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alt text: a manipulated image portraying the alleged killer/controversial folk hero re-envisioned as a saintly figure, wearing Christian religious garb with a sun-like halo shining behind his head

Source: someone said this image hit the front page on reddit before being "censored".

Apparent credit: @gedogfx (IG). Title source: "Inkl". 💩posting for meme archival and commentary purposes.

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

He's more sainty than most christian saints. St Benedicts "miracle":

Book 2 of the Dialogues of Pope Gregory is about St. Benedict, and chapter 1 is titled “How he made a broken sieve whole and sound”:

It fell so out that his nurse borrowed of the neighbors a sieve to make clean wheat, which being left negligently on the table, by chance it was broken in two pieces, Whereupon she fell pitifully weeping, because she had borrowed it. The devout and religious youth Benedict, seeing his nurse so lamenting, moved with compassion, took away with him both the pieces of the sieve, and with tears fell to his prayers; and after he had done, rising up he found it so whole, that the place could not be seen where before it was broken.

https://blog.plover.com/religion/st-benedict.html#%3A%7E%3Atext=Book+2+of+the+Dialogues%2Cwhere+before+it+was+broken.

So Benedict fixed a collander by crying on it and earned sainthood for it. Clearly none of us is worthy to behold such holiness as that. You couldnt make this flaming garbage up if you tried.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

weird misinformation?

if you actually read any biography or even wikipedia article you will find a whole host of reasons including healing miracles, exorcisms, and completely non-miraculous things like founding monastaries and writings that also played a role in his sainthood.

so your citation, while true, is just drastically misleading by implying this colander thing was somehow the only reason the dude gets to be saint. in the end i even agree with your rhetorical goals, but there’s no need to lie to get there? i’m not even a theological scholar i just… know how to read wikipedia.

cc @the_crotch@sh.itjust.works

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is impressive I guess. Even if that's his only superpower, and yeah it is a lame super specific superpower, it's more than you or I can do and if I watched someone do it I'd be impressed because I did not believe it was possible

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

A good glue job takes skill, its true. Well ...ok. Sainthood.