R.I.P Big brotherโฆ
It was more than Musicโฆ
Every single ghana visit we met
You checked on every move
We stayed in the phone for hours talking life family and industry
Thank you for your gift and thank you for being such an optimistic human
I am glad I came by the house..
Rest in Power
Your kind is rare
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Thank you
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I feel the time has come to bring my journey with the Ghana national team to an end. ๐ฌ๐ญโค๏ธ
I leave happy, proud and with the peace of mind of knowing that I gave everything every time I wore this shirt.
Ghana has given me much more than football. It has allowed me to come back home, feel even closer to my roots and experience the enormous pride of representing my country and wearing this flag on my chest.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who has been part of this journey and for all the love you have always shown me.
Ghana will always be a part of me. I will continue supporting the Black Stars as one of you, wherever I am.
Medaase. Always Ghana. ๐ฌ๐ญโค๏ธ
Researchers at SDU Soft Robotics developed a worm-inspired limbless soft robot with inflatable muscles and a flexible kirigami skin.
It can crawl, turn, rotate, and avoid obstacles using controlled body movements and sensors.
The robot could be useful for search and rescue, inspection, and exploration.
I went to do some reading about the โskullโ in the video, and what I discovered was quite fascinating. The skull that the cardinal is holding is traditionally identified as the actual skull of Saint Agatha, whose relics were returned to Catania, Sicily, in the 12th century.
According to Catholic tradition, Saint Agatha was a young woman from a wealthy Roman family who lived in the 3rd century. She dedicated herself to God as a consecrated virgin and refused a marriage proposal because of her commitment to her faith. This reportedly angered the Roman authorities, and she was arrested, tortured, and eventually died because she refused to renounce her faith.
After her death, local Christians are said to have secretly recovered and preserved her body in a protected underground tomb. They wanted to give her a dignified burial and prevent further desecration of her remains.
Years later, her relics were taken from Catania by soldiers and transported to Constantinople, the city now known as Istanbul, Turkey. They remained there for centuries.
Then, in the 12th century, another extraordinary chapter began. According to the tradition surrounding her relics, two soldiers managed to retrieve Saint Agathaโs remains from Constantinople and secretly transported them back toward Catania. Some of the relics were reportedly lost along the way, but her skull survived and eventually made it back to the city associated with her life and martyrdom.
Upon its return, the Church commissioned highly skilled craftsmen to create an elaborate reliquary to contain and display the skull. The structure is made with precious materials, including silver and gold, and is designed in the form of a womanโs upper body. What we see in the video is therefore not simply a random metal statue holding a skull; it is a reliquary, a sacred container created to house and honor a saintโs relic.
What makes the story even more remarkable is the amount of time involved. Roughly nine centuries separate the period of Saint Agathaโs death from the return of her skull to Catania.
The ceremony shown in the video is connected to the Catholic veneration of Saint Agatha and the longstanding devotion surrounding her relics. For Catholics, this distinction is important: they do not believe they are worshipping the skull or the reliquary itself. Worship belongs to God alone. Rather, the relic is treated as a physical reminder of the person it belonged to and of the faith and sacrifice that person represents.
Catholics who venerate saints believe that the saints are alive with God in heaven. Therefore, when they ask Saint Agatha to โintercedeโ for them, they are not necessarily asking her to replace God or exercise divine power. Instead, they are asking her to pray to God on their behalf, much like asking another Christian to pray for you.
This practice is part of a broader Catholic tradition of honoring the saints and preserving their relics. The idea is that physical objects associated with a person can serve as reminders of that person's life, faith, and witness. Similar traditions exist around the relics of many other Christian saints.
So, when you look at the video without understanding the history behind it, it can understandably appear strange or even disturbing, especially seeing an actual human skull placed inside an ornate golden and silver figure.
But within Catholic theology, the symbolism is very different. The skull is not being presented as a god or as an object possessing supernatural powers. It is being treated as a relic of a woman whom Catholics believe lived faithfully, died as a martyr, and is now with God.
Whether one accepts the historical or theological claims surrounding Saint Agatha is, of course, a matter of faith and historical interpretation. But understanding the background makes the ceremony much easier to put into context.