Kraichgauer wrote:
kitesandtrainsandcats wrote:
So, does that make the article news, or speculative gossip?
Quote:
Russian state media reported in 2020 that the ship was due to take a holy relic on board.
It's unclear whether the relic — a piece of the "true cross" — was on board when the Moskva sank.
From:
Russian warship sunken in Ukraine war may have been carrying a piece of the 'true cross,' a treasured Christian relic
https://www.businessinsider.com/sunk-ru ... ard-2022-4John Calvin speculated that there were so many pieces of the "true cross" that you could use the wood to build a perfect ship.
What Calvin said was "it would be enough wood to fill a whole ship". My Mom accidently reinvented the same joke when she quipped that if "they brought together all of the pieces of the True Cross it would probably be as big as the World Trade Center". The point being that the payload of a cargo ship (even the still relatively tiny sailing ships they had in Calvin's time- like Columbus's ships), would be a lot for Jesus to have carried down the street on his back. Ditto the Trade Center.
So maybe some of the pieces arent so "true".
But of course - THIS one on the Russian ship MUST have been real!
But apparently it didnt work for its likely intended purpose- as a good luck talisman -to protect the ship.
So despite Putin's alliance with the Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow- Putin's navy doesnt seem to have God on its side. Putting holy relics on their boats is apparently not enough to change that.