St. Rose haiku
St. Rose of Lima
had a recipe for beauty –
add some pepper
or
St. Rose of Lima’s
recipe for vanity –
add some pepper
(According to one story, St. Rose [actually, Isabel. Rose was her nickname] was so beautiful [hence the nickname] that she used to rub her face with pepper in order to disfigure her skin with botches).
(I wonder how the Church's sainthood investigators would treat such an action today?)
had a recipe for beauty –
add some pepper
or
St. Rose of Lima’s
recipe for vanity –
add some pepper
(According to one story, St. Rose [actually, Isabel. Rose was her nickname] was so beautiful [hence the nickname] that she used to rub her face with pepper in order to disfigure her skin with botches).
(I wonder how the Church's sainthood investigators would treat such an action today?)
posted by A Secular Franciscan | 10:15 AM
2 Comments:
with anti-psychotics, perhaps? or maybe even lithium?
;)
St. Rose did some gruesome stuff to herself in penance. Catherine of Siena kind of stuff. Kateri Tekakwitha (who also modeled herself after St. Catherine) also did some dangerous (to her health) penances. These days I don't think that kind of stuff as entirely suitable or even normal or holy.
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