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Offline SimpleMan

Haydock Bible used as a prop on Saturday Night Live?
« on: December 21, 2021, 08:35:37 PM »
I was absent-mindedly kind of half-watching SNL this evening, and all of a sudden I looked up and saw this:



Pretty much identical to this:

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Offline DigitalLogos

Re: Haydock Bible used as a prop on Saturday Night Live?
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2021, 08:55:12 PM »
Sure looks like it
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Offline SimpleMan

Re: Haydock Bible used as a prop on Saturday Night Live?
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2021, 09:49:39 PM »
Quote from: DigitalLogos on December 21, 2021, 08:55:12 PM
Sure looks like it
I looked at many antique Bibles on Google, and the Haydock is the only one that looks anything like that.

They have to get all those props from someplace.  Perhaps a used book dealer in Manhattan had this, or they could even have ordered it on eBay.

If you will ever notice, Catholicism in movies and other video productions almost always tends to display imagery of the more traditional variety, precisely because it calls attention to itself and can't be mistaken for anything else.  A nun wearing secular clothes isn't obviously a nun.  A nun in full habit could not possibly be anything else.
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Offline DigitalLogos

Re: Haydock Bible used as a prop on Saturday Night Live?
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2021, 09:53:10 PM »
Quote from: SimpleMan on December 21, 2021, 09:49:39 PM
I looked at many antique Bibles on Google, and the Haydock is the only one that looks anything like that.

They have to get all those props from someplace.  Perhaps a used book dealer in Manhattan had this, or they could even have ordered it on eBay.

If you will ever notice, Catholicism in movies and other video productions almost always tends to display imagery of the more traditional variety, precisely because it calls attention to itself and can't be mistaken for anything else.  A nun wearing secular clothes isn't obviously a nun.  A nun in full habit could not possibly be anything else.
It's kind of the same phenomenon where you see Catholic religious in movies depicted on the more conservative NO-traditional end of things rather than the Pastor Bob of the Novus Ordo Mass Center that is widespread.

The Conjuring films come to mind in this regard (which I honestly really enjoy), but I also know that the Warrens were more traddies than NO in reality anyway.
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Offline Minnesota

Re: Haydock Bible used as a prop on Saturday Night Live?
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2021, 09:56:49 PM »
Weird... that's a very specialized thing that you wouldn't really know about unless you are in the in-group. 

That group is pre-Vatican II Catholic theology and commentary on Scripture from a specific priest in a specific time. Methinks they needed something Catholic-looking.
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