into leather
By Diogenes (articles ) | November 29, 2007 8:08 AM
From Britain comes a holiday season gift suggestion in quiet good taste.
A book bound in the skin of an executed Jesuit priest was to be auctioned in England. The macabre, 17th-century book tells the story of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot and is covered in the hide of Father Henry Garnet.
The buyer needn't fear protests from PETA.
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Nov. 29, 2007 10:53 AM ET USA
If anyone is curious about what I would like for Christmas .......
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Posted by: -
Nov. 29, 2007 9:04 AM ET USA
Would this not be a religious relic of a martyr?
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Posted by: -
Nov. 29, 2007 8:39 AM ET USA
If indeed this is the case, the book should be treated with the reverence due to a dead human being, let alone possibly a Catholic martyr,who seemingly was executed on trumped-up charges. Let it be burned and quietly buried with the thought that many of our contemporary Jesuits will not have such a great opportunity to prove their own worth. Then again, many are called, but few....
