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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9874698, member: 2844"]I don't know what the medal is for. All I can tell you is that it represents Joseph of Cupertino, a Franciscan friar who was mentally challenged, possibly through childhood neglect. He is said to have been a mystic and he performed miracles.</p><p>He claimed to be able to fly, but it is believed that his flights/levitations were more like very good jumps.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> Eyewitness accounts all date from after his death.</p><p>Since levitation was considered a heresy, his claims didn't go down well with the Inquisition, and in the end he was confined to his monastery cell.</p><p>Years after his death he was canonised, which means he is a Catholic saint.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a theory that both Joseph and his witnesses had eaten ergot-ridden rye bread, not unusual at the time. Maybe the hallucinations from ergotism made him throw of his clothes.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9874698, member: 2844"]I don't know what the medal is for. All I can tell you is that it represents Joseph of Cupertino, a Franciscan friar who was mentally challenged, possibly through childhood neglect. He is said to have been a mystic and he performed miracles. He claimed to be able to fly, but it is believed that his flights/levitations were more like very good jumps.;) Eyewitness accounts all date from after his death. Since levitation was considered a heresy, his claims didn't go down well with the Inquisition, and in the end he was confined to his monastery cell. Years after his death he was canonised, which means he is a Catholic saint. There is a theory that both Joseph and his witnesses had eaten ergot-ridden rye bread, not unusual at the time. Maybe the hallucinations from ergotism made him throw of his clothes.:playful:[/QUOTE]
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