Who stole Jesus' foreskin?

[jgraz]

Fore Shame

Did the Vatican steal Jesus' foreskin so people would shut up about the savior's penis?

By David Farley
Posted Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2006, at 12:32 PM ET

In 1983, as the residents of Calcata, a small town 30 miles north of Rome, prepared for their annual procession honoring a holy relic, a shocking announcement from the parish priest put a damper on festivities. "This year, the holy relic will not be exposed to the devotion of the faithful. It has vanished. Sacrilegious thieves have taken it from my home." Not since the Middle Ages, when lopped-off body parts of divine do-gooders were bought, sold, and traded, has relic theft been big news. But the mysterious disappearance of Calcata's beloved curio is different.

This wasn't just the residuum of any holy human—nor was it just any body part. It was the foreskin of Jesus Christ, the snipped-off tip of the savior's penis, the only piece of his body he supposedly left on earth.

Just what the holy foreskin was doing in the priest's house—in a shoebox at the back of his wardrobe, no less—and why and how it disappeared has been debated ever since the relic vanished. Some suspect the village priest sold it for a heavenly sum; others say it was stolen by thieves and ended up on the relics black market; some even suggest Satanists or neo-Nazis are responsible. But the most likely culprit is an unlikely one: the Vatican.



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[aquart]

1. More proof he was a good, Jewish boy.

I assume his mother saved it after the bris?

[shain from kane]

2. "Holy Prepuce, Batman."

[Mrs. Overall]

3. Saint Catherine of Siena had a vision that Jesus gave her a ring

made from his foreskin.

[shain from kane]

4. Let's hope that she didn't suck her thumb.

From Wikipedia ---

"Catherine's body is currently interred in Rome, in the basilica Santa Maria sopra Minerva near the Pantheon. Her head and right thumb are in Siena, and her foot in Venice."

And I left my heart in San Francisco.

[cosmik debris]

5. This made me wonder.

So I went back and had a look at the Shroud of Turin to see if there was an image of the Penis O' Jesus. Nope, no luck. Nor is there an image of the Butt Crack O' Jesus.

(I had a pumpkin last Halloween with a crease in the side that looked just like Jesus' butt crack, but they wouldn't let me sell it on EBay so I ditched it.)

[Der Blaue Engel]

6. OMG! You just made me think of Jesus' penis!

Thanks a lot! :spank:

[jgraz]

7. I hear Mary Magdalene says he's hung like a camel