Today is the feast of St. Januarius, he of the vial of miraculously re-liquifying blood in the Naples cathedral. There’s plenty interesting to discuss about that triannual event, which sometimes takes minutes or hours, and sometimes doesn’t happen at all, and which appears to be treated by the local Neapolitans as something between an object of sincere pious devotion and Catholic Magic 8ball…
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