Religious Stuff

[ivyblossom]

As I've mentioned before, I collect religious stuff. All forms of religious stuff. At first I just had my matching Jesus and Mary nightlights, but since my high school days I've branched into more serious religious paraphernalia.

Generally my collection grows when my parents travel, and since they always travel right around my birthday, I get extra-special religious stuff. My collection to date isn't huge, but it's nice looking: I have an orthrodox icon of St. George that looks remarkably like this one, a portrait of Martin Luther, a couple of smaller icons from Russia, a a pocket sized guardian guardian angel icon, a copy of a medieval manuscript illumination, a page from an early translation of the bible into English, an evil eye from Turkey, and so forth. It's good fun. I mean, my mother collects Royal Doulton and Iladros, so my collection is just a little...different.

Anyway, my parents were in Spain this time, and strangely they came home with another very nice orthodox icon for me (Madonna and child), but I have no idea why there would be orthodox iconography in SPAIN. But ah well. Mom also picked up something extremely interesting for me at the Fatima shrine in Portugal: a rosary. A rosary made of roses.

It's like, they take rose petals and press them into beads. When I first got it I thought it was soap. I mean, it smells very strongly of roses, so I said, "Oh, soap? That's nice." I'm supposed to be the one who knows something about this, I mean, that's the smell of SANCTITY, not SOAP. Well, they say cleanliness is close to godliness, don't they.

Anyway, it's extremely cool. I just wanted to mention how cool it is.

Comments

[presentiment.livejournal.com]

Does sound cool (:

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

:D

[presentiment.livejournal.com]

I don't collect religious things, though I do have a healthy appreciation for them.

I collect lots of random things though! Mostly historical. I've got papyrus with Egyptian hieroglyphs (not an original, though I love it just the same), a Mayan plate from Mexico (this one is an original, and a prized posession), and many other things.

[argentus.livejournal.com]

a rosary. A rosary made of roses.

I have one also. I got mine somewhere in Spain, I think at the valley of the fallen. Hmm...small world.

[squigeon.livejournal.com]

Those rose rosaries are all over the place in Spain. I went on a tour of cathedrals there a few years ago, and the rosaries were sold at almost every one. Pretty and smell good. I should've gotten one. :P

[tocomfortyou.livejournal.com]

Your hobby sounds fascinating. :)

I mean, that's the smell of SANCTITY, not SOAP. Well, they say cleanliness is close to godliness, don't they.

Hee.

a page from an early translation of the bible into English

Like, the actual page or just a reproduction? About how old? Sorry for the questions, but I'm fascinated by 'old stuff' and I think it'd be really amazing to have a piece of centuries-old-paper in my possession.

[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

It's an actual page, you can usually get them on ebay. :) I can't remember when it's from, I never unpacked it last year....it's early modern, that's all I can say. LOL Probably late 16th century, I think. So not THAT early but EARLY ENOUGH I reckon. :)

[tocomfortyou.livejournal.com]

Oooh! ::covets::

Then again, if I ever owned something like that, I'd probably use it to line the litter box by accident.

[turquoise-dream.livejournal.com]

I've got a rose rosary too.. my brother got it for me at a monastary in Spain.

[shadoedseptmbr.livejournal.com]

Aren't those rose-beads wonderous? I've got a recipe for them in an old herbology, calls for two pounds of rose petals picked at dawn. I've always thought it would be the height of luxury, to have two pounds of rosepetals to pick at daybreak.

[wicked-doom.livejournal.com]

It sounds cool. I'm odd, and I collect penguin things...anyway, nice choice for music too, I love that song

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Cool! I've tried making rose beads, but the petals just mold on me.

[contrariwise.livejournal.com]

Ooo, oo! I collect religious stuff too--the tacky and the not so tacky. I also have one of those rose petal rosaries. It smells incredible, and it was hand made by nuns. Woo.

[neeteeus.livejournal.com]

Hee hee.

In our family (well, the French Canadian side anyway) we collect all the roses after someone's funeral and make them into a rosary that's passed on to the eldest daughter of the person, or the next closest female relative.

I think it's a great tradition.

hey

[sanjubaba.livejournal.com]

Some people collect coins, others stamps, some others collect perfume bottles. You collect religious stuff. Its quite interesting actually to meet a person who thinks out of the box. Not that I've ever met you, but you know what I mean.

Anyways, I've been reading your journal for about a month now and I decided that it was high time that I let you know how much I loved your work. Your fiction is, mildly put, quite brilliant and I just had to post this comment to let you know how I think.

Hmm..that being all, keep up the great work. I've added you to my friends list by the way. Just thought I'd let you know.

Sanjana

[1anonymous1.livejournal.com]

Can I buy that off you by chance?

[kmai.livejournal.com]

omg, i have a rose rosary (not from spain,look at me!) and i have no clue what i have done with it. I totally forgot about it (well, it has lost its scent a while ago). fuck. I should ask my mom if it is at home.

[kokopoko.livejournal.com]

I have one as well. They smell divine. But mine broke :(