Posted on 10/13/2013 8:17:11 PM PDT by jodyel
Exactly what I’m talkin’ ‘bout!!
Lenin is still looking alright these days, so is he incorruptible and a saint too?
Or does that count only if one is Catholic?
http://depletedcranium.com/comrade-lenin-gets-a-bath/
You can make anybody look incorruptible if you fuss and fix it enough.
Bu that don’t make it right and it sure don’t make it a saint!
Good article and important advice to ALL believers.
Yes, indeed. If only people here would read what we post and what we say and really take it to heart...many souls could be saved.
Arthur,
Do you actually read anything I post to you?
Just wondering.
Thanks,
Jodyel
They didn’t bury Lenin (without embalming) and then exhume him fifty years later.
All the same stuff, Arthur, and I see you have ignored the last question I put to you.
Before his defense of Dreyfus, Zola had written a book called “Lourdes.” He had promised to tell the French people the true story of Lourdes. What he produced was probably one of the greatest lies in the history of literature, the “Da Vinci Code” of its day. In researching his novel “Lourdes,” Zola spent three weeks there. On the train to Lourdes, he got to know a very sick young woman named Marie LeMarchand . She had lupus, tuberculosis and festering sores on her legs and face. Zola had said to Dr. Boissariee, one of the attending physicians at Lourdes, that, “I only wanted to see a cut finger dipped in the water and come out cured.” Marie LeMarchand was immersed in the baths at Lourdes and was instantly healed, her lesions and sores disappeared and her skin was made new. Dr. Boissariee said to the distinguished Mr. Zola, “Ah, Monsieur Zola, behold the case of your dreams!” Zola replied, “ I don’t want to look at her. To me she is still ugly.” Zola witnessed three astonishing healings at Lourdes, but told Dr. Boissariee that if “I were to see all the sick at Lourdes healed, I would not believe in a miracle.” In his novel, he referred to another case he had witnessed; that of Marie Lebranchu who was in the final stages of tuberculosis. She, too, was instantly healed. Zola kept in touch with the Ms. Lebranchu for a long while after her healing, just to make sure her cure was permanent. It was. She lived for 26 more years. Yet, in his novel Zola portrays her as “La Grivotte,” dying on the train home. He lied and became rich and famous by doing so, Captain Dreyfus notwithstanding!
http://www.rev-know-it-all.com/2009/2009-—09-13.html
Zola attached himself to an 18-year-old girl named Marie Lemarchand who was afflicted with three seemingly incurable diseases: an advanced stage of lupus, pulmonary tuberculosis, and leg ulcerations the size of an adult’s hand. Zola describes the girl’s face on the way to Lourdes as being eaten away by the lupus: “The whole was a frightful distorted mass of matter and oozing blood.” The girl went into the baths and emerged completely cured. One of the doctors present wrote, “On her return from the baths I at once followed her to the hospital. I recognized her well although her face was entirely changed.” The doctors who examined her could also find nothing wrong with her lungs, both of which had been infected with tuberculosis, causing the patient to cough and spit blood. Sixteen years later, she was still in perfect health and the cure was designated as official.
Zola was there when she came out of the baths. He had said, “I only want to see a cut finger dipped in water and come out healed.” The President of the Medical Bureau, Dr. Boissarie, was standing beside him. “Ah, Monsieur Zola, behold the case of your dreams!” “I don’t want to look at her,” replied Zola. “To me she is still ugly.” And he walked away.
Zola subsequently witnessed a second cure at Lourdes, that of a Mlle. Lebranchu, who was suffering from the final stages of tuberculosis. He told Dr. Boissarie, “Were I to see all the sick at Lourdes cured, I would not believe in a miracle.” He put the second cure in his novel Lourdes (1894), but depicted the woman as relapsing into her former condition on her way home, the implication being that the cure was neither permanent nor supernatural, but rather a case of autosuggestion in an hysterical religious atmosphere.
But Zola, who remained in communication with the woman long after her recovery, was perfectly aware that there had been no relapse. When Dr. Boissarie questioned him as to the honesty of his account, pointing out that Zola had said that he had come to Lourdes to make an impartial investigation, Zola replied that he was an artist and could do whatever he liked with his material.
http://www.crisismagazine.com/1989/belief-and-unbelief-i-emile-zola-at-lourdes
I’m so glad you’ll be the one explaining why you wasted so much time on all this gobbledygook to the Lord on judgment day and not me!
Sheesh, what a load of tripe!
And I actually thought you wanted a sincere dialogue when you sent me that communion of the saints thing and I wrote back my honest assessment. Serves me right for thinking any Catholic here wants to know the truth instead of drowning themselves in dead people.
The sorrow will be never-ending when you guys finally see what you have missed out on for the sideshow carnival that is Roman Catholicism.
Wish so badly I could make you see. Open their eyes, Lord, open their eyes!!
Yowza!!!...Do not get it!!!...And don’t wanna get it!!!I suppose you wouldn't like this one then... Ha! http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2013/10/meet-the-fantastically-bejeweled-skeletons-of-catholicisms-forgotten-martyrs/
Girl!!!
Gag me with a spoon!!
Creepy, ugly, and downright ghastly!
But I still like you!!
Girl!!! Gag me with a spoon!!Ha! I just knew you'd like them.
A friend of mine dated her in college.
Bet he has some stories to tell! lol
Does Jesus die on the cross again, each time you read one of the Gospels?
That would be lovely, and I hope so.
Waste of a lot of bling in my opinion. :)
Waste of a lot of bling in my opinion. :)Ruh-roh! :)
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