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In fact, he took it with him wherever he went and kept it by his bed. Teresa of Ávila is one of Spain’s most famous saints, and Francisco Franco, the dictator who came to power in Spain in 1939, seized this relic during the Spanish Civil War. That’s a long time for an image or impression to rattle around in someone’s brain.īUT! Consider this (as though this deep-dive couldn’t get deeper or more strange): St.
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While the six Infinity Stones first appear in stories with Thanos in 1976, they don’t come together in a glove until the “Infinity Gauntlet” series that started in 1990 (specifically, Silver Surfer #44 - see, I told you I did some digging). Starlin introduced Thanos as a character in 1973. And something about her story - some odd, gruesome, strange detail, like the fact that her hand was removed from her body and put on display - sticks in his imagination and surfaces years later.
Maybe he goes to the parish or school named after her. Okay, so the Inifinity Gauntlet illustrator was Catholic, and perhaps - maybe - somewhere in his background, he learns about St. Teresa of Ávila on the same side of Detroit as the area Starlin grew up in ( Berkley). In fact, there was a parish named after St. So, the probability of an illustrator naturally coming across an image of this relic seems small.īut they start to increase when you factor in that the Marvel comic illustrator who created Thanos and the Infinity Stones, Jim Starlin, was raised Catholic and educated at a Catholic elementary school. It’s difficult to find a good photo of the relic online now - the gauntlet was drawn into a comic before the internet existed. That theory, though, is really hard to imagine. It’s possible that somewhere along the way, a Marvel comic illustrator needed an idea for a funky glove and found this image. The Infinity Gauntlet’s yellow “mind stone” is the largest stone and occupies an oval in the middle of the back of the hand - the same shape as the open window in the relic case.Īgain, I ask: What in the hell is going on here? What does it mean? How could this be coincidence? It’s a near-perfect match! Both are metal gloves of a similar color covering the left hand with jewels across the back knuckles. There is no sixth stone in the middle of the back of the hand, but there is an oval-shaped decorated window there to display the saint’s hand.
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The front of the case has small windows to display the saint’s hand, but the back of the glove (look in the mirror) is decorated with precious stones on each knuckle. It resides in a convent in Ronda, Spain, and as you can see, it is metal of the same hue as the gauntlet, and also extends past the wrist. Teresa of Ávila is enclosed in a strikingly similar case. The severed and incorrupt left hand of St. The back of the glove holds six precious stones - one on each knuckle and a sixth in the middle of the back of the hand. Rub your eyes and look for yourself: the Infinity Gauntlet is a metal glove covering Thanos’ left hand and lower forearm. It’s a strange journey, but hop on for a brief ride through comic book history and odd Catholic tradition. Why in hell would Marvel base the most important artifact in its entire dramatic arc - literally the most important thing in the UNIVERSE if you’re a character in a Marvel story - on a weird object of veneration in a remote, cloistered monastery in Spain THAT HOLDS THE SEVERED HAND OF A 400-YEAR-OLD NUN? Thanos is as far removed from a saint as it’s possible for the human imagination to conceive. The Infinity Gauntlet is the linchpin to a worldwide superhero comic and film franchise.
Y’all aren’t going to believe this, but it’s the same glove. I recently ran across a comparison between the Infinity Gauntlet and - get this - a metal case in an obscure monastery in Spain that holds the incorrupt hand of a famous saint. And it all comes down to one villain, Thanos, who wields an object that makes him god-like: the Infinity Gauntlet. More than half of all Americans between 18–34 have seen at least one of these films.
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If you sat down to watch every Marvel movie back-to-back, from Ironman to Endgame, you’d be pasted to your sofa for two full days. It’s the highest-grossing film franchise ever. By the time it finishes its run, the Marvel superhero series will have earned more than $20 billion - yes, that’s a “b” at the start of that figure. It’s consumed more than a decade to produce 22 movies. Just pause for a moment and take in the monumental amount of time and resources that have been marshaled to bring the Marvel Comic Universe to life on the big screen.
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