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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.

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The skull of Saint Ignatius

Saint Ignatius, O.F.M. Cap., was born in 1701, the son of peasants at Laconi, Sardinia. As a young man he vowed, during a serious illness, that if he recovered his health, he would consecrate his life to God in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.

The saint, the Queen of Heaven and the skull. Three Roman Catholic images to be adored and venerated.

He died on May 11, 1781, and many miracles were said to have occurred at his grave. Brother Ignatius was beatified in 1940, and canonized in 1951.

The skeleton of this “saint” was looted from the grave, and his skull replaced by a wax figure with a golden mask.
Roman Catholics in Sardinia gathered to pray in front of the skeleton with a golden death mask.
The statue of the “saint” on the island of Sardinia.
Another Church statue of the saint, with the skull on the altar.
The feet of the saint is made of vax, and given a silver color.

It is typical for Roman Catholic worship of the dead, to keep a skull for adoration and veneration.

We do not know is this is a skull of a martyred Christian killed by the Catholic monk, or a skull of a forefather the priest has cut off from the skeleton. Under all circumstance, it is morbid and grotesque.

 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.

Written by Ivar

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The church of Rome massacred the Albigensian

As many as 60.000 Albigensian were massacred in France during a crusade from 1209 to 1229.

Cathars being expelled from Carcassonne in 1209.
Cathars being expelled from Carcassonne in 1209.

The Albigensian Crusade or Cathar Crusade (1209–1229) was a 20-year military campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III to eliminate Catharism in Languedoc, in the south of France.

Catharism (/ˈkæθərɪzəm/; from Greek: καθαροί, katharoi, “the pure”)[1] was a Christian dualist movement that thrived in some areas of Southern Europe, particularly northern Italy, northern Spain and southern France, former Occitania and Catalonia, between the 12th and 14th centuries. Cathar beliefs varied between communities because Catharism was initially taught by ascetic priests who had set few guidelines.

The skull of Saint Celia in Albi Cathedral, a city were all the Christians were massacred.
The skull of Saint Celia in Albi Cathedral, a city were all the Christians were massacred.

Roman Catholic “saint” Cecilia is know to have had an angel if Lucifer as her lover. Read more at this link.

The Albi Cathedral is built on a site of a former Chuch.
The Albi Cathedral is built on a site of a former Church, destroyed during the masscasre.

The Cathars were a direct challenge to the Catholic Church, which renounced its practices and dismissed it outright as the Church of Satan.

It is likely that we have only a partial view of their beliefs, because the writings of the Cathars were mostly destroyed because of the doctrinal threat perceived by the Papacy; much of our existing knowledge of the Cathars is derived from their opponents.

Cathars, in general, formed an anti-sacerdotal party in opposition to the Church of Rome, protesting against what they perceived to be the moral, spiritual and political corruption of the Church.

The Cathars also refused the Catholic Sacrament of the eucharist saying that it could not possibly be the body of Christ.

The doors of the church of St Mary Magdalene were broken down and the refugees dragged out and slaughtered. Reportedly, 7,000 people died there. Elsewhere in the town many more thousands were mutilated and killed. Prisoners were blinded, dragged behind horses, and used for target practice.

Arnaud-Amaury wrote to Pope Innocent III, “Today your Holiness, twenty thousand heretics were put to the sword, regardless of rank, age, or sex”.

The Inquisition was established in 1234 to uproot the remaining Cathars.[60] Operating in the south at Toulouse, Albi, Carcassonne and other towns during the whole of the 13th century, and a great part of the 14th, it succeeded in crushing Catharism as a popular movement and driving its remaining adherents underground.[60] Cathars who refused to recant were hanged, or burnt at the stake.

From May 1243 to March 1244, the Cathar fortress of Montségur was besieged by the troops of the seneschal of Carcassonne and the archbishop of Narbonne.[62] On 16 March 1244, a large and symbolically important massacre took place, where over 200 Cathar Perfects were burnt in an enormous pyre at the prat dels cremats (“field of the burned”) near the foot of the castle

Hunted by the Inquisition and deserted by the nobles of their districts, the Cathars became more and more scattered fugitives: meeting surreptitiously in forests and mountain wilds.

After several decades of harassment and re-proselytising, and perhaps even more importantly, the systematic destruction of their religious texts, the sect was exhausted and could find no more adepts. The leader of a Cathar revival in the Pyrenean foothills, Peire Autier was captured and executed in April 1310 in Toulouse.

Source: Wikipedia

Written by Ivar

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Roman Catholics pray in front of a “holy bone”

If you ever visit Macao, you are invited to venerate or adore the right arm of Francis Xavier, a priest from Spain.

The Bible says man shall not bow down to created things, and declare them holy.

The debate on the difference of worship of idols is a frequent issue on New That Matters. The Roman Catholic Church claim that they do not worship idols, but admit that the Vatican promotes adoration and veneration of relics, even bones.

The reader might ask:

What is the difference between worship, adoration and veneration?

The Bible does not make any distinction between these three words. Forget of adoring images or idols in the name of “god”. God of the Bible does not want his followers to even make such items, and claim created things to be “holy”.

The Roman Catholics bows down before a bone of Francis Xavier, and pray.

Neither does God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit want people to bow down in front of them.

Exodus 20:3-5
“You shall have no other gods before me.

“You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.

In the King James version the words “adore” or “Venerate” is not mentioned at all. In the NIV, the word “adore” appears once.

Worship is mentioned 188 times in the King James version. In the NIV, 254 times.

So the Roman Catholic explanation about a difference between the three words, are based on human wisdom and man-made doctrines.

This is the official version about the adoration and veneration, or shall we say worship of the bone in Macao.

Another place that we visited in Macao was the chapel of St. Joseph’s seminary, where a relic of St. Francis Xavier’s right arm is venerated (the other half is at the Church of the Gesù in Rome).

There are also other interesting pictures of Roman Catholics bowing down to and kissing relics.

A Catholic Bishop bow down and pray in front of a “Holy relic”. Only adoration? To all who can see, this looks like worship.
Vatican priests forces a boy to kiss a relic.
A Police officer bows, and kisses what the Roman priests claim is “Holy”.
A Catholic lady bows down, and a priest touches her head with a relic.
Catholic priest offering incense in front of a box with relics.

One of the most obvious evidence of wrongdoing, is a Cardinal bowing before a box with a relic.  This is a photo of what the Roman Catholic Church claims is a “holy man”. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor venerates the relics of St Therese of Lisieux.”

Source of this photo.

There is not much we can do with men like Cardinal O’Connor. He seems to be a cursed man, who will refuse to repent from his worship, adoration and veneration of created things in the name of “god”. But you do not have to follow His example. Please repent, or you too will perish.

Revelation 9:20
The rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the work of their hands; they did not stop worshiping demons, and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.

Revelation 22:14-16
“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.  Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

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