St Winefride and decapitation

[Godric2]

This blog mentions the legend of St Winefride. I discovered this through another blog about the same place.

For me I find it difficult to believe someone could have their head put back on after it had been cut off.

I’d like to believe such things, and I just love the legend, and the holiness of shrines.

Any thoughts on this?

 

[GEddie]

This blog mentions the legend of St Winefride. I discovered this through another blog about the same place.

For me I find it difficult to believe someone could have their head put back on after it had been cut off.

Any thoughts on this?

I find this no more difficult than that a human body, having died from any cause at all, could be revitalized.

Which is more “difficult” – since both are humanly impossible – to repair the severed neck tissues, or to squeeze life back into trillions of dead human cells? A being that can do the 2nd should not, IMNAAHO, have any difficulty doing the 1st.

Think of it another way: Human science cannot remount somebody’s head, but it can reattach the limbs. If the body were not dead, the difference would only be one of complexity (more nerves, voicebox, etc.) The show-stopper is that the beheaded body of course dies at once. But The ONE Who can reinstate life will have no problem at all with sheer anatomical complexity.

After all, we count on HIM for an even greater reconstruction: fitting us with heavenly Spiritual Bodies, for life everlasting, with our minds and psyches fully restored. That will be far more thorough and complex than the natural body’s reinstatement from any condition.

ICXC NIKA!

 

[Godric2]

Thanks GEddie for that thought. I understand the point you make.

I guess connected with this is why should God through a human agent do this for one person and not another.

 

[GEddie]

Thanks GEddie for that thought. I understand the point you make.

I guess connected with this is why should God through a human agent do this for one person and not another.

That, indeed, is the true mystery. And we will not understand it, short of our Resurrectional minds.

But why ever does GOD allow one person to be saved from death, and another not? Scripture and human life alike are full of folks who die hideous or untimely deaths while others are spared.

No doubt this was the only case where GOD willed that the “beheadee” should go on living human life, as opposed to going on to Eternity. Why, we will never know, until we meet these people on the other side of Life:shrug:

ICXC NIKA