National tour under way for relics of St Bernadette

https://www.rte.ie/news/connacht/2024/0905/1468544-national-tour-underway-for-relics-of-st-bernadette/

Posted by box_of_carrots

24 Comments

  1. Humble_Ostrich_4610 on

    The body showed no sign of decay? Calling bollox on that one. The whole thing is a load of bollox

  2. I sincerely hope they’re not giving the relics an army escort, as was the case in the past…

  3. This is some mental medieval hoodoo. Common decency demands the poor woman be buried and allowed rest in peace. Having your corpse hauled around the world for 150 years is grotesque.

  4. TheStoicNihilist on

    They really are the creepiest cult going.

    Anybody entertaining this nonsense is complicit in the abuse that has been meted out to children.

    These people are not right.

  5. I saw them on the “74 Tour when they were still the “Apprentices of St Bernadette”.

    Bag of shite of a gig and the drummer shifted my sister and never called her after.

  6. EnvironmentWise7695 on

    The scoping report didnt help as we found out shes the Patron Saint of child rapists

  7. But what are the relics you might ask? Bits of clothing? Her old crucifix? ….. Nope, it’s bits of her body it seems (the woman died of tb so maybe wear a mask)

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    The “Original Acts”, preserved in the Archives of Nevers and written in Latin, indicate that taken for the relics were:

    A fragment of the 5th rib

    A fragment of the 6th rib

    The kneecaps

    A sample of muscle, from the external part of the right femur

    Lots of hair

    And various fragments which came from muscles and skin

    The conservation and attribution of these relics were entrusted to the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of Nevers, under the vigilance of the Bishop of Nevers.

  8. I saw the end of the rte news, and this story was on straight after the priest paedophile ring story.  Was odd

  9. Acceptable_Hope_6475 on

    I remember around 2001 getting dragged to the church and queuing for hours to see mother Teresa/ Saint Teresa of Kolkata (Calcutta) – did anyone else experience this ?

  10. “Ah shite lads! The story broke about all of our schools and associations molesting and abusing people in our care!”

    I know! Send the relics on tour!

  11. Bernadette always struck me as a right little downer, when I was a kid. (Now Jeanne d’Arc, she’d be worth a gilded reliquary and a world tour!)