Category: Did You Know?
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Did you know: Official Language
any correspondence in Catholic legal cases has to be translated into Latin?
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Did you know: Papal Signature
Pope Benedict XVI had a small signature?
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Did you know: Excommunicating Comets
Haley’s comet was once excommunicated? Jean-Paul II forgave the wayward comet for brazenly appearing during a Turkish invasion.
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Did you know: Mutual Excommunication
the Great Schism between Eastern Orthodox and Catholic faiths was a result of the Patriarchs and Pope simultaneously excommunicating each other?
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Did you know: Crossing Cultures
Odin was associated with Mercury when the Romans encountered the Norse? Which is why Wednesday (wOdinsday) is Miercoles, Mercoledi, Mercredi, etc.
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Did you know: problems with leapyears
the year Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon was 465 days long?
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Did you know: Spring New Year
the original new year in the Roman State was March 1st? Hence, Septem-ber would actually be the seventh month. Octo-, Novem-, Decem- it all makes sense!
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Did you know: Latin Night
Latin has six words for various portions of the night including gallicinium (the time of roosters’ crowing)?