The Sainty for Weirdest Event

The next award goes to a Saint who really made us "W" our "TF" 's...it's time for the Sainty for the weirdest event!
And the Sainty goes to....

SAINT DENIS

FOR

PREACHING WITH DECAPITATED HEAD IN HANDS

Denis was a third century bishop in Paris who was having a great success converting the pagan folks to Christianity.  The druid authorities (are there druid authorities?  i guess i'm picturing a bunch of wiccans kicking him out of their world of warcraft guild or something, it was probably scarier.) were angered by this and demanded his execution.  He was decapitated and is said to have (p.s. in case you're wondering i really do believe this.  Why wouldn't God, frankly? He's got a sense of humour and this proves it.) picked up his cut off head, his detaited capa, and marches for six miles preaching a sermon from his severed head until he gets to what is now the site of the basilica of St. Denis, where the king and queen of France would be laid to rest.  Congradulations to St. Denis of Paris for the strangest, most bizzare event in the life of a Saint.  Enjoy your Sainty.  Now please send your body up on stage to collect it, your head can stay seated if it's more comfortable. 

The Sainty for Grossest Martyrdom

LADIES AND GENTLMEN, SAINTS AND SINNERS, CLERGY AND LAYMEN, IT'S THAT TIME....IT'S

THE SAINTIES!

So without further adoo (I've had enough Adoo, if adoo say so myself.) Let's get to the winner of the first award.  

The Sainty for the Grossest Martyrdom goes to...

SAINT BARTHOLOMEW

 FOR 

BEING SKINNED ALIVE!

St. Bartholomew, or St. Bart since Bartholomew takes way too long to type, was one of Jesus' original disciples, the one to say "can anything good come out of Nazareth?".  My guess is if he had known that in a few years he'd be skinned alive for love of the one he mocked, he'd probably had said "you're nuts" because WHO SKINS SOMEONE ALIVE?  Anyway, according to tradition he and St. Jude traveled to India as well as Armenia, bringing the Gospel and, in some traditions, copies of the Gospel of St. Matthew.    It was in Persia that St. Bart was to meet his end, where being flayed alive was a form of capital punishment.  St. Bart, patron of the Armenian Church, Tanners and Leather workers (not joking, we have a wonderful taste for irony, don't we?) and the 2011 Sainty winner for "Grossest Martyrdom" pray for us!

Happy Valentine's Day

Hope you weren't too interested in the box of chocolates, because it's time to ruin your day!

Here is a relic of St. Valentine. To be specific, his noggin'.

The tissue paper is a nice touch.


Really, if you think about it, this is actually a very accurate doctrinal assessment of a protestant theory of mediation and intercession.

Also, ugly.

Who am I to disagree?

In the Tradition of the Last Post

Comes this one

Ok, so let me walk you through it. This is meant to be the Glorious Transfiguration of the Lord Jesus...you heard me. This:

is what it is meant to depict. This artist instead has decided to create the equivalent of this

We really have come so far, haven't we?