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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Something borrowed something blue?

As many know, and many more do not, Catherine of Siena, in her mystic marriage to Christ, was given his circumcised foreskin as a wedding band.

For anyone that has read Leo Steinberg's Sexuality of Christ (where he must have mentioned this, but I don't have my copy here) this fits right in with his argument that eroticized images, particularly of the infant Jesus, bring attention to his genitals as a way of showing that he is flesh like any man.

Like the Eucharist, Christ's body is portrayed as a gift that communicates divine presence to the beholder.


But my question is, how small were her fingers?

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