Odd news worldwide are plentiful, but I feel like maintaining a theme for today's post - Religious Sightings!
Nun's Buns, and Blessings of the Holy Toast
A bun bearing the supposed likeness of the late revered Catholic nun Mother Teresa was stolen from a coffeehouse in Nashville, Tennessee on Christmas Day 2005. The 'Nun Bun' was discovered in 1996 by a customer and had since been preserved in shellac and put on display to attract tourists. The coffeehouse produced prayer cards, mugs, and t-shirts bearing a picture of the bun until Mother Teresa herself wrote a letter to them before her death in 1997, asking that the sales be stopped.
A picture of the Nun Bun, by Associated Press.
A picture of the Nun Bun, by Associated Press.If Mother Teresa gets to appear on a bun, there should no reason why the upper hierarchy would be ignored now, would there?
He took a loaf of bread ... "This is my Body" - Luke22:19 taken a little too literally? Picture by Associated Press.
In 2004, Diana Duyser, 52, of Hollywood, Florida, puts up a 10-year-old partially-eaten piece of cheese toast up for auction on eBay. This would not have garnered much attention on normal circumstances, but Ms. Duyser had set the starting bid at US$3,000. And, oh yeah, it's got Mary, mother of God's face toasted onto it.
Some casino finally bought it for US$28,000 (read here)
Holy Chapati, Batman!
But wait, whoever said that Christianity was a Western religion? Back in November 2002, hundreds of Christian Pilgrims traveled to Bangalore, India, to take a peek at a piece of Chapati with the image of Christ burnt into it.
Holy ChapatiAs of 16th November 2002, over 20,000 Christians have visited the Renewal Retreat Center to pay homage in front of this holy chapati. And no, Batman has nothing to do with this incident, but I'm going to watch the Dark Knight in a couple of hours. (read more about the chapati here)
Everyone who have laid eyes on these miracle pastries have one thing in common - they feel blessed and imbued with luck. I know a person or two who have been down enough to pay a visit to one of these blessed bakings, but before you spend thousands on a plane ticket, a much cheaper option would be to just make your own holy toasties! For less than 20 Ringgit, you get to be the proud owner of one of these:
Clearly defined, no room for debate ("Oh, wait, if you turn it that way, it looks like Elvis eating a doughnut!"). Just the butter, the jam, and the holy toast.
PS: Kinda wrote this on the fly, might re-edit it at a later date!
2 rambling visitors:
1:07 AM, August 12, 2008
I stared at the Nun Bun from so many different angles! I could not see Mother Teresa! Hahahaha! I've finally seen it/her.
And how in the blooming world does that look like Mother Mary??? Unless I'm seeing it wrongly, it honestly looks like Marilyn Monroe to me.
1:38 AM, August 12, 2008
Marilyn Monroe! That's the name that eluded me when I first saw that pic! Hahaha I agree with you there, but I guess the auction wouldn't have reached as high as it did (for a piece of decade old, half-eaten cheese toast!) if it was labeled "JFK's mistress on my toast" ;) But then again, you never know.
Only in ... ? ;)
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