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1 | Why is there a skull next to St.Francis? | Eccl 7:2 | Snookims | 197906 | ||
I know this may sound weird. I was in Church, for the Christmas Mass, and my Son and I noticed the Statue of St.Francis. It was him in a brown robe and beside his feet was a human skull. My question is does anybody know why there is a skull next to his feet? Isn't St. Francis the patron saint of animals? I know this is a weird question but my son and I are just really curious and it's bothering me. Oh yes, and thank you to all and Merry Christmas! | ||||||
2 | Why is there a skull next to St.Francis? | Eccl 7:2 | Michael Draves | 197907 | ||
http://www.franciscan-archive.org/patriarcha/opera/canticle.html The Canticle of Brother Son or The Praises of the Creatures: May Thou be praised, my Lord, for our sister, bodily death, whom no man living can escape Woe to those, who die in mortal sin: blessed those whom she will find in Thy most holy desires, because the second death will do them no evil (cf. Apoc 2:11; 20:6) http://www.franciscan-archive.org/patriarcha/opera/letters.html A Letter to the Faithful - An Exhortation to the Brothers and Sisters of Penance However all those men and women, who are not in penance, · and do not receive the Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, · and work vices and sins and who walk after wicked concupiscence and the wicked desires of their flesh, · and do not observe, what they have promised the Lord, 35 · and serve the world bodily by carnal desires and anxious concerns (sollicitudo) for the world (saeculum) and by the cares of this life: · (these) held back by the devil, whose sons they are and whose works they do (cf. Jn 8:41), 36 are blind, · because they do not see the True Light, Our Lord Jesus Christ. · They do not have spiritual wisdom, because they do not have the Son of God who is the True Wisdom of the Father, · of whom it is said: "Their wisdom is swallowed up" (Ps 106:27 - Rom. Ps.); and "Cursed are they who turn away from Thy mandates" (Ps 118:21). · They see and acknowledge, they know and work wicked things and they themselves knowingly loose their souls. · See, blind ones, deceived by your enemies: by the flesh, the world, and the devil; that it is sweet to the body to work sin and bitter to work to serve God; · because all vices and sins come forth and "proceed from the heart of man," just as the Lord says in the Gospel (cf. Mk 7:21). · And you shall have nothing in this age nor in the one to come. · And you think you will posses the vanities of this generation (saeculum) for a long time, but you have been deceived, since there shall come the day and hour, of which you do not think, know or pay attention; the body weakens, death approaches and thus one dies a bitter death. · And wherever, whenever, however a man dies in culpable sin, without penance and satisfaction, if he can make satisfaction and does not make satisfaction, the devil tears his soul from his body with such anguish and tribulation, that no one can know it, except him who experiences it. · And all the talents and power and "knowledge and wisdom" (2 Chron 1:12), which they thought they had, is borne away from them (cf. Lk 8:18; Mk 4:25). · And he bequeathed (these) to neighbors and friends and these bore off and divided his substance, 37 and said afterwards: "Cursed be his soul, since he could have given us more and acquired what he did not acquire." · Worms eat the body, and thus perished body and soul in this short age and they shall go into Hell, where they will be tortured without end. |
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3 | Why is there a skull next to St.Francis? | Eccl 7:2 | DocTrinsograce | 197912 | ||
"Great importance was soon attached to external marks of repentance -- to tears, fasting, and mortification of the flesh; and inward regeneration of the heart, which alone constitutes a real conversion, was forgotten. "As confession and penance are easier than the extirpation of sin and the abandonment of vice, many ceased contending against the lusts of the flesh, and preferred gratifying them at the expense of a few mortifications. "The penitential works, thus substituted for the salvation of God, were multiplied in the Church from Tertullian down to the thirteenth century. Men were required to fast, to go barefoot, to wear no linen, etc.; to quit their homes and their native land for distant countries; or to renounce the world and embrace a monastic life. "In the eleventh century voluntary flagellations were super added to these practices; somewhat later they become quite a mania in Italy, which was then in a very disturbed state. Nobles and peasants, old and young, even children of five years of age, whose only covering was a cloth tied round the middle, went in pairs, by hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands, through the towns and villages, visiting the churches in the depth of winter. Armed with scourges, they flogged each other without pity, and the streets resounded with cries and groans that drew tears from all who heard them." --Agrippa d'Aubigne (1552-1630) Yikes! I think I'll stick with the satisfaction accomplished by Christ alone, by grace alone, through faith alone, to the glory of God alone. |
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