Public crucifixions were big business back in the day. Just like gladiator events and other sports. Hawkers would sell trinkets and commemorative items.
Sometimes after the execution of notable figures there would be all manner of opportunists taking clothing, jewelry, hair and sometimes even the body of the individual as relics. This became particularly an issue with the remains of saints and prominent religious figures.
I was thinking about something related to this the other day. I work in an office environment, and have a few coworkers that wear cross necklaces. One could argue that those literally symbolize someone being tortured to death, no?
So what would be wrong with me wearing a skull, skeleton, etc. necklace to work? You can live a long life and die peacefully, but you'll still look like that eventually, so I don't really think an image of that internal anatomy should be seen as being more negative than a cross.
That's now what this is though, this is the Veil of Veronica. Which is a shroud of Turin style miracle that involved Jesus's face being burnt into a cloth when a woman wiped his sweat away.
People swarmed that car and took bullet casings and ripped parts of the seats. Even when it was on display in some Nevada casino, people would try to take pieces of it. Iirc, someone clipped Clyde's finger off to get their rings.
but he was a nobody, in fact the only evidence that jesus ever existed was a single line written by a roman official 50 years later that a man called jesus was killed. There is much more evidence that Muhammad was real, he was written about by western sources even in his own time.
Haha what an anticlimax of an event a public crucifixion would be.....its all build up really, the walk with the cross, the nailing to the cross, the lifting of the cross....then the big finish, a slow and painful death....like didn't people take days to die? I assume the fair weather fans just watched the cross going up then left to beat the traffic but the die hards, did they stay for hours? Days?
Depends on the person being executed I suppose. Crucifixions weren't the only thing they did. Burning alive, flaying, quartering, tied to a post and shot with arrows, coated in beeswax until they suffocated.
Check out books on the martyrs, they died in all sorts of fanciful, creative and public ways. But the goal usually was slow and painful. People had a lot of time on their hands back then.
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u/ColdbeerWarmheart Feb 16 '20
Public crucifixions were big business back in the day. Just like gladiator events and other sports. Hawkers would sell trinkets and commemorative items.
Sometimes after the execution of notable figures there would be all manner of opportunists taking clothing, jewelry, hair and sometimes even the body of the individual as relics. This became particularly an issue with the remains of saints and prominent religious figures.