What, you ask, is the Christus Sanguinum? For starters, it is a story. Every human’s stock in trade, our ultimate currency, is storytelling. Civilization began when the first person took aside their best friend and said “hey, listen to this.” Stories build ideas which we can share from generation to generation, which allows each succeeding generation to know more than the previous one. This story is not so important. However, it does have a purpose, and that purpose is to attract and keep your attention, so that you come back again to read more. What would keep you coming back? Something curious and interesting, with broad appeal? Something like, perhaps, a long-lost treasure of immeasurable value? So, back to the question: what is the Christus Sanguinum?
It is the blood of Christ. Or, to be more specific, it is a gemstone; a ruby named the blood of Christ. Or, if you believe the legend, it is a ruby called the blood of Christ because it once actually was the blood of Christ, transformed into a ruby but continuing to possess the healing, transformative powers of Christ himself.
Nonsense, I expect you are saying. You have better things to do with your idle internet time. A blog about baby goats? You’d stay for that. But I don’t have any baby goats. Only a story about a ruby the size of a bird’s egg.
Just so you know, it’s a long and convoluted story. Along the way you will, no doubt, have to deal with many diversions and interruptions caused by other events, and other interests of mine, such as a novel titled LHOSA Sojourner I think you would very much enjoy reading. And to tell the ruby story properly, I may have to enlist the testimony of centurions, kings, pirates, professors, saints, ghosts, and baristas, as well as poets and other assorted hangers-on. And if I am lucky enough to find a baby goat, you can be sure I’ll work it in.
So, thank you for reading, and here goes…
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