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Post by Bonobo on May 10, 2017 21:35:51 GMT 1
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Post by jeanne on May 10, 2017 23:46:59 GMT 1
Wow, I've never seen jewelry offered like that!
People here often offer flowers, and in some shrines they leave crutches and wheelchairs to testify to healings...but that's about all I've seen.
I would think the churches would fear theft of these items! Not everyone who enters a church is virtuous!
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Post by Bonobo on May 11, 2017 21:14:05 GMT 1
Wow, I've never seen jewelry offered like that! People here often offer flowers, and in some shrines they leave crutches and wheelchairs to testify to healings...but that's about all I've seen. I would think the churches would fear theft of these items! Not everyone who enters a church is virtuous! Crutches, yes. Wheelchairs - wow - no!  The theft.... hmm.... thieves steal much more valuable stuff like pure silver or old icons. |
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Post by jeanne on May 12, 2017 16:29:21 GMT 1
Wow, I've never seen jewelry offered like that! People here often offer flowers, and in some shrines they leave crutches and wheelchairs to testify to healings...but that's about all I've seen. I would think the churches would fear theft of these items! Not everyone who enters a church is virtuous! Crutches, yes. Wheelchairs - wow - no! The theft.... hmm.... thieves steal much more valuable stuff like pure silver or old icons. Yes, silver (and gold) are vulnerable to thieves here, also. I didn't think about old icons. Catholicism is so "new" here in the United States that our churches really don't have any "old" icons... |
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