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1. I’ve always been wary of saints. For example, I learned through my medieval research on “miraculous” cures imparted by saints, that Saint Hildegard prescribed this for any “libidinous man” who may have caught leprosy through his “sexual incontinence”: a bit of agrimony, and a “modicum stercoris gallinarum” (swan’s shit), and as much menstrual blood as you can find, mix well, and put him in a bath of this mixture.

   She seemed to think that just because no one ever came back for a second treatment, that one application cured them. “Well, they never came back,” I imagine her saying to herself, “so I guess they’re cured!” Hildegard might’ve been saying to these lepers, “Oh you poor thing, let me cure you. I’ve got just the thing!” But I think she really meant, “Come here you dirty little leper. I’ll show you what you get for your filthy sinful ways…”

2. And battering up Indias image and making everyone think india is a poor country, when it was the riches of india that led to the discovery of america and the emergence of europe as a sea power…. Down with theresa…

3. Apparently they made nunchaku out of her bones.

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4. […] Tirinha original publicada em 12 de julho de 2006 Tirinha com excelente potencial para gerar polêmica e a fúria de religiosos… Então, antes de começar, por favor tentem ler o excelente texto do Christopher Hitchens sobre esta “santa”. […]