This collection of Greek ikons, skull and bones can be found in a monastery near Jericho in Israel.
An Orthodox mix of bones, skulls and religious ikons are found in a monastary near Jericho.
The story abort Saint Gerasimos of Deir Hajla monastery near Jericho in Israel is interesting beyond the skull and the bones.Gerasimos of the Jordan was a monk who attended the Fourth Ecumenical Council at Chalcedon in 451 AD. So inside the skull there must have been a good brain.
But the most amazing side of this monk’s life, is his teaming of a lion. Lets read from an Orthodox website:
One day while walking along the Jordan, Gerasimos came upon a lion roaring in agony because of a large splinter imbedded in one paw. Overcome with compassion for the suffering beast, Gerasimos removed the splinter, drained and cleaned the wound, then bound it up, expecting the lion would return to its cave.
Instead the creature meekly followed him back to the monastery and became the abbot’s devoted pet. The whole community was amazed at the lion’s apparent conversion to a peaceful life – he lived now on bread and vegetables – and its devotion to the abbot.
Lets take a look on more photos from this “Holy place”.
The official explaination is that monks collected skulls and bones of their fellow munks.The skull in the box is venterated and adored by Greek Orthodox munks inside Israel.The skull has the central place at this site of worship.The saint and the lion. Look at the skull on the cloak of the man.The skull and bones on the cloak of this saint look like a piracy sign.The bone collecting monks have been bussy.
Dr. Riccardo Di Segni, chief rabbi of Rome, responded warmly on Yom Kippur to Pope Francis’s remarks on Jews and Judaism.
Pope Emeritus is an antichrist, and leads the Chief Rabbi Di Segni of Rome into deception.
In a letter published September 12 by national daily La Repubblica, Di Segni, known for his very cautious attitude toward interreligious dialogue and his insistence on mutually recognized limits, said, “This Pontificate does not cease to surprise.”
He was referring to an article written by the pope and published September 11 in La Repubblica in response to challenging questions asked by Eugenio Scalfari, the paper’s cofounder and former editor, and a self-proclaimed “nonbeliever.”
Concerning Scalfari’s questioning as to whether God had actually kept his promise to Abraham and the People of Israel for prosperity and happiness, considering centuries of persecution culminating in the Shoah, Francis replied: “This is a question – believe me – that touches us profoundly as Christians, because with the help of God, especially since the Second Vatican Council [created 50 years ago], we have rediscovered that the Jewish People are still for us the holy root that produced Jesus.
“During all these years of friendship with our Jewish brothers in Argentina, I, too, have questioned God many times in my prayers, especially when my mind turned to the memory of the terrible experience of the Shoah,” declared the pope, who was born in Argentina, where he became archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and a cardinal in 2001.
God never abandoned his covenant with Israel, and notwithstanding their suffering over the centuries, the Jewish People have kept their faith, the pope wrote.
“For this, we will never be sufficiently grateful to them as a Church, but also as human beings,” he continued. “In the persistence of their faith in the God of the Covenant, they summon all, including us as Christians, to recall the fact that we are awaiting the return of the Lord as pilgrims, and must therefore always remain open to Him and never retreat from what we have already achieved.”
In his published letter, Di Segni noted that while Francis’s words are not new but, rather, inherent to Christianity and confirmed by Vatican II, “it is the force with which he expresses them and his capacity of communicating them that is astounding. The fact that Judaism is the holy root of Christianity is fundamental, but many theological currents, especially in Protestantism, have tried to belittle them. In opposing these currents, Francis is coherent to the teaching of Benedict. Especially noteworthy is his expression of gratitude to Jews for their devotion in faith.”
The main copy of the Messiah, is “Jesus of Rome”. This ‘Messiah” was the shining light for people who have massacred Jews and Evangelical Christians in their million. Simply because they could not accept the Bishop of Rome to be the ‘Vicar of Christ”, and the “Mother of Jesus” to be the Pagan Queen of Heaven.
Orthodox Judaism will eventually embrace the last false Messiah, who will arrive at Ben Gurion Airport, and bring “peace” to the Jews. This Messiah is a fleshy World leader, who is willing to compromise on Biblical truth. True followers of the Messiah will brand this man as a “false Messiah”, the last and final anti-Christ. Because the true Prince of Peace, the Lion Of Judah, will return in the clouds of Heaven at a moment what the World does not expect Him.
All people must be careful, not supporting the camp on the antichrist, who is about to arrive on the world stage. He will be lifted up by the papacy, the United Nations, and religious people all over the World. The Jews will be deceived into accepting a compromise, for the sake of “peace”.
Behold: Jesus the Messiah will says to many people who claim to know Him, and to be his true followers: ” I never knew you”. Away from me you evil doers.
“It’s a finger from his right hand from which he often gave a blessing to St. Faustina.”
Roman Catholics in Poland is ready to take a “holy finger” out for a stroll.
The Most Rev. Edward Ozorowski, Archbishop of Bialystok, Poland, brought a relic of Blessed Michael Sopocko, who was St. Faustina’s confessor and spiritual director.
The principal celebrant at the Solemn Liturgy on Divine Mercy Sunday came bearing a special gift for the Marians of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
“It’s a finger from his right hand from which he often gave a blessing to St. Faustina,” explained Br. Andrew R. Maczynski, MIC, general promoter of the Association of Marian Helpers.
The relic, which came encased in a golden monstrance, is about 5 centimeters long. It will be placed in the National Shrine, which is administered by the Marians.
Bishop Ozorowski, in whose archdiocese Blessed Michael Sopocko was beatified Sept. 28, 2008, presented the gift during Holy Mass on Sunday.
“We express our sincere gratitude to His Excellency for making it possible that a relic of St. Faustina’s spiritual director will find its place here in the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy,” said Br. Chris Alar, MIC, during the presentation.
This is another detail worth mentioning. It is recorded by another Catholic news site
The relic will join another relic in the Shrine — the “basal phalanx” of a great toe of St. Faustina, to be exact. A larger piece of her relic remains in a reliquary within the Shrine.
The skull and bone files on News That Matters will now include some hot stuff from Poland.
Matthew 23:27 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.
You have to be completely disconnected to dress up in parade uniform, and start to carry a bone on your shoulders.
“Blessed” Michael Sopocko might have put his finger into a lot during his lifetime. That one of his fingers has been cut of from his skeleton is yet another example of the how the bone collectors of Rome has looted corpses.
It is not so strange that Catholics wants to adore more than just a cut off finger. Inside the Shrine it will be entertained by a piece of a “holy toe”
Was this toe just axed off, or did the priest take a big bite?
Nine years shorter in Purgatory. Thats what Catholics get for each step they climb on their knees in a Vatican staircase, claimed to have been transported to Rome from Jerusalem.
Catholics who have believed the lies, perform religious rituals at the «Sacred Steps» in Rome.
The so-called «Sacred Steps» in Rome is supposed to be the staircase from Pontius Pilate’s mansion, on which the Catholics are told Christ was made to walk on his knees, carrying the cross.
People still walk on their knees on those 30 odd steps as a mark of Jesus’ sacrifice for mankind. And there are 4 places on the stairs that are encased in gold-framed glass, supposed to be places where drops of Jesus’ blood fell.
How Pilate’s staircase came to Rome?
Helen, the mother of Emperor Constantine, brought it from wherever she might have found it.
In the Catholic Church, plenary indulgence can be granted for climbing the stairs on the knees. Pius VII on 2 September 1817 granted those who ascend the stairs in the prescribed manner an indulgence of nine years for every step. Finally Pius X, on 26 February 1908, granted a plenary indulgence to be gained as often as the stairs are devoutly ascended after confession and communion.
Not a few popes are recorded to have performed this pious exercise; Pius IX, who in 1853 entrusted the Passionist Fathers with the care of the sanctuary, ascended the Holy Stairs on 19 September 1870, the eve of the entrance of the Piedmontese into Rome.
There are replicas (holy copies) of these Holy Stairs at Lourdes, France; St. Anne de Beaupre, Canada; Tytuvenia, Lithuania; Abruzzi, Italy; Nasonville, Rhode Island and at St. Patrick’s.
My comment:
First:
There is no words in the Bible, about Jesus being dragged in a staircase in the Governor`s palace in Jerusalem. And if there ever was such a staircase, how did it end up as a pagan Roman Queens possession, more than 300 years after the life of Jesus?
Second:
And if there were blood in this staircase, how did anyone come to know if the blood was of Jesus? No one had His DNA-profile.
Since Pilate washed his hands of Jesus, would it not be reasonable, that someone would have cleaned up the mess in the staircase?
Third:
Frankly, it is more than unlikely that the Governor would make his presumed blood stained staircase into a «Museum» for a Jew the Jewish crowed wanted to get rid off, and the Roman soldiers crucified.
Forth:
In Mathew 28 you can read how the chief priests and the Jewish elders tried their best to blot out any traces and evidences of a risen Messiah, a cover-up that was supposed to have pleased Pilate.
Fifth:
How do you transport a staircase? I guess it must have been difficult to demolish? Was the building also demolished, and a proper copy of the castle built in Rome, to fit the staircase?
Six:
Jesus did not redeem mankind in the presence of Pilate, and any penance in such a staircase that will redeem the dead Catholics from «purgatory» is not-Biblical non sense.
The Vatican is cheating. The pagans claimed to be «Christians» has built a religion around a copy-cat Jesus, and religious rituals based on fabricated stories that perverts the truth.
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