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[โ€“] hyperhopper 49 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)

That's not merch, that's the Veil of Veronica. Very significant catholic story/artifact. The story is that when she wiped the blood and sweat off of Jesus his face appeared on the cloth. You'll find depictions of this in most old catholic churches and many paintings

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_Veronica

[โ€“] [email protected] 64 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Damn, that sounds like some real valuable one of a kind kinda merch he's hocking.

[โ€“] [email protected] 50 points 9 months ago (1 children)

GET YOUR VEIL OF VERONICA RIGHT HERE!

ONE OF A KIND!

GENUINE AUTHENTIC VEIL OF VERONICA!

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

1 FOR 5, 3 FOR 10.

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

pretty sure it's supposed to be a joke

[โ€“] Son_of_dad 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I love how seriously Catholics took their fanfic to the point that they have Saints based solely on myth and "cool story bro" scenarios

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You will be shocked but absolutely everything in Catholicism is based on myth and "cool story bro" scenarios.

[โ€“] Son_of_dad 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I guess it was like doing Instagram pranks without the internet. "Yoooo, an angel just totally appeared to me" just to get attention back in that days when everyone was bored as fuck. If someone believes your bullshit, and writes it down and hides it for a thousand years, suddenly it's a religious fact

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Check it out, it's the bone from Jesus's boner! Totally legit! My guy found it back there beside the boulder.

Man, I don't think there are real bones inside boners. You're full of shit. Besides, didn't the dude get reincarnated? What, did he forget that bone?

Yeah well, go fuck yourself. I'm gonna go show this to someone who knows about this sort of thing.

2000 years later, the plaque on a gilded chest reads "The Sacred Bone of the Boner"

Boner bone? Pfft, everyone knows that boners don't have actual bones inside them.

Dude it says it right there on the plaque, who are you gonna believe, some dumb old science teacher or the Pope

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I read somewhere about some secret tooth cherished by some sect that was destroyed by grinding it to dust, mixing with shit and throwing in to the ocean. But guess what? Some fishermen said that he totally found the tooth restored floating on a leaf next to the place where they threw it out. You can't fight believes with real world methods.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I thought it was the shroud of turin I'm a bad catholic

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

We're all bad Catholics, that's the whole point of Catholicism!

[โ€“] iAvicenna 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

think again

https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5899670

that is THE MERC that started it all, merc zero.

"The Veil was owned by the Leonelli family until 1608. Pancrazio Petrucci, a soldier married to Marzia Leonelli, stole the Veil from his father-in-law's house. A few years later, Marzia sold it for 400 scudi to Doctor Donato Antonio De Fabritiis to pay a ransom demand for her husband, who was then a prisoner in Chieti."

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

should have been wearing less makeup then

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