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A bird in the hand

Is the Nursing Madonna actually a dirty joke? Jesu, rex masturbatorum?

Juan Sánchez de Castro, Virgen de la Leche (MNAC)

Sylvia Townsend Warner, The scapegoat, and the Diodorus phallic thimble quatrain

AKA shit AMA says.

Don’t plagiarise from the poor

Introducing Secular thought, an ancient journal of the Canadian heathen.

Brown hands Mandelson Keys of Heaven

But perhaps Mandy should read Matthew before taking it as a compliment.

Homeless Jonah about to be devoured by a great 100€-plated fish

But will an ecclesiastical trawler turn it into cat food first?

Mural at the foot of the Carmelite church on Monte Carmelo, Barcelona.

Catalan Easter Jew-killing ceremony update

I wondered here whether pew-beating as a means of reliving medieval pogroms was a nineteenth century invented tradition. It was a rather naive question, and confirmation that the practice was already popular in Barcelona in 1848 is to be found in this Libro Verde entry for today, Holy Wednesday.

Go forth and multiply

Witness accounts from the records of the Spanish Inquisition in Córdoba.

PP’s Last Supper?

Nice one from Ignacio Escolar, who quotes Luke and asks who’s playing Judas in this photo.

Sounds to kill Jews by

“Then the monsignor left the altar and told us that we could start killing the Jews.”