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In other news, is Wikipedia pulling my leg?
During the late 17th century, Catholic scholar and theologian Leo Allatius in De Praeputio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Diatriba ("Discussion concerning the Prepuce of our Lord Jesus Christ") speculated that the Holy Foreskin may have ascended into Heaven at the same time as Jesus himself and might have become the rings of Saturn, then only recently observed by telescope.

Date: 2005-09-29 07:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kalmn.livejournal.com
my local catholic weirdness authority says "i can believe that a 17th century scholar wrote that." (she also did grad school in history.) "but i always figured it was like fingernails and hair after a haircut."

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