Thanks. Even by this early part of the trip, I was on total information overload. I have a big stack of informational brochures and stuff but couldn't get everything, of course. Making clips is really a great way to note things.
I never forgot Lucca and that cool church, San Freddiano I think it is called. From 1981 to 2002, I found myself there again, and was wandering around asking where she was cuz I had forgotten, and it turned out to be her special day and they had the whole church decked out for her! All these people paraded past! (She is usually shoved in a side chapel kinda. Or was.) Of course I bought a little metal prayer thingie to her in Italian and it is always in my bag to refer to on the bus & stuff.
Santa Zita sounds like a COOL saint, much like St. Martin de Porres or San Roque(the patron saint here in my barrio),....i looked for a video on Saint Zita and i'm truly amazed at her body not rotting, intact since day one of her passing, i see now why she's your favorite, she's totally the INSPIRATION for us mortals!! =)
Yup, I was totally flabbergasted & hadn't thought to look for a lighting device (he did). I kind of wish I could have gotten closer, but they were also high up. Yeah, I've seen some of these silver ex votos for sale in the Clignancourt flea markets, and they were expensive. I saw one of a foot, and one of a pair of breasts! I was on a shopping expedition for a wealthy foot fetishist in NYC who was interested in the foot, but did not buy.
Oh yeah,....Silver ex votos, i've seen the likes of those here, in numerous churches in the historic downtown, mainly in San Antonio's, in Santiago's but also to a lesser degree in La Congregación(where La Guadalupana is) and over at San Francisco's and San Agustin's. Ah, i get it the video that i watched before this one was where you turned the lights on, all the more for the better presentation! Thumbs up beautiful =),....er...and again that skull, who does it belong to?
I am glad you saw that! Out in Brittany, anyone who could read or write was called a saint. As far as being beatified, yeah, Zita is not important in the Church and not even recognized in every country, but her employers were horrible to her, she was this lowly servant, and she kinda made up her own mind about "stealing." I think only one of her fingers is missing, in some reliquary somewhere. The protagonist in CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES says prayers to her. San Roque!!
"To whom did it belong." You know, I feared someone was gonna ask me that. I forget! The fact they had a skull indicates that this was an important church and town in some way. Lesser places might only get a fingernail or something. There are exceptions. Santa Zita, my general favorite saint cuz she stole from her employers who mistreated her and gave food she swiped to pilgrims, is in Lucca, Italy pretty much intact, cuz she wasn't considered very noteworthy. She was little!
an ex voto being a pair of breasts? Now there's one i don't remember seeing here! hearts, feet, legs, hands, a figure genuflecting with his hands in prayer form, but boobs! Hehehehe....
Thanks. Even by this early part of the trip, I was on total information overload. I have a big stack of informational brochures and stuff but couldn't get everything, of course. Making clips is really a great way to note things.
I never forgot Lucca and that cool church, San Freddiano I think it is called. From 1981 to 2002, I found myself there again, and was wandering around asking where she was cuz I had forgotten, and it turned out to be her special day and they had the whole church decked out for her! All these people paraded past! (She is usually shoved in a side chapel kinda. Or was.) Of course I bought a little metal prayer thingie to her in Italian and it is always in my bag to refer to on the bus & stuff.
Santa Zita sounds like a COOL saint, much like St. Martin de Porres or San Roque(the patron saint here in my barrio),....i looked for a video on Saint Zita and i'm truly amazed at her body not rotting, intact since day one of her passing, i see now why she's your favorite, she's totally the INSPIRATION for us mortals!! =)
Yup, I was totally flabbergasted & hadn't thought to look for a lighting device (he did). I kind of wish I could have gotten closer, but they were also high up. Yeah, I've seen some of these silver ex votos for sale in the Clignancourt flea markets, and they were expensive. I saw one of a foot, and one of a pair of breasts! I was on a shopping expedition for a wealthy foot fetishist in NYC who was interested in the foot, but did not buy.
Oh yeah,....Silver ex votos, i've seen the likes of those here, in numerous churches in the historic downtown, mainly in San Antonio's, in Santiago's but also to a lesser degree in La Congregación(where La Guadalupana is) and over at San Francisco's and San Agustin's. Ah, i get it the video that i watched before this one was where you turned the lights on, all the more for the better presentation! Thumbs up beautiful =),....er...and again that skull, who does it belong to?
I am glad you saw that! Out in Brittany, anyone who could read or write was called a saint. As far as being beatified, yeah, Zita is not important in the Church and not even recognized in every country, but her employers were horrible to her, she was this lowly servant, and she kinda made up her own mind about "stealing." I think only one of her fingers is missing, in some reliquary somewhere. The protagonist in CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES says prayers to her. San Roque!!
"To whom did it belong." You know, I feared someone was gonna ask me that. I forget! The fact they had a skull indicates that this was an important church and town in some way. Lesser places might only get a fingernail or something. There are exceptions. Santa Zita, my general favorite saint cuz she stole from her employers who mistreated her and gave food she swiped to pilgrims, is in Lucca, Italy pretty much intact, cuz she wasn't considered very noteworthy. She was little!
an ex voto being a pair of breasts? Now there's one i don't remember seeing here! hearts, feet, legs, hands, a figure genuflecting with his hands in prayer form, but boobs! Hehehehe....
who does it belong to, forgive my english grammer, it should be who did it belong to.=P