy Foreskin). An amusing paragraph from the article:<\/p>\n
Apart from its physical importance as a relic, the Holy Foreskin appeared in a famous vision of Saint Catherine of Siena<\/a>. In the vision, Jesus mystically marries her, and his amputated foreskin is given to her as a wedding ring.<\/p>\n During the late 17th century<\/a>, Catholic scholar and theologian Leo Allatius<\/a> in De Praeputio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Diatriba<\/em> (“Discussion concerning the Prepuce of our Lord Jesus Christ”<\/em>) speculated that the Holy Foreskin may have ascended into Heaven at the same time as Jesus himself and might have become the rings of Saturn<\/a>, then only recently observed by telescope.<\/p>\n Voltaire<\/a>, in A Treatise of Toleration<\/a><\/em> (1763<\/a>), ironically referred to veneration<\/a> of the Holy Foreskin as being one of a number of superstitions that were “much more reasonable… than to detest and persecute your brother”. [1]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every time you visit Wikipedia.org, there is a “featured article” concerning some random subject. Today’s was about the “Holy Prepuce” (or Holy Foreskin). An amusing paragraph from the article: Allegorical importance Apart from its physical importance as a relic, the … Continue reading