lilac_angel Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 (edited) [quote name='Selah' post='1612418' date='Jul 30 2008, 07:44 AM']I wonder if that St. Silvan is this one: (Scroll down): [url="http://www.rameysrealm.com/saint.htm"]http://www.rameysrealm.com/saint.htm[/url] He was a Bishop as well, but was martyred by being beheaded. His body is still in perfect condition, and he is 1600 years old! Isn't that amazing?[/quote] Wow, that is amazing. He looked like he was quite handsome, too. I feel pretty wrong saying that. Anyway, wow. Edited July 31, 2008 by lilac_angel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HisChildForever Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 [quote name='Kitty' post='1612338' date='Jul 30 2008, 01:09 AM']I hate to say it but it creeps me out. Especially when you hear accounts of eyes opening and closing by themselves, the the skin eventually darkening or degrading over a very long period of time. Makes me jumpy and is enough to give me nightmares.[/quote] I agree...and when I see the incorrupted saints who are beginning to corrupt, I think that one day I'll look like that (decaying) and it sort of makes me panic a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevotedtoHim Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 Great site! This subject has always interested me. Makes me extra proud to be a Catholic. Who else rocks like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balthazor Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 At the Church I went to in Prague there were two glass coffins with dead guys in them. They both were wearing golden masks so I do exactly think that they were what you what consider incorrupt..... but speaking as someone who has been in the cadaver lab and around dead bodies..... Creepy. The whole church is kinda creepy really. With those not-so perfect Cherabim flyin' all over. Too much Baroque for my taste. But yeah. The dead guys on the alters....... very distracting. I mean they are positioned in a way that they always are right at your shoulder staring at you. Maybe I will have to take a pic for you guys to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selah Posted July 31, 2008 Share Posted July 31, 2008 lol, not a fan of baroque art? I remember studying that period once...lol. Everyone turned into children again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffpugh Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 You guys are forgetting the legendary bone chapels. Anywho, is there a real pic of St. Cecilia? Or are they keeping her buried till the end of time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selah Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 I would love to see a picture of St. Cecilia. Maybe we'll find one one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dairygirl4u2c Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 St Cuthbert he's apparently a noncatholic. the wikipedia entry says he's venerated by catholics though so i don't know what ot say about that. it appears if you look at the church he started, which i think is presbytarian or anglican or some such, he's not catholic. that's what i'm basing that on. what's notable about that is that this is a non catholic and nonorthodox saint. thyose two religions are known for incorruptiility. anglicans are at least wanting to practice literal eucharist as flesh but the CC says they do not possess that. that's the only unifying theme of the religions though, the main significant line of connection though. perhaps the CC is wrong that they don't have the real precense. i may be msitaken that's he's not catholic but it doesn't look it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 The same St. Cuthbert who was born in 635, about 900 years before the Protestant schism? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dairygirl4u2c Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 (edited) but, ah that explains a lot. and is kinda obvious. *whimpers away the church he founded is anglican though. the current pastor there is married to someone. i'm sure there's an interesting story about how it went from a more ambiguous preschism, preanglican era, through all that, to the current times. Edited February 13, 2011 by dairygirl4u2c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 [quote name='dairygirl4u2c' timestamp='1297571734' post='2211873'] but, ah that explains a lot. and is kinda obvious. *whimpers away the church he founded is anglican though. the current pastor there is married to someone. i'm sure there's an interesting story about how it went from a more ambiguous preschism, preanglican era, through all that, to the current times. [/quote] Probably simply because a lot of Catholic stuff in England became Anglican when they split from Rome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dairygirl4u2c Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 i never thought one could be cooler than bernadette. but this one is close, and given it's also so old-- circa 350 AD, might even beat her. [img]http://personal.georgiasouthern.edu/~jpellegr/teaching/images/silvan1.jpg[/img] [img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2405/1561485891_517eac0fc7_o.jpg[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dairygirl4u2c Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 his name is st. silvan, little is known of him other than he was a martyr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dairygirl4u2c Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 i did just read this though, "Saint Silvan was a young man said to have been killed for a his faith in the year 350, and his body is on display in Dubrovnik, Croatia, replete with a fresh-looking gash on his throat said to have been the cause of death. The body appears to be perfect. It is a sculpted effigy — St. Silvan's actual remains are said to be contained within the box below the effigy. But there is no display signage to explain this to the faithful, and many come away with photographs of what they think is the actual body. If he is incorrupt as the church claims, why display the effigy instead of the body?" it did seem a bit too good to be true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dairygirl4u2c Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 (edited) ,,, Edited February 14, 2011 by dairygirl4u2c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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