Will Cookson gives the answer to the question "Are these the nails that crucified Jesus?" And it's a "No". Shame, really. But if Simcha Jacobovici wants to post them down to Husborne Crawley, I'll stick them in a drawer with all the others. That's the drawer above the one that contains the teeth of St Apollonia. Or, at least, ninety-three of them. And below the big cupboard with all the heads of St John the Baptist. The one we made out of fragments of the True Cross.
I think I'll hang my nice photo of Jesus's tomb on the wall as well. Or maybe this tomb. Or better still, both. They'd make a nice collection, wouldn't they?
Wikipedia notes that the belief that 3 nails were used in the Crucifixion is called "Triclavianism", and was condemned as a heresy. Which makes one wonder how slim a hair can be split, and just how big a pin you need to get angels to dance.
I would only attempt three rusty nails these days and I'm no angel ;)
ReplyDeleteAre but they only found two rusty nails. Seems an even worse heresy than that of three nails!!
ReplyDeleteDid they only nail a foot and one hand? Or did they nail the hands but not the feet?
I feel a papal bull coming