Van Gerard ontving ik gisteren een mailtje:
“Ik heb vandaag genoten van Eliane's tekening van het mannelijk apparaat, compleet met halo en rozenkrans. Zet hem op morgen!”
Voor Eliane en mij een aanmoediging lijkt me. Eliane kan alle opdrachten nauwelijks aan en ik kan mijn tegenstanders niet allemaal matzetten. Bedankt Gerard voor je steun in de rug. Gerard heeft kennelijk op internet gezien dat ik gisteren verloor evenals Jan Nagel. Nagel en Gerard kennen elkaar nog van hun gymnasiumtijd.
Wil ik weer op een 50% score komen dan moet ik vandaag en morgen winnen, dat lijkt me niet eenvoudig maar ik zal mijn best doen. Ruud speelde gisteren remise.
Niet NRC lezers zullen zich misschien verbazen over de rots met het dorpje Calcata en het daarbij hangende “mannelijke apparaat”. Helaas, ik moet weer gaan schaken en ik weet trouwens ook niets van de heilige voorhuid van Jezus die in de rots van Calcata verborgen lag!
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Uit de Wikipedia:
Holy Prepuce of Calcata
According to legends of the village of Calcata, in 1527 a soldier in the German army sacking Rome looted the Sanctum Sanctorum; when he was eventually captured in the village, he hid the jeweled reliquary containing the Holy Prepuce in his cell, where it was discovered in 1557 and officially venerated by the Catholic Church since that time, offering a ten year indulgence to pilgrims. Calcata thus became a popular site for pilgrimage.[1]
In 1856, however, the abbey of Charoux rediscovered what it considered to be the true Holy Prepuce, which it claimed to have received from Charlemagne but which had been lost for centuries. The rediscovery led to a theological clash with the established Holy Prepuce of Calcata, which had been officially venerated by the Church for hundreds of years; in 1900, the Catholic Church solved the dilemma by ruling that anyone thenceforward writing or speaking of the Holy Prepuce would be excommunicated. In 1954, after much debate, the punishment was changed to the harsher degree of excommunication, vitandi (shunned); the Second Vatican Council then removed the Day of the Holy Circumcision from the church calendar .[2]
Nevertheless, the village continued to stage an annual procession on the Day of the Holy Circumsion to honor the relic. In 1983, however, parish priest Dario Magnoni announced that "This year, the holy relic will not be exposed to the devotion of the faithful. It has vanished. Sacrilegious thieves have taken it from my home", where it had reportedly been kept in a shoebox in the back of a wardrobe. Citing the Vatican's decree of excommunication, Magnoni refuses to further discuss the event, as does the Vatican. As a result, villagers' theories of the crime vary from theft for lucrative resale to an effort by the Vatican to quietly put an end to the practice it had attempted to end by excommunication years ago; some going so far as to speculate that Magnoni himself may have been the culprit.
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