Quote from: claudel

Quote from: Charlemagne

Quote from: TheKnightVigilant

Andy, what do you think about the JPII cross collapsing upon and killing a man three days before these false canonizations?

Give him time to search for some nonapplicable prooftexts.

He won't need much. His patron, Saint Internet,* will give him a few thousand words of private revelation in a matter of minutes.

Here's what andysloan should be looking for:  

Marco Gusmini died a 'martyr' because, well, he died.  According to Newchurch everyone who dies is a martyr, and you won't have to look hard to back that up.  

Therefore, this cross-falling event (it wasn't a crucifix because it had no INRI on top, which is necessary for every crucifix to have or else it's just a cross) was a thing that 'sanctified' the Newcanonizations of both JPII (who was commemorated in the cross monument that collapsed and killed Mr. Gusmini) and John XXIII (because Gusmini had been living on a street named after John XXIII), by producing a new martyr for the
'church'.  

See for yourself:  there is no INRI on the top of this cross:  




The sculptor Enrico Job most likely felt the INRI would be unnecessarily cluttering to his otherwise minimalist work of whatever-it-is.  


.