At 2:59 of this section of last night's QI XL episode they start talking about some theologian dude called Thomas Equinus who the Roman Catholic church wanted to bestow sainthood upon, but were finding the process a bit tricky as he was useless and hadn't performed any miracles. So they made one up!
OK so it's the thirteenth century and maybe it was late in the day and they'd been on the wine a bit and weren't thinking clearly, but this is tenuous nonsense even by the church's standards. God is apparently omnipotent no? That's what the Pope says. And if God knows everything, absolutely everything, then he knows you're making this shit up and won't recognise this bloke Saintness.
Even if it was legitimate...surely God is not about to class the turning of a pilchard into a herring in ones mouth as a legitimate miracle. Or maybe he would being the confusing wanker he is. I take that back, I've just noticed Hull are losing.
OK so it's the thirteenth century and maybe it was late in the day and they'd been on the wine a bit and weren't thinking clearly, but this is tenuous nonsense even by the church's standards. God is apparently omnipotent no? That's what the Pope says. And if God knows everything, absolutely everything, then he knows you're making this shit up and won't recognise this bloke Saintness.
Even if it was legitimate...surely God is not about to class the turning of a pilchard into a herring in ones mouth as a legitimate miracle. Or maybe he would being the confusing wanker he is. I take that back, I've just noticed Hull are losing.
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