St. Catherine of Siena reportedly wore the foreskin of Jesus as a ring on her finger.
Austrian nun Agnes Blannbekin (1244-1315) became obsessed by the holy foreskin, dwelling on the loss of blood and pain Christ must have suffered during his circumcision. Such thoughts led her to a revelation. While celebrating the Feast of the Circumcision (traditionally held on January 1), Agnes suddenly "felt the Lord's foreskin on her tongue, thin as the membrane of an egg, and swallowed it with great sweetness 'about a hundred times'. Christ then revealed to her that his foreskin had been resurrected with him on Easter." Because of this revelation, Blannbekin's writings were banned by the church.
Then there's this: the 17th century theologian Leo Allatius, in an essay, "De Praeputio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Diatriba," he speculated "that the holy foreskin may have ascended into heaven at the same time as Jesus himself, and might have become the rings of Saturn."
Excerpted from "The Circumcision of Jesus Christ," Journal of Urology, 2007
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