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Four versions: Skulls of John Chrysostom

Claimed skulls of  St. John Chrysostom is located in the Cathedral in Florence, in a Roman Catholic shrine in Pisa, in Moscow and on Mount Athos in Greece.

The Russian version of the skull of the “saint” arrived in New York for veneration 6th of February 2010.

John Chrysostom (347–407.AD) was Archbishop of Constantinople, and considered an important Early Church Father.

He is recognized by the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church as a saint and as a Doctor of the Church.

It is worth noticing that the Roman Catholic Church has admitted that they stole the remains of the Byzantine priest, and took it to Rome. The present Pope returned the stolen bones, explained by wikipedia.

 Most of John’s relics were looted from Constantinople by Crusaders in 1204 and taken to Rome, but some of his bones were returned to the Orthodox on 27 November 2004 by Pope John Paul II.

Neither theft of bones, nor grave looting, seems to be noble acts.

But the battle for the corpse, skull and bones of this archbishop is more grotesque than this example of criminal priests becoming robbers. There are four Churches who claim to have the skull of the same “saint”. One in Russia, one in Greece and not less than two Roman Catholic Churches in Italy.

Let us again read that wikipedia has recorded:

 The skull was kept at the Moscow Kremlin, in the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God, until 1920, when it was confiscated by the Soviets and placed in the Museum of Silver Antiquities.

  In 1988, in connection with the 1000th Anniversary of the Baptism of Russia, the Head, together with other important relics, was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church and kept at the Epiphany Cathedral, until being moved to the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour after its restoration.

 However, today, the Vatopedi Monastery posits a rival claim to possession of the skull of St. John Chrysostom, and there a skull is venerated by pilgrims to the monastery as that of St John.

Two places in Italy also claim to have the skull of St. John Chrysostom: the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence and the Dal Pozzo chapel in Pisa.

Source: Wikipedia

Lets take a look at the other three claimed version of the skull of this man who died more than 1.600 years ago:

The claimed skull of Chrysostom is kept for adoration  inside the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Florence in Italy.
The Greek version of the skull. There is an open door to the “ear”, so the faithful Greek Orthodox can pray.

Exodus 20:5
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 fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.

The second Italian version of the skull, is located in a Roman Catholic shrine in Pisa.

 Deuteronomy 4:28
There you will worship man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

The Russians at least do not scare the children, but put their skulls in proper golden boxes.
The box with the Russian skull has a top opening. It looks a little bit like the surface of the planet Mars.

A major Roman Catholic news agency has reported “miracles’ from one of these skulls. Remarkably not with the two versions found in Roman Catholic shrines.

 Two miraculous cures have been reported in Cyprus as a result of contact with the skull of St. John Chrysostom, according to the Associated Press. Father Paraskevas Agathonos claimed the visiting relic, which normally resides in a monastery in northern Greece, had healed a partially paralyzed teenager and a woman with a broken leg.

Source: Catholic News Agency  (CNA)

 Matthew 24:24
For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were possible.

The Russians are trilled that their “holy head” paid New York City a visit in February 2010:

 The sacred head will not be touring America, but will remain at Synod until the final day of its stay, when it will be taken to St. Nicholas Cathedral, the Russian Patriarchal Cathedral a few blocks away.

 The head of St. John Chrysostom is being sent to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Sign, in New York City, from the Church of Christ the Saviour, in Moscow, for a week, early in February. (2010, February 26).

Source: Monachos.net

My comment:

First: We have to give thanks to Jesus the Messiah for exposing all this religious fraud, so people can get a chance to be delivered, to repent and be saved.

Second: It is difficult to use suitable words for this kind of morbid spiritual madness. Only a spirit that has its origin in the bottomless pit, can make priests, bishops, cardinals and Popes fight to gain control of skulls, corpses and bones.

That this war goes on up to this very day, should have been used as an eye opener for all men on the face of the Earth. All seven billion of us.

The Roman Catholic Church claim to be the original, the true “Holy mother Church”. But she does not only adore and venerate skulls in their hundreds. This Church even have double sets of skulls.

The Russian Orthodox and Greek Orthodox “Churches” and members of World Council of Churches (WCC). They do not seem to make much a difference.

What better proof do you need to see that these are religious movements of liars who are involved in shameless fraud?

It is difficult to phantom that the Vatican can “bless” two claimed skulls of the same man, and both of them being located in Roman Catholic “shrines” in Italy.

If you are not able to renounce this horrible wicked and perverted religious movement, I can not help you.  No message of corruption and fraud linked to the Papacy will make you repent, and escape the waiting eternal lake of fire.

There is a judgment coming. The judgment will be both fair and just.

Repent or perish.

Written by Ivar

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Roman Catholic nuns fought and got half of saints boiled skull

The skull of Saint Brébeuf can be adored in Martyr’s Shrine near Midland, Ontario, in Canada. But only half of it.

Roman Catholics can adore half of a skull in Canada. The other half was given to nuns, and disappeared.

If this had only been one of the thousands of skulls venerated and adored in Roman Catholic Churches, I would not have written this article. I have already written more than enough about worship of bones inside this death cult.  But the story behind this skull makes it worthy of some extra publicity.

This is what have been recorded by Wikipedia:

Brébeuf did not make a single outcry while he was being tortured and he astounded the Iroquois, who later cut out his heart and ate it in hopes of gaining his courage Brébeuf was fifty-five years old.

 Brébeuf’s body was recovered a few days later. His body was boiled in lye to remove the flesh, and the bones became church relics. His flesh was buried, along with Lalemant’s, in one coffin, and today rests in the Church of St. Joseph at the reconstructed Jesuit mission of Sainte-Marie among the Hurons across Highway 12 from the Martyrs’ Shrine Catholic Church near Midland, Ontario

In September, 1984, Pope John Paul II prayed over Brebeuf’s skull before saying an outdoor Mass on the grounds of the Martyrs’ Shrine. Thousands of people came to hear him speak from a platform built especially for the day.

Source: Wikipedia

According to Catholic Encyclopedia, this Jesuit missionary died a horrible death on March 16th 1649 A.D. 90 days later the body was ex-hummed. The Catholic Encyclopedia do not record the beginning of the process of beautification of the body.

This is what Suite101 has recorded:

 On June 16, 1649, the remaining missionaries set fire to the mission, rather than see it desecrated or overrun by the Iroquois. At the same time, they had also decided that Brebeuf and Lallemant would be canonized as saints. Accordingly, their bodies were exhumed and boiled in a lye solution. Their flesh was reburied and their bones wrapped in linen and saved as relics.

Read more at Suite101:
An ecclesiastical court sat in 1904 for an entire year to examine his life and virtues and the cause of his death, and the result of the inquiry was forwarded to Rome. Brebeuf was cannonized in 1930, by Pope Pius XI.

The story is indeed a challenge to all reflecting humans.

St. Joseph Church, the Martyrs Shrine in Ontario Canada.
Not many half skulls are covered with so much gold, and are kept by people who claim to honor “god”.

Boiling a dead body in lye to get the flesh and bones to separate, makes me think of how men treat dead animals, when they make soup or dinner.

And why re-bury the boiled flesh, without its bones?

Are there some special powers in a dead man bones, that boiled flesh do not contain?

How will the Pope and his priests enter the Kingdom of Heaven? Frankly: Can religious activities get more perverse and grotesque?

But let us leave the boiling part of the sorry for a second.

The greater mystery is why the Pope felt for praying over half of the skull.

This is what another website has recorded:

 Actually, it only the left half of his skull that inhabits Martyrs’ Shrine.

Was this decided because that part of the skull encased the left brain that enabled Brebeuf to learn several Native American languages?

Not that fluency in their tongue stopped the Iroquois from hanging red-hot tomahawks around his neck.

And where is his right skull?

Source: Blogger

The Catholic legend gets even more intriguing when we really dive deep into the details. What happened to the other half’s of the skull?

Just take a look at this:

“Yes, the bones were entrusted to the Ursuline Order of nuns in Québec for safekeeping, but once Brébuf was proclaimed a saint, the Jesuits asked for them back. The Ursulines were not amused as they thought that they had done a good job and wanted to keep half, so at Martyrs’ Shrine there’s only one-half of Brébuf’s skull (left side) while the nuns kept the other portion.”

Source: Tourist site.

My comment:

We might get puzzled with nuns fighting over a dead man bones, and demanding to keep half of his skull.

In fact it is so tragic, that I feel like crying. Many of these women wanted to enter nunnery to help people, and to come closer to God.

The physical issues linked to this legend are worrisome.

What makes people cut a skull in two?

How to you do that in the first place, without damaging the “holy” relic?

Was it the native Indians who cut the skull in two, or was it the local Jesuit’s? 

What do they find “holy” about the remains of a dead man, serving in a “Church” who beautified him after being ex-humed and boiled?

The theological implications are also worth a second thought.

Will both parts of the skull remain “holy”, or will only a united skull have the magic powers of restoration and healing?

Has the claimed infallible Pope made a mistake?

The Roman Catholic Church claims the  “Holy see” never fails when he beautifies his dead followers, and elevate them to the post of “saints”.

R.I.P

Written by Ivar

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Rome returned stolen skull of St. Irene

There is a lot of drama around people who fight over skulls. One of them is St. Irene.

The skull of St.Irene was stolen by Rome, but returned to its Orthodox owners.

This is what an Greek Orthodox web site has recorded:

 “Some of the relics of St. Irene may have been stolen by the Latin Crusaders during the sack of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade of 1204”. 

Source: St. Basil the Great.

It must be said that theft done by the claimed to be holy Roman Catholic Church, is regrettable.  At the end of the story, you will see that this criminal act were revoked in 1999, and the stolen skull returned.

The problem is that the Orthodox Church, accuse the Roman Catholic Church, not only of robbing their skulls. But also to “destroying holy places”.

 “The Latin sack of Constantinople changed the “sacred physiognomy” of the city as its holy places were destroyed and desecrated, only to be partially restored when the Byzantines took back the city in 1261”.

Lets take a deeper look into this robbery.

“St. Irene was born in the city of Magedon, Persia during the fourth century, circa 310 A.D. Her Christian name Irene means peace, and she was one of the twelve Virgin Martyrs who appeared to the eighteenth century Russian ascetic St. Seraphim of Sarov and the Diveyevo nun Eupraxia on the Feast of the Annunciation in 1831”.

This kind of acts by a “saint” raised many questions.

The skull was stolen in 1204, and not returned until 1999. Still the claimed to be saint appeared among a dozen virgins, to another saint and a nun in 1831.

Did St. Irene appear with our with our her stolen skull?

If the “saint” appeared with a skull, the “saint” must have been able to find its own stolen head. And if that happened, why did not the “saint” her self return her own head back to its rightful owners already in 1831?

If the “saint” appear without its head, how did it find its way?

Could this been an example of a false miracle and sign?  Or are the involved clergy just confused or misguided?

Most likely both. There is a need to come to a conclusion:

The Vatican is not only the largest collector of bones and skulls. The Roman Catholic Church is also a grand robber of pieces of dead mans flesh. Because if they were not robbers of this skull, why return the “holy item”?

Jesus the Messiah has a short message to religious people, who fight over bones.

 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 skull of saint John Cassian

The collected remains of the head of John Cassian is at best parts of a skull.

This holy skull is collected in a Roman Catholic Church in Marseilles in France.

This is what a website records about “Holy bones in Saint-Victor Abbey in Marseilles”.

Display of reliquaries containing osseous remains of early Christian saints and martyrs, including the skull of saint John Cassian (top middle), and morsels of saints Agatha, Benignus, Caesarius, Constant II, Facondi, Felicity, Fidelius, Fortunatus, Justin, and many others.

Lots of pieces of holy bones, have been collected in Marseilles.
The part of the skull is kept for adoration and veneration.

Source: Flickr.

My comment:

The most interesting part of this story is the bone collection inside the “Church” in Marseilles.

All kinds of pieces of bones are collected and kept in strange looking golden boxes. That this is holy bones, can only be confirmed by the crosses on top of the boxes.

To anyone who still doubts about the Roman Catholic Church being the skull and bones society,  take a look at the skull and bone files on this blog.

Lets also learn from Jesus. He spoke about people who he compare to dead bones, unclean people. Today we know that people who collect and adore bones, are not washed in His blood.

  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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