AN Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's OddestTown
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.44 (662 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1592405495 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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In 2006, travel writer David Farley moved to Calcata, determined to find the missing foreskin, or at least find out the truth behind its disappearance. Some postulated that it had been stolen by Satanists. Farley recounts how the relic passed from Charlemagne to the papacy to a marauding sixteenth-century German solider before finally ending up in Calcata, where miracles occurred that made the sleepy town a major pilgrimage destination. Blending history, travel, and perhaps the oddest story in Christian lore, An Irreverent Curiosity is a weird and wonderful tale of conspiracy and misadventure.. Some said the priest himself was to blame. Some even pointed their fingers at the Vatican. Read David Farley's posts on the Penguin Blog.A tour through the centuries and through a bizarre Italian town in search of an unbelievable relic: the foreskin of Jesus Christ In December 1983, a priest in the Italian hill town of Calcata shared shocking news with his congregation: the pride of their town, the foreskin of Jesus, had been stolen
Part travelogue, part mystery story and part religious history, Farley's tale involves local winemakers, actors and priests, many of whom are tight-lipped about the relic's disappearance. (July)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. On that fateful day in December, however, priest Don Dario announced to his tiny congregation that the foreskin had disappeared. Farley discovers that no one really knows whether this piece of holy skin ever existed in the first place, and that no one knows its whereabouts now. . What happened to this holy relic? Who could have taken this piece of the divine that medieval saint Catherine of Siena was purported to have worn as a ring around her finger and about which writers as diverse as Joyce, Stendhal and José Saramago have written? In this humorous narrative, journalist Farley sets off to solve the mystery of the missing foreskin. From Publishers Weekly Until one mysterious day in
. David Farley’s travel writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Conde Nast Traveler, Slate, and many other publications. He teaches writing at New York University and lives in New York
Fascinating topic, not so good writting Magdalena miranda I read this book during a trip to Italy. I set out a spiritual intention, since i walked a leg of the via francigena and wanted to learn more about pilgrimages in general. I heard an interview of the author and the theme of the book really drew my attention. The book is more of a personal account of the author than a non fiction, informative narrative, as the title sugges. Slightly entertaining cooperkat10 I was very disappointed in this book. The basic premise was interesting, but the author eventually bores the reader to death.He writes of the minutia of his search. Also, he does not hesitate to let the reader know that he is sophisticated and erudite. The subject could have been covered in half of the book. I had difficulty believing that the author is a professional and. Joyce Horgan said Totally irreverant. If Jon Stewart were a Catholic from the 60's, pre-Vatican Council II, he could've written this book. Very funny, very irreverant, very historically accurate. This is the kind of stuff that good Catholics really believed in (relics) and venerated.I was in a small Catholic church in a Catholic villagein the Dutch coutryside in "Totally irreverant" according to Joyce Horgan. If Jon Stewart were a Catholic from the 60's, pre-Vatican Council II, he could've written this book. Very funny, very irreverant, very historically accurate. This is the kind of stuff that good Catholics really believed in (relics) and venerated.I was in a small Catholic church in a Catholic villagein the Dutch coutryside in 2001. It was the patron's saint feast day and t. 001. It was the patron's saint feast day and t