Editing Holy Prepuce (section)

==Modern literary allusions==
According to an unconfirmed 19th-century source,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Foote |first1=G. W. |author-link1=George William Foote |last2=Wheeler |first2=J. M. |title=Crimes of Christianity |year=1887 |publisher=Progressive Publishing Company |location=London |page=94 |url=http://ftarchives.net/foote/crimes/contents.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827205246/http://ftarchives.net/foote/crimes/contents.htm |archive-date=27 August 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Palazzo |first=Robert P. |editor-last=Helfers |editor-first=James P. |title=Multicultural Europe and Cultural Exchange in the Middle Ages and Renaissance |year=2005 |publisher=Brepols |location=Turnhout |isbn=2503514707 |url=http://brepols.metapress.com/content/j5777647t22l2tw1 |chapter=The Veneration of the Sacred Foreskin(s) of Baby Jesus - A Documented Analysis |page=157 |quote=I [Palazzo] have not been able to locate a copy of ''De Praeputio'' to confirm or deny [Foote and Wheeler's] quotation. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20131121085704/http://brepols.metapress.com/content/j5777647t22l2tw1 |archive-date=2013-11-21 }}</ref> in the late 17th century the Vatican librarian [[Leo Allatius]] wrote an unpublished<ref>{{cite book |last=Fabricius |first=Johann Albert |title=Bibliotheca Graeca (Vol. 14) |year=1728 |location=Hamburg |url=https://archive.org/details/bibliothecagrae01fabrgoog |language=la |page=[https://archive.org/details/bibliothecagrae01fabrgoog/page/n43 17] |publisher=Sumptu Christiani Liegbezeit |quote=Adhuc ineditis praefixus Astericus [Unpublished works prefixed with an asterisk].}}</ref> treatise entitled ''De Praeputio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Diatriba'' (''A Discussion of the Foreskin of Our Lord Jesus Christ''), claiming that the Holy Prepuce ascended, like Jesus himself, and was transformed into the [[rings of Saturn]].

[[Voltaire]], in ''A Treatise of Toleration'' (1763), referred to [[veneration]] of the Holy Foreskin as being one of a number of superstitions that were "much more reasonable... than to detest and persecute your brother".<ref>[[Wikisource:Page:Toleration and other essays.djvu/105]] page 81 Chapter "Whether it is Useful to Maintain the People in Superstition"</ref>

[[Umberto Eco]], in his book ''[[Baudolino]]'', has the young Baudolino invent a story about seeing the holy foreskin and navel in Rome to the company of [[Frederick Barbarossa]].

In 2009, Farley's ''An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddest Town'' was published.<ref name="Farley 2010">{{cite book | last=Farley | first=David | title=An Irreverent Curiosity | publisher=Gotham Books | date=2010-07-01 | isbn=978-1-59240-549-7 | page=}}</ref>

[[James Joyce]]'s ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' has [[Stephen Dedalus]] pondering the Holy Prepuce while he urinates with [[Leopold Bloom]], in the section titled "Ithaca". 

In ''[[The Gospel According to Jesus Christ|The Gospel According To Jesus Christ]]'', [[José Saramago]] writes that anyone "wishing to venerate that foreskin today need only visit the parish church of Calcata near Viterbo in Italy, where it is preserved in a reliquary for the spiritual benefit of the faithful and the amusement of prying atheists."<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Gospel According to Jesus Christ.|last=Saramago|first=José.|publisher=The Harvill Press|year=1993|isbn=9780002713573}}</ref>