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Notes on Pilgrimage
Sep. 17th, 2009 02:18 pmI'm reading a lot about pilgrimage for a project.
Last week it was Assassination Vacation, Sarah Vowell's visits to historic sites related to the assassinations of three presidents (Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley). This gave me a long list of things I need to go see (which probably no one will find interesting but me).
Right now I'm reading Magnificent Corpses, by Anneli Rufus. It's a collection of essays that revolve around visits to European pilgrimage sites -- places where dried up pieces of saints are stored in ornate golden boxes.
According to the book, in Budapest there is in St. Stephen's Basilica a reliquary that contains St. Stephens incorruptible right hand (nicknamed Szentjobb -- "holy right").
You can apparently put coins into the reliquary stand to turn on a light above the hand. It's a coin operated relic. Absolutely awesome.
You can see a picture of the hand here.
Last week it was Assassination Vacation, Sarah Vowell's visits to historic sites related to the assassinations of three presidents (Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley). This gave me a long list of things I need to go see (which probably no one will find interesting but me).
Right now I'm reading Magnificent Corpses, by Anneli Rufus. It's a collection of essays that revolve around visits to European pilgrimage sites -- places where dried up pieces of saints are stored in ornate golden boxes.
According to the book, in Budapest there is in St. Stephen's Basilica a reliquary that contains St. Stephens incorruptible right hand (nicknamed Szentjobb -- "holy right").
You can apparently put coins into the reliquary stand to turn on a light above the hand. It's a coin operated relic. Absolutely awesome.
You can see a picture of the hand here.
