Nativity & Religion

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Vaska Tumir wrote:

> And then there's V and the whole bizarre joke/satire of St Veronica the
 sewer rat as well as the Malta episodes, the Bad Priest V-avatar,
 Dnubietna, etc.  Much of that has always seemed to me the product of
 a certain quintessentially ("anti-Catholic") Catholic sensibility. 



Which also reminds one of the Hospital of St. Veronica of the True Image
for Colonic and Respiratory Diseases in GR (p. 46). Another insider
Catholic joke if there ever was one I've always felt. In some ways I think
the most authentic Catholic Saints are the purely ledgendary 
ones. Veronica has several Christian associations. With the woman Christ
healed of the hemorraging. With the woman who wiped Chirst's brow with her
kerchief. 

		P.