Catholics in Ireland worship a “holy head”

The bones of St. Oliver is carried on the shoulders of Catholics in Ireland on 1st of July. The head of the saint is kept at the altar of the church at Drogheda.

Irish men parade the “Holy bones” of “saint Oliver” on their shoulders. The man on the left has a skull on his chest.

The “preserved” head of “St.Oliver Plunkett” is kept at the altar in St Peter’s, Church in Drogheda in Ireland.

The sight of an altar with a skull in its center is another example of the pagan practice of Roman Catholics worshiping the dead. Because if an altar in a Church is not meant to be the center of worship, there is no such place.

A headless saint in Ireland, adored with candled at the alter of St. Peters Church.

The Catholic faithful do come in front to this altar, and light candles to adore and venerate the skull.

St. Oliver is a former Archbishop

Who is Oliver Plunkett?

He was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh in Ireland, and the primate of all Ireland. He lived from 1st of November 1625, to 1st of July 1681. Plunkett was beatified in 1920 and canonised in 1975, the first new Irish saint for almost seven hundred years.

Lets read from the official Catholic website:

Oliver Plunkett was beatified in 1920 and canonized in 1975. In 1979, Pope John Paul II venerated the relic of St Oliver Plunkett during the Drogheda part of his Papal visit to Ireland.

The Feast of St Oliver Plunkett occurs annually on the anniversary of his death, 1st July. Special celebrations are held each year on this date in Drogheda. A procession of the Saint’s relic is made from Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Hardman’s Gardens to the Church of St Peter, West Street. A Mass in honor of St Oliver Plunkett is held in St Peter’s Church on the last Friday of each month at 7.30 pm.

Link to the website of the parade with photo of the festival made to honor this saint.

The head of Oliver seen at the center, just in front of the altar.
The Church in Ireland who keep a headless saint in the center.
The night vision of a skull at the alter of a place of worship
St. Peter’s Church in Drogheda in Ireland.

What does the Bible say in regards to lightening of candles in front of skulls, and claimed to be Christians who carries human remains and bones on their shoulders?

Deuteronomy 4:16
so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman.

Catholics carrying the bones of a claimed to be holy bishop Oliver on their shoulders.
The bones of Oliver is carried into the Church to be adored and venerated.

Isaiah 19:3
The Egyptians will lose heart, and I will bring their plans to nothing; they will consult the idols and the spirits of the dead, the mediums and the spiritists.

Isaiah 8:18-21
Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.
When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn. Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.

This head of Oliver can not speak, neither save it self if it falls down.

Romans 1:24-26

Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

What do the Catholic leadership say about the head at this altar?

Canon Jim Carrol worshiped in front of the Head.

This is a statement of Canon Jim Carroll, recorded on youtube.com.

Many times I came here as a youngster,  during times of youthful trauma, I came here to the head of Oliver to kneel humbly and to pray.

Ezekiel 43:9
Now let them put away from me their prostitution and the lifeless idols of their kings, and I will live among them forever.

1 Peter 4:3
For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.

The claimed skull of John the Baptist

The mother of all corruption and shame.The Catholic Church of Amiens in France have kept John the Baptists skull on a plate.

A Church in France holds a skull on a plate, and claims it is John the Baptist.

Jesus explains there have never been a greater man than John the Baptist walking the Earth. Still a Catholic Church in France, feels the need to keep a skull on a plate, and claims it is the very head of the baptist.

Surely this picture is insane enough. But what should make the Catholic World grasping for fresh air, is an Italian claim, that the skull of the baptist is also to be found in Church of S.Sivestro in Rome. To be correct, only the backside of the skull has been kept in the city of the Vatican. And this piece of the head can be adored and venerated at a glass mounter.

We need to take a look at a lot of pictures. Lets start with the photos from the Church in France.

The Amiens Cathedral in France.
The half skull kept on a pillow, and presented on a platter.
The head taken out for adoration and veneration.

This is the official Catholic story:

The head of John the Baptist on display in Amiens Cathedral. The relic was brought back from Constantinople (modern Istanbul) in 1206 after the sacking of the city by the Fourth Crusade.

But most of the time kept safely behind bars.
I do not think this Frenceman know the eternal consequences of copying Herodias.

The best site with photos of this skull, is made by an Orthodox “Christian”. Take a look.


Since both Rome and a city in France is involved here, we have a problem with a dual claim to the same head. It is worth noticing that both these two Catholic Churches admit that they do support Catholic priests who have fought over a skull, and broken it into at least two pieces.

The skull, or the head of John the Baptist, is nevertheless
not so “impressive” inside the Church in the city of Rome. Lets take a look:

The half skull, the backside, of claimed to be John the Baptist. St. Sylvester Church in Rome.
St. Sylvester Church in Rome

Who, if not Papist priests, have cut the skull of John the Baptist into two pieces?

And the skull might have been cut in three, with one piece left in Turkey. Please keep on reading.

This is surely one of the most bizarre example of Church adoration and veneration of any item. Two half skulls, separated by two national borders, by two Churches that both has the Pope as their head.

But this story does not end here. To make the legacy of John the Baptist more complicated, the Grand Mosque of Damascus Syria also claim to have the head of John the Baptist. This head is kept in a small chapel inside the Islamic dome.

John the Baptist in the Mosque in Damascus, at least with the back turned towards us. Because I guess he has been kept reading verses from the Koran on the wall.

This amazing picture from a Mosque, can be viewed at this site.

The official Syrian version:

Sheltered inside the mosque is the small chapel and shrine of John the Baptist (Prophet Yahia to the Muslims) where tradition holds that the head of John is buried. One legend says that when the church was demolished, his head was found underneath, complete with skin and hair. This head is believed by some to possess magical powers and continues to be the focus of the Mandaeans’ annual pilgrimage, when they press their foreheads against the metal grill of the shrine and reportedly experience prophetic visions.

Interesting photo from Damascus. I did not know there are chapel’s inside Mosques.
Catholics should flock to the Mosque in Damascus, and try to get a pieces of the “holy” head. There might even be some prophetic vision left.

And there is also a forth claim to the head, of the Jew who baptized the savior of the World.  This head is kept in a Museum in the German city of Munich. In the Residenze, a castle belonging to the past Catholic Kings of Bavaria.

The most funny head you have ever seen. Or have the royals packed the skull, to avoid children getting nightmares after visiting this castle in Munich?
Just like king Herod, Catholic Kings of Bavaria lived in this castle. They both claimed to hold the head of John the Baptist.

If is of course difficult to understand, what is so special about people who keep the head of John the Baptist on a platter.

It was only the completely wicked and evil wife of King Herod who took pleasure in such a gruesome sight. And probably also King Herod and his staff and followers.

Why do our modern day Church goers want to share her joy, and probably also Herodias final destination?

It is bad enough to see four different institutions trying to convince the World, they they have the genuine skull.  The story eventually fall into the deepest pit of perversion, when a handful of Catholic and Orthodox Churches claim they have collected parts of his headless body.

These claim presented by religious people, should leave the World’s best pathologists speechless.

The Ottoman Empire did not only manage to slaughter and kill 1,5 million Armenians in the bloodiest genocide prior to the Holocaust. In Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, modern day Turkey claim they have both his right arm, and a part of his skill. In fact, the top of his skull.

Can anyone really buy the story of whose remains are inside this golden container?
There are claimed to be remins of the baptists, held by a Museum in Istanbul.

I am sure many Muslims will be puzzled by the fact, that Islam do collect such items for adoration, just like collection of any idols. The same Museum also claim to be the correct holder of some of Muhammad’s beard. The Islamic relics does not look very different from the Catholics. But that is a different story.

The problem with the Turkish claim of holding the right arm of John the Baptists, is that an Greek Orthodox Church claims to have the very same hand in its collection of relics.

The right hand of John the Baptist can simply not be in two different places at the same time.This is the Greek version of what looks like an idol hand of gold.
The Hellenists claims the remains of John are in this cloister in Greek.

And a Orthodox Church in Bulgaria recently claims they found one tooth of the Baptist.

Do this Bulgarian box hold a 2.000 year old tooth, and is it one of the teeth of John the Baptist.

The story of the corrupt Catholic Word of relics could have been continued for years. But there is surely a limit of how much perversion my readers can take.

Let me make a summery:

We know that John the Baptist lost his head, but not His salvation.

All those who have made a mockery out of his legacy, deserve to be beheaded today it self. But that kind of punishment would not be Biblical.

There is something eternal and much worse waiting for them, the day they find them self in the fire of Hell, both body and soul.

First published: October 2nd 2010.

Peres” Pope to lead Israel to “fields of peace”

When the Israeli Prime Minister went to Washington, the Israeli President traveled to Rome to meet “His Holiness”.

Shimon Peres seeks the blessings of the Pope. Look at their handshake. The classical greetings of two freemasons.

The Israel President Shimon Peres is a freemason, knighted by the Queen of England, the former Colonial head of “Palestine”.  In 2008, the Queen made Peres a “honourary Knight Commanders in the Order of St Michael and St George”.

Peres is also closely connected to the Vatican, and embraces the pope as “His holiness”.

Shimon Peres was knighted by the Queen of England in 2008.

What did Peres and the pope talk about?

The topic was the future of the Old city of Jerusalem. Peres chat with the pontiff was well coordinated with his Labor party fellow Ehud Barak’s offer to Mahmoud Abbas: “Lets both hand over the Temple Mount to a special regime”. This is like music in the ears of the pope, who long to set up his throne inside the “Holy basin”.

At the conclusion of the audience, President Peres gave the “Holy Father” a one-foot tall silver Menorah on which is inscribed:

“To his holiness Pope Benedict XVI, the Shepherd who seeks to lead us to the fields of blessings and the fields of peace.”

You should pay some attention to how freemasons greet each other when they shake hands.  Because they are ordered to put a tomb, outside of the hand of a higher Commander.

That both Tony Blair and Shimon Peres use the same odd handshake when they greet the pope, is not a funny coincidence.

This is the way high commanders among the freemasons greet each other.

While we know that Tony Blair has become a Papist. It should be rather shocking for Israeli citizens that their own president also takes his orders from the head of the Vatican.

First published: September 8th, 2010.

Bible: Repent and be baptized

To follow Jesus is all about repentance and obedience. An infant can not do that.

 

May be this is a mother baptizing her own daughter.
A mother baptizing her daughter. A true disciple of Jesus the Messiah.

One of the biggest arguments within Christianity is linked to baptism. I know that my Catholic friends will reject todays messages, and my Lutheran family will be offended. But I have to tell the truth, and will say as Paul:

2 Corinthians 7:8

«Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Though I did regret it. I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while»

The issue of baptism is expressed many places in the New Testament. Like in this message from Peter:

Acts 2:38

«Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit».

Now, an infant could not have received this message. But still many Christians wants to believe than an infant can be saved by a religious ritual, and be added to the true Church.

If the infant ends up like the devil of the town later in life, neither will his parents nor the Church be willing to take the blame for their faulty teaching.

How could this Child of God, who excepted Christ as an infant, walk away from such a wonderful and obvious message of salvation?

Jesus challenged the teachers of the laws of his day, and I will do the same:

Matthew 21:25

«John’s baptism, where did it come from? Was it from heaven, or from men?»

Now, a Catholic and a religious Lutheran will answer that it was from God, but God changed his mind. Because unlike John, who demanded fruit of repentance before he baptized people, and that obviously pleased God, the Catholics and religious Lutherans do not demand such fruits.

Jesus first refused to answer the teacher of the law, and let the truth pending for some time. But in the Gospel according to Luke, we get the message straight:

Luke 7:30

«But the Pharisees and experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John».

The life of Jesus him self testify against baptism of infants. Simply because God never told his Jewish mother to baptize her firstborn. God would have done this, if He wanted to give an indisputable acknowledgment of baptism of infants, and instructed parents to do so forever after.

Finally, comes the instruction from Jesus Him self:

Mark 10:39

«We can,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink and be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with».

There was no time for the repenting thief on the cross to get baptized. But there is time for you.

It is not my job to tell you what kind of consequences you will face, if you disobey your master in Baptism. Because I am not sure. But if you want to be sure that you have copied Him also in your baptism, go to the river today and do it.

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