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incomingalbatross · 1 year

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I guess he did have a knowledge given he spent 30 years in Ireland and his wife fully converted to Catholicism a few years after Dracula. But not intimate knowledge.

Those do definitely seem like indicators he would have been exposed to knowledge of the Eucharist. (I didn't know that about his wife!) But just going by the text of Dracula, either Bram Stoker did not have any real understanding of the Catholic doctrine of the True Presence, or he was willfully ignoring it. I tend to assume the first—it's something that it's very easy to pick up a watered-down version of, if (as you say) you have no intimate knowledge of the subject.

#but in case you're curious #YOU DO NOT BREAK THE BODY OF CHRIST INTO BITS AND SCATTER IT ON THE GROUND JUST TO MAKE A BLESSED BARRIER LINE #catholics have SO MANY holy substances MADE to fill both physical and spiritual needs! holy water! blessed salt! blessed everything!#it's the Church's whole THING!#you don't need to commit DESECRATION of CHRIST'S LITERAL BODY AND BLOOD #van helsing shouldn't even have been allowed that kind of ACCESS without being a priest by any normal rules #(this is not aimed at you anon! this is me yelling at my Least Favorite Thing In Dracula again)#dracula #dracula daily spoilers #catholic #asks #anon asks

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