“Mary Magdalen’s jaw bone had been sent to Rome after a previous excavation of her tomb and before the Saracen invasion of 710 AD, when all important relics in France were hidden. In Rome, Mary Magdalene’s jaw had been venerated for centuries [in St. John Lateran, the Pope’s Archbasilica of the Most Holy Savior at the Lateran and ‘Mother and Healer of all Churches in Rome and in the World’].” Because of “the 1279 discovery, Pope Boniface VIII returned the jaw bone to St. Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume and on April 6, 1295 it was reunited with the skull of Mary Magdalene.”
In May 1992 when I was 21 years old I had a dental surgery which required the removal of my lower jaw (the reconstruction of my skull) and wiring it back shut and having it wired shut for several months.
When the jaw was reunited with the skull, from which she could metaphorically speak, Dante was 30 years old. I came to know John Mayer when he was 32. Dante was 43 when he began writing the Divine Comedy in exile and Beatrice speaking to him beyond form. John is now 45.
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“Rat in a drain ditch, caught on a limb, you know better, but I know him
Like I told you, what I said, Steal your face right off your head.Now he’s gone, now he’s gone, Lord he’s gone, he’s gone
Like a steam locomotive, rollin’ down the track
He’s gone, gone, nothin’s gonna bring him back… He’s goneNine mile skid on a ten mile ride, hot as a pistol but cool inside
Cat on a tin roof, dogs in a pile
Nothin’ left to do but smile, smile, smile”“He’s Gone” lyrics by Robert C. Hunter and Jerome J. Garcia.