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[onager]

A monastery featuring a former stripper/lap dancer turned nun?!? Damn, I would have paid to see that!

Pope shuts down famous monastery that liked to party

ROME (AFP, May 24) — Pope Benedict XVI has shut down a famous community in Rome that organised dances by a former nightclub dancer nun and hosted VIPs like Madonna, earning the disfavour of the Vatican. The closure of the monastery of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, which holds some of the Church's most prized relics, was reported by Italian dailies La Stampa and Il Foglio...

One of the nuns who performed at the church, a former disco dancer, can be seen in a YouTube video performing a modern dance with a crucifix. The basilica's longtime abbot, Simone Fioraso, a flamboyant former Milan fashion designer, was already moved out of the basilica two years ago.

Pope Benedict, the leader of the world's 1.1 billion Catholics, is also the bishop of Rome, so the basilica is part of his diocese.

Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, built around a chapel dating to the fourth century, is one of Rome's oldest and most prestigious churches.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/24/pope-shuts-down-famous-party-monastery-with-prancing-nuns/


La Stampa also reported on Saturday that the Basilica's Abbey was closed down due to its recurring liturgical abuses and "rumors of questionable behavior and lack of moral discipline in the monastic community." It appears, according to AFP, that "some unorthodox practices including dances in which nuns pranced around the altar" have often caused scandal at Santa Croce...

Other bizarre practices associated with Santa Croce...included the provision of a limousine service for wealthy pilgrims and an internal shop that sold exclusive foods, perfumes and the like...

Santa Croce in Gerusalemme is one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome, and was possibly founded by Constantine the Great in 325. The floor was originally covered with soil from Jerusalem, hence its name.

The Basilica owns some of Christendom's most prized relics, including the Titulus Crucis (the wooden panel on which Pilate had Christ's name and title inscribed), two thorns from the Crown of Thorns, an incomplete nail from the Crucifixion, and three small wooden pieces of the True Cross itself. Other relics housed at Santa Croce include a large fragment from the Good Thief's cross, a bone from St Thomas's finger - the one that was inserted into the wounds of the Risen Christ, and various other implements of the Passion.

http://areluctantsinner.blogspot.com/2011/05/benedictine-reform-continues.html

[laconicsax]

1. LOL to those "prized relics!"

:rofl:

I wonder what happened to the rest of the incomplete nail... :spray:

[Sonoman]

2. Or the rest of St Thomas, for that matter.

I think they just make that shit up.

Sonoman

[onager]

5. But they don't have the BIG prize...

I remember reading somewhere...and this is the kind of fact that sticks in my head: at one point in the Middle Ages, no less than 47 different cathedrals all claimed they had the foreskin of Jesus. So maybe "hung on the cross" has more than one meaning.

Reading that list of relics, I thought for a minute I must be in the Middle Ages. Guess not, the internet is still working...

[Angry Dragon]

3. I have some kegs of wine that Jesus made from water

I wonder if they would be interested in buying them
Pasted down to me ...............

[dimbear]

4. The Titulus Crucis has been carbon dated to about CE1000.

I think that must add something to its important authenticity. Plus the fact the writing on it is backwards. Not sure what that means.