Christians mistakenly praying to bones of beasts
March 6, 2015 at 11:38 am
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2015 at 11:39 am by Zenith.)
The news appears to be from 2009, but I've recently come across it...
The Orthodox Christianity is the one with the tradition of worshipping relics (i.e. the remains / decayed limbs of people deemed as saints by the Church), of course.
By the way, do catholics have such a tradition as well? Do you know?
Anyway, the textual news goes like this:
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Human mistake or deception done knowingly? At the Celic Dere Monastery in the Tulcea county, the pilgrims have been praying for years to some bones of pigs and sheep, instead of to the holy relics of Astion and Epictetus.
These relics of these saints were brought into the place, along with other human and animal bones, alongside which they had been unearthed. After having been separated, the remains of the saints have rested some time within the monastery, and then were sent to the Archdiocese of Tomis.
At the Celic Dere have thus remained the bones unrelated to the holy ones.
The bishop acknowledged the mistake and decided to bury the bones of animals in the monastery cemetery.
The tourists visiting the place were not being told explicitly what the shrine contained. The episcopate investigation follows to clarify things.
"
Well, of course, praying to and kissing the boxes containing the rotten limbs of sheep and pigs is no different than praying to and kissing boxes containing the rotten limbs of "saints"
But anyway, I wonder, what could the believers think and feel now, knowing that they've been worshipping beast carcasses? A very holy and very CHRISTIAN act, right?
The Orthodox Christianity is the one with the tradition of worshipping relics (i.e. the remains / decayed limbs of people deemed as saints by the Church), of course.
By the way, do catholics have such a tradition as well? Do you know?
Anyway, the textual news goes like this:
"
Human mistake or deception done knowingly? At the Celic Dere Monastery in the Tulcea county, the pilgrims have been praying for years to some bones of pigs and sheep, instead of to the holy relics of Astion and Epictetus.
These relics of these saints were brought into the place, along with other human and animal bones, alongside which they had been unearthed. After having been separated, the remains of the saints have rested some time within the monastery, and then were sent to the Archdiocese of Tomis.
At the Celic Dere have thus remained the bones unrelated to the holy ones.
The bishop acknowledged the mistake and decided to bury the bones of animals in the monastery cemetery.
The tourists visiting the place were not being told explicitly what the shrine contained. The episcopate investigation follows to clarify things.
"
Well, of course, praying to and kissing the boxes containing the rotten limbs of sheep and pigs is no different than praying to and kissing boxes containing the rotten limbs of "saints"
But anyway, I wonder, what could the believers think and feel now, knowing that they've been worshipping beast carcasses? A very holy and very CHRISTIAN act, right?
