Precious Cargo (not AirForce One)

[f-35simpilot]

Nice seeing this airline at YVR in the first place!



Cargo bay is open!



My god... is that a body, indeed it is... in fact it is the body of some catholic saint, somebody said it was a mummy... someone said it was a plasticized body, not really sure who to believe, but it is the REAL body either way!


with the cargo door shut!

[SeanTK]

What the......

Ok, that's going into a random image thread.
That is by far the strangest image I have seen in a VERY long time, and can dig up some pretty weird stuff.

I don't have words to describe how weird that is.....

[ApplePie]

After a little bit of research this is what I found:


http://www.catholic-sf.org/news_select. ... 4&id=57481

[quote]An acrylic likeness of the incorrupt body of St. John Bosco containing a relic of the

[f-35simpilot]

glad you know Pie, I could not understand the old guy with a thick accent who was explaining!

[Flying Trucker]

Interesting indeed....

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

[chrism7262]

there is actually something just like this at a Catholic Church i went to in Philadelphia. It is actually the body of St. John Newman. It was discovered that his body never actually decomposed, and so they have it in a glass case like this one, and have put an acrylic mask over his face. I may have some of the details wrong but still pretty cool to see