Solemn shrines of Munich
My guidebook says there are more religious relics in Munich than in any city outside of Rome. A spirit of contemplative peace and comfort fills one's heart when one is in the presence of such shrines. I came across two of them today.
St. Munditia
She was a 3d-century martyr but few details about her life are known. She was dug up from the catacombs of Rome and shipped up to St. Peter's Church in Munich during the Reformation, to buck up the local Catholics against the satanic heresy of Protestantism. They put her into a crystal reliquary after dressing her up in a party dress and putting googly eyes in her skull sockets. Take THAT, you dirty Protestants!
St. Michael Jackson
On his 1997 tour, like most big celebrities and people a lot more important than us, he stayed at the fancy-shmancy Hotel Bayerischer Hof. (It's not where he dangled the baby over the balcony though - that was in Berlin.) Now that he has been canonized, his fans have repurposed a statue opposite the hotel of some dumb Italian composer nobody ever heard of, and made it into a Michael shrine. The devotees of his cult keep the shrine cleaned up and tidy, as one of them is doing in the photos. By the way, you can be a devotee too! Click HERE to learn how!
She was a 3d-century martyr but few details about her life are known. She was dug up from the catacombs of Rome and shipped up to St. Peter's Church in Munich during the Reformation, to buck up the local Catholics against the satanic heresy of Protestantism. They put her into a crystal reliquary after dressing her up in a party dress and putting googly eyes in her skull sockets. Take THAT, you dirty Protestants!
On his 1997 tour, like most big celebrities and people a lot more important than us, he stayed at the fancy-shmancy Hotel Bayerischer Hof. (It's not where he dangled the baby over the balcony though - that was in Berlin.) Now that he has been canonized, his fans have repurposed a statue opposite the hotel of some dumb Italian composer nobody ever heard of, and made it into a Michael shrine. The devotees of his cult keep the shrine cleaned up and tidy, as one of them is doing in the photos. By the way, you can be a devotee too! Click HERE to learn how!
This makes me really sad.
ReplyDeleteI mean the di Lasso shrine turned to shit.....that makes me sad.
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