"A decapitated head, said to be that of St Vitalis of Assisi, the patron saint of genital diseases, will be sold at an auction in Co Meath next Sunday.

The macabre object, which is housed in a Queen Anne case, is being sold by an Anglo-Irish family based in Co Louth and has a guide price of between €800 and €1,200.
Saint Vitalis of Assisi (there are a number of saints with the name Vitalis) was an Italian hermit and monk who died in 1370.
He became a saint despite an early life marked by licentiousness and immorality."


http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/ ... 03082.html

"And be aware! He is the patron saint of genital disease, generally, and not venereal disease, specifically. The patron saint of venereal disease is, of course, St. Fiacre, who is, coincidentally, Irish."
http://gawker.com/5805700/severed-head- ... t-for-sale

Ya know, one of the benefits to being single is that I can decorate my house any damn way I want. The ex wasn't keen on me putting up taxidermy. So now that she's canned me I've been looking for a big, moth-eaten moose head to put up in the living room.

After seeing this, I don't want the moose any more.

dude could have used an orthodontist

Or a urologist

judgepacker wrote:Ya know, one of the benefits to being single is that I can decorate my house any damn way I want. The ex wasn't keen on me putting up taxidermy. So now that she's canned me I've been looking for a big, moth-eaten moose head to put up in the living room.

After seeing this, I don't want the moose any more.

At eight to twelve hundred euros, would that head be cheaper than a moose for the wall?

Why does it never dawn on the Catholic Church that they jumped the shark. Being the patron saint of genital disease is like being a lobbyist for anal warts. Makes no sense.

Oldskool wrote:Why does it never dawn on the Catholic Church that they jumped the shark. Being the patron saint of genital disease is like being a lobbyist for anal warts. Makes no sense.

I think it's more like "patron saint of people who suffer from genital disease."

Still, it seems like they preserved the wrong body part.

larrymod wrote:

Oldskool wrote:Why does it never dawn on the Catholic Church that they jumped the shark. Being the patron saint of genital disease is like being a lobbyist for anal warts. Makes no sense.

I think it's more like "patron saint of people who suffer from genital disease."

Still, it seems like they preserved the wrong body part.

Unless his teeth look like that because he ended up with genital herpes in his mouth.

In the Middle Ages the relic business was very lucrative. In the age of DNA testing, there is no way to definitively prove or disprove the authenticity of many of these supposed relics. The Shroud of Turin is still touted by many believers as authentic even though there is no DNA test to prove that it's Jesus' burial cloth. And then there is the foreskin of Jesus, many churches claim to have the true one but no way to ever prove it.

If it weren't for fine examples such as these, I'd be Big C catholic instead of little c catholic. Yay for Martin Luther!