Comments on: Relics http://www.thurible.net/20091104/relics/ The Blog of the Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:21:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: giac mcley http://www.thurible.net/20091104/relics/#comment-9924 giac mcley Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:04:04 +0000 http://www.thurible.net/?p=6487#comment-9924 In chapter lxi of the D & F, Edward Gibbon reports that St. Louis, about 1261, bought from the financially distressed Emperor in Constantinople part of the head (this would be from his fourth head?) of John the Cousin of Jesus and placed it in the Sainte Chapelle. The relic was part of a lot containing a chunk of the True Cross, Jesus's baby clothes, the lance and spunge and chain from the Crucifixion, and Moses's rod. In chapter lxi of the D & F, Edward Gibbon reports that St. Louis, about 1261, bought from the financially distressed Emperor in Constantinople part of the head (this would be from his fourth head?) of John the Cousin of Jesus and placed it in the Sainte Chapelle. The relic was part of a lot containing a chunk of the True Cross, Jesus’s baby clothes, the lance and spunge and chain from the Crucifixion, and Moses’s rod.

]]> By: Brian http://www.thurible.net/20091104/relics/#comment-9378 Brian Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:22:00 +0000 http://www.thurible.net/?p=6487#comment-9378 Not too many of these in Australia. Not too many of these in Australia.

]]> By: giac mcley http://www.thurible.net/20091104/relics/#comment-9341 giac mcley Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:35:51 +0000 http://www.thurible.net/?p=6487#comment-9341 Didn't know that there was a head of St. John the Cousin of Jesus in Wadi el Natrun. I have, however, personally seen two of his heads in two different churches in Rome. Didn’t know that there was a head of St. John the Cousin of Jesus in Wadi el Natrun. I have, however, personally seen two of his heads in two different churches in Rome.

]]> By: Lapinbizarre http://www.thurible.net/20091104/relics/#comment-9338 Lapinbizarre Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:36:34 +0000 http://www.thurible.net/?p=6487#comment-9338 The tongue, lower jaw and vocal chords (!!! - the same, presumably, as used for preaching to the fishes) of St Anthony, displayed in the basilica at Padua, made a strong impression on me as an eleven-year-old. Strongly recommended to connoisseurs of the grotesque. King Charles's jubjube is definitely worthy of cult status. Do we know if he had sucked it? The tongue, lower jaw and vocal chords (!!! – the same, presumably, as used for preaching to the fishes) of St Anthony, displayed in the basilica at Padua, made a strong impression on me as an eleven-year-old. Strongly recommended to connoisseurs of the grotesque.

King Charles’s jubjube is definitely worthy of cult status. Do we know if he had sucked it?

]]> By: fr dougal http://www.thurible.net/20091104/relics/#comment-9299 fr dougal Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:55:35 +0000 http://www.thurible.net/?p=6487#comment-9299 Cuthbert and Bede - Durham Augustine - Canterbury Mother Julian - Norwich Mungo -Glasgow Margaret's Cave - Dunfermline Machar - Aberdeen Columba - Iona (& flew to Inverness from London once with a reliquary containing a bit in my jacket pocket - and set of the detctors going through!) Laurence O'Toole - Christ Church Cathedral Dublin Hair of Charles the Martyr - Millport Francis Xavier's forearm - the Gesu, Rome The heads of Peter and Paul - St John Lateran Rome St John Southworth - Westminster Cathedral I've been around!! Cuthbert and Bede – Durham
Augustine – Canterbury
Mother Julian – Norwich
Mungo -Glasgow
Margaret’s Cave – Dunfermline
Machar – Aberdeen
Columba – Iona (& flew to Inverness from London once with a reliquary containing a bit in my jacket pocket – and set of the detctors going through!)

Laurence O’Toole – Christ Church Cathedral Dublin

Hair of Charles the Martyr – Millport

Francis Xavier’s forearm – the Gesu, Rome

The heads of Peter and Paul – St John Lateran Rome

St John Southworth – Westminster Cathedral

I’ve been around!!

]]> By: Robin http://www.thurible.net/20091104/relics/#comment-9297 Robin Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:44:42 +0000 http://www.thurible.net/?p=6487#comment-9297 I've visited lots of them, but my favourite must be the Holy Jubjube of S Charles the Martyr, to be found in Ullapool. (Yes, I know it should be "jujube", not "jubjube", but I prefer the Doric version.) When I was about 15 I knelt to venerate it in the museum, believing that I was striking a great blow for the Episcopalian faith as I did so. http://www.aboutscotland.co.uk/tour/invmeas.html I’ve visited lots of them, but my favourite must be the Holy Jubjube of S Charles the Martyr, to be found in Ullapool. (Yes, I know it should be “jujube”, not “jubjube”, but I prefer the Doric version.) When I was about 15 I knelt to venerate it in the museum, believing that I was striking a great blow for the Episcopalian faith as I did so.

http://www.aboutscotland.co.uk/tour/invmeas.html

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