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Originally Posted by Romeo Rovagnati
Well, according to various sources, he/she is a virgin who comes in help of Buddhists who chant a prayer dedicated to her boss (another Buddha). Japanese Catholics used her statue and pretended it was Mary, because he/she shares some of the similarities (and it is not the only similarity we share with the various Buddhist schools in the East).
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Well, nobody questions the fact that there were some mutual plagiarisms between these two false cults.
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Well, it is hard to explain to people who don't believe in a Catholic "idolatry". But let's say that we Catholics know that Mary is one. However we also know that she appears in different forms (that i will not list because there are too many of them).
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And what if a parish of Our Lady of Częstochowa is visited by another image of Our Lady of Częstochowa, but the visiting one is actually coming from the place where the original Our Lady of Częstochowa is hosted? Mind this - it is not the original image that is doing the visiting (that one never leaves the church), but one copy visits another copy?
I can feel a migraine coming.
(That's "her" on the right, by the way)
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As for the lack of use of dead bodies, don't worry, we haven't forgotten them, we still have some bones of our Saints in their Cathedrals, not to always to public eyes tought.
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Protip: you need to do more to hide these atrocities.
Below is a photo I took in an old church (architecture ca AD 1300, but the interior has been vigorously updated several times over the centuries, so it's hard to tell how old that part of a corpse is).
CAUTION: not for the squeamish - scroll down at your own risk!
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