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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 826307" data-attributes="member: 53455">The wrong cloth in the right church (2022)The small town of Souillac lies in the French département (bit like a county for you guys in the US) of Lot, in the old province of Quercy (and in the modern region of Occitania). According to unconfirmed local stories, the abbey of Souillac was founded by Saint Éloi († 660) before it was taken over by the Benedictines from Aurillac in the 900s. From that period, only the Western tower-porch remains. The abbey was listed as a Historic Landmark on the first list of 1840.The choir cross is draped with a piece of cloth probably meant to symbolize the sole clothing that Christ wore around His groin on the Cross. And of course, modern-day Church, still very much inspired by false ideas of splendor and the tearful Saint-Sulpicien imagery of the 19th century, makes the mistake of selecting a rich and shiny silk cloth that clearly shows off how much it cost, instead of the basic piece of linen or cotton that would have been much more appropriate...Remember, in Indiana Jones’s The Last Crusade, how the bad guy mistakes a gold cup ornate with many polished gems for the true Cup of the Last Supper, which is in fact a poor, ordinary clay bowl? This is what this piece of silk hanging there reminds me of. Well, all right, Hollywood being Hollywood, the poorish clay bowl in that movie had to be coated inside with something that looked suspiciously like gold (probably looked better on camera), where in truth it was most likely nothing of the sort...(And by the way, if you like Holy Grail stories, the best one I have ever read is Quest by Richard Ben Sapir, published in 1987. Ben Sapir († 1987) is also the author of The Body, which became an awfully bad movie with Banderas, while Quest was regrettably –and unexplainably– never adapted for the big screen.)Nikon Z7 II, Sigma 135mm, ƒ/1.8 Art lens, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head. Natural light.[ATTACH=full]412356[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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