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The Apocryphal Gospels reveal that shortly after his birth, Jesus’ mother gave it to an old Hebrew woman who had the prescience to preserve it in a jar of nard. Fast-forward one millennium, to a ...
An Irreverent Curiosity Calcata featured in Nov./Dec. issue of National Geographic Traveler, page 97. Sorry the article is not online.
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Even though it's a book about the supposed foreskin of the circumcised Christ Child, expect irreverence but not risque from David Farley's "Irreverent Curiosity." An early review in a Midwestern newspaper called it flippant, raunchy and disappointing....
An Irreverent Curiosity San Diego is getting an irreverent curiosity on November 24th.
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Acclaimed travel writer, David Farley, will be at Warwick's on Tuesday, November 24 at 7:30pm to discuss and sign his new book, An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddest Town.
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Some believe that listening to heavy metal and soaking in its sometimes faux macabre culture can lead to the devil. It led me instead to a fascination with holy relics. I was perhaps the only teenager in my suburban Los Angeles town who yearned to see bone
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First and foremost, David Farley is a (self-proclaimed) awesome dancer. Secondly, Farley is the author of An Irreverent Curiosity and has travel essays in
An Irreverent Curiosity A very nice (and long) write up of An Irreverent Curiosity.
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The book generally trades back and forth being about the historical accounts of the foreskin and Farley's day to day life trying to research it and get answers while living in Calcata, traveling to Rome and Turin, and finding himself stymied at nearly every turn. ...
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When writer David Farley learned that a controversial Roman Catholic relic (the circumcised foreskin of the infant Jesus) had suddenly vanished, he suspected a peculiar tale.
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Pondering the mysteries of the Holy Foreskin in Calcata, Italy (David Farley) David Farley is the type of travel writer who likes to really get to know a place before he writes about it. Case in point: He moved to...
An Irreverent Curiosity video of Calcata resident Paul Steffen talking about his amazing career as a choreographer.
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Post-Vatican II Catholics may not be well-acquainted with the cult of relics -- or as some irreverently call them, "praying tackle." They might be the bones of a saint (a relic of the...
An Irreverent Curiosity Any Bostonians in the house?
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Sunday, July 26, 7pm David Farley – An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church’s Strangest Relic in Italy’s Oddest Town An Irreverent Curiosity chronicles what happens when a renowned travel writer moves to an Italian hill town to uncover the fate of Jesus’ foreskin. David Farley – who t...
An Irreverent Curiosity I'm guest blogging all week on Penguin's website.
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It was the beginning of summer and nearly 100 degrees out when I found myself taking the the three-mile trek to Faleria, the closest thing the area has to civilization from Calcata. Calcata, a village ...
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author interview with David Farley, about his new book, An Irreverent Curiosity and the search for the Holy Foreskin in Calcata, Italy
