No for real that issue influenced everything from Czech nationalism to bead patterns on Inuit traditional dress.
Who gets communion and what kind is like the cause of half the conflicts in the 15th and 16th century.
malice over the chalice affects the palace
almost went with “unbalances the palace” but it seemed a little too clunky / rhyme wasn’t clean enough
Shoutout to my gangsta ass catholic school priest who chugged the whole chalice after like a hundred people drank from it every mass lmao
He’s supposed to do that. You can’t unbless the wine
i can fucking try
Is there a link expanding on this? Because I’m confused. You mean communion like at church?
Yeah I mean like who gets to drink the wine at church.
Thousands upon thousands died over this issue.Edit: You have Ultraquists and Hussites in Bohemia objecting to only priests drinking the wine leading to the Hussite wars and inspiring protestantism, you have the subsequent 30 years war, you have the denial of communion to peasantry because the catholic church didn’t wanna leading to jacqueries and peasant revolts, you have organisations who fled Europe because of these conflicts spreading the message of “You get to drink the wine too” leading to cultural enclaves in the Americas (Including in Greenland, where they inspired traditional inuit bead patterns).
Edit 2: And of course, “who gets to drink the wine” was one of the main precipitating issues leading to Vatican II and the subsequent conflicts within the church.
it gets even more fun and reasonable if you replace the word “wine” with “blood”
Edit:The cannibal thing is funny and all, but I think the snobbery is the fun part to me.
The catholic church realised that the bible says to drink his blood (wine) and eat his flesh (bread) so they promulgated an official doctrine that his blood is also in his flesh because God is indivisible so by eating the flesh (bread) you’re also getting some blood (Even though you’re not getting any wine), so it’s okay that only the priests get to drink actually. The doctrine of “concomitance”
That was a thing they did just to deny people proper communion. Literally, just to make sure that the filthy commoners didn’t touch the chalice and I guess spoil divinity.
That sounds so… Roman of them
And probably also because the priests didn’t want peasant cooties
or it just reflects the relative price of grain vs wine, and the church did not want to spend money on the poors.
Unlikely to be the main concern given that this wine was usually commercially available (In unblessed form) and that rich people didn’t get wine either. Doesn’t matter how fancy you were as a burgher, or even a non-royal aristocrat. No wine for you.
