@mhoye 10/10 description, this is spot-on

@mhoye that feels like it desperately wants to be perched atop a mech body.

@mhoye St. Valentine's skull, for comparison, is just sitting in a fancy box in a church in Rome.

@mhoye This is the stuff of road trip legend, also the framing of the picture here makes the wings look like golden spider's legs which just adds to it.

@mhoye Real Adepta Sororitas hours

@mhoye Earlier this year I visited a church where they had this guy, just chilling there, waiting to be painted like one of your French girls. They even had a second one!

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Regensburg_St_Emmeram_2012_Nr_-49.jpg

@mhoye You might enjoy Anneli Rufus's book "Magnificent Corpses", in which she goes to a number of shrines like this across Europe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnificent_Corpses.

@mhoye Warhammer 40k is so cool I wish Catholics were real

@mhoye patron saint of RPG character generation

@mhoye
V powerful Servitor vibes here

Metal as fuck too, if we're being honest

@mhoye It has 40K meets Doctor Who: Silence in the Library vibes to me.

@mhoye Also search 'the tongue and jaw of st Anthony'.

@mhoye That Image send me down a rabbithole...2 hours wikipedia about Marie Magdalen.. Thank you

@mhoye You might like this -

https://www.cultofweird.com/art/holy-face-mask/

which someone did at peak COVID and was the previous holder of the "most WH40K thing ever" title.

@mhoye Astronaut 1: Warhammer 40K is Catholic Aesthetics?

Astronaut 2 (with Boltgun): Always has been.

@mhoye Saint Benedictus thinks she's basic.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/meet-the-fantastically-bejeweled-skeletons-of-catholicisms-forgotten-martyrs-284882/

@mhoye Also a little reminiscent of the Borg queen, no? Call me weird, but I'd love to see a DNA analysis, facial reconstruction, and radio carbon dating of that skull.

@mhoye not being into wh40k myself, I would've thought this was fan art of a bunch of Doctor Who baddies merged into one

@mhoye

You HAVE to read 'Afterlives of the Saints' by Colin Dickey. It's absolutely wild.
For example: Monasteries in the Middle Ages had feuds going, stealing each other's mummified saint bits back and forth because they wanted to Catch Them All.

@mhoye "FACE TOWARDS ENEMY", only in Latin.

@mhoye Hey, who turned out the light ?

@mhoye @dolfsquare "Hey, who turned out the lights?"

@mhoye #ALT4you Golden plated statues of angels, facing away from the viewer, holding up a golden plated bust with hair and a glass bubble in place of the face, inside the bubble, a darkened skull is visible, held in place in a red fabric case. The bust is placed upon another golden plated structure with intricate details that, from the point of view of the picture, makes it look like a robotic body. All that seems to sand in a rock cave or cemented structure.

@mhoye that's awesome

@mhoye Please, could you add an image description to make your toot accessible for everyone ?

For instance :

Golden statue of two angels holding the bust of a woman with long hair.
The woman's face is hollow, and a real skull is displayed, resting on red silk. The skull is protected with a glass dome, that reflects the light above it.

Feel free to adapt is, as English is not my first language.

#ALT4you

@mhoye this is probably (extremely likely) one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen in my life.

@mhoye just give her the nuke and it'll be OK

@PhilGrimley pssst.

@mhoye that is one heck of a Necramech. #Warframe

@mhoye this makes me wish Greedy Peasant were on here
https://www.greedypeasant.com/

@mhoye @ramsey i knew of catacomb saints (Katakombenheilige) where european churches bought skeletons claimed to originate from rome and decorated them, to claim they have their own saints. Baroque death cult tends to be quite something.

I took the main picture on this wikipedia article
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacomb_saints

@mhoye all i can hear is daft punk in the background 😄

@mhoye btw: what license is that picture under?

@mhoye OMG the vibes of Blasphemous final boss in this picture are incredible

@mhoye How does that square with:

We pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever-Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.
— Pope Pius XII, *Munificentissimus Deus*, 1950

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assumption_of_Mary

@mhoye makes sense given 40k's Imperium seems to be a mix of the worst excesses of Victorian England with the aesthetics of the Catholic Church on crack

@mhoye where are her teeth?

@mhoye well, 40k was inspired by a lot of things, then turned up to at least 11

@mhoye So she really is in France...

@mhoye maybe christianity does respect sex workers after all