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...wait, he's a teenager now? That can't be right. He must be a millennial who died as a teenager.
There's some weird Saint art, did you know that? Like, they're depicted holding chickens or their own severed breasts or even their entrails.
(Godless redneck over here who is nevertheless fascinated by this stuff...)
@janallmac I think I recall St Sebastian was flailed to death and is usually depicted carrying his skin folded over one arm 😱
@janallmac @stueytheround @LiberalLibrarian I didn't know about this guy who the Catholics are seeking to process.
Here is what the BBC are sharing today
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I'm fascinated and slightly heartbroken by the mortuary science happening here. Poor kid. 😢 Hope there's a heaven and he's in it.
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There's a bunch of pictures of him in his glass-sided coffin, which I find unsettling.
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There's embalming happening, too, mark my words. I hope he'd be OK with his body being used that way, probably he would be?