This reminds me of one of my favorite lines from The Name of the Rose: "...in the cathedral of Cologne, I saw the skull of John the Baptist at the age of twelve."ludwigm wrote:Yes. For example, there are - in different shrines - three or more skulls of him, from his different ages.
Biblical figures who really existed ?
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Bret Ripley wrote:This reminds me of one of my favorite lines from The Name of the Rose: "...in the cathedral of Cologne, I saw the skull of John the Baptist at the age of twelve."ludwigm wrote:Yes. For example, there are - in different shrines - three or more skulls of him, from his different ages.
Touché! I've stolen it from there...
As You can see in my sig line, Eco is one of my favourites.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei