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New Pope Elected

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New Pope Elected

At 6.19 pm (7.19pm) white smoke issued from the most watched chimney in the world verified by the chiming bells of St Peters.

Just over 24 hours when the college of cardinals conclave convened; 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide have a new spiritual leader.

At  6.48 pm (7.48) Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI appears on the balcony.

 at 7.15 (8.15) pm Jean-Louis Tauran announces the fateful words “Habemus Papam”, or “We have a Pope”

7.20 (8.20)pm Cardinal  Bergoglio  the 76-year-old Archbishop(he became Cardinal in 2001) of Buenos Aires is named as the new Pope

His name will be Pope Francis I

He is from Argentina of Italian parentage. A Cardinal said  The church will be blessed. He is known to be a conservative, spiritual, humble and will look to be a reformer

Not since 741 has a Pope has been chosen outside of Europe

He is 76 and lost a lung as a child

A river of humanity streams around St Peters wanting to be near the new Pope

 At 7.35 (8.35)pm  The curtains to the balcony part  & open, Pope Francis I, clad in white, appears on the balcony of St Peter’s before the mass of humanity below. He speaks, makes a small joke, and asks the crowd to pray for him  He then blesses the screaming crowd and worldwide Christians.

 

Good luck and God bless the new pope, Pope Francis I.

 

A short history of bread

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A short history of bread

Egyptians paid pyramid workers in bread
150 BC: Baking flourishes in Rome and first mechanical dough-mixer is invented, powered by horses
500 AD: Wheat is already important in Britain, now Saxons and Danes introduce rye
1202: King John introduces first laws in Britain governing price of bread and permitted profit
1666: Great Fire of London started by a baker, destroying the milling and baking industry in London
1783: First recorded chain of bakery shops are opened by Christopher Potter of Westminster
1826: Wholemeal bread is recommended as healthier than white bread
1928: First bread slicing machine, invented by Otto Rohwedder, exhibited in US
1961: The Chorleywood Bread Process introduced in Britain
2007: Price of a standard loaf in UK reaches £1 for first time
Source: Federation of Bakers

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Superstitions:

Baking bread on a Good Friday was said to protect the household from fire.  The baked bread was also believed to cure many ailments.

While a family member was at sea, baking bread will protect him.

 

 

Rome – City of Seven Hills

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Rome – City of Seven Hills

Did you know?

Romulus is believed to have founded the city of Rome with his twin brother Remus in 753BC.

It is a legendary tale that Remus and Romulus were suckled by wolves.

Their father was Mars, the god of war. Their mother was Rhea Sylvia, a vestal virgin and daughter of a king Numitor.

The king’s brother Amulius took the throne from the king and forced the pregnant Rhea to become a vestal virgin.

When the twin Remus and Romulus were born, Amulius seized them and placed them in a basket and threw into the River Tiber, hoping that they would drown.

However, they were rescued by a she-wolf who fed the baby boys with her own milk and cared for them.

As they grew up, they were found by a shepherd, Faustulus, who took them home and looked after them until they’ve grown up.

When they discovered their royal birthright, they killed Amulius and put their grandfather back on his throne. They then decided to build a city of their own but they could not agree on where to build it. Remus favoured the Aventine Hill but Romulus wanted to build on the Palatine Hill. They could not agree so began to build their respective cities enclosed with dividing walls on separate hills.

One day, Remus visited Romulus in his city and made fun of his wall by jumping over it and saying how easily it could be breached. Romulus was beside himself with fury and killed Remus and stated that he would kill anyone who mocks his city or try to break through the wall of the city now known as Rome.

The legend says that Romulus became the first king of Rome in 753BC and populated his new city with runaway slaves and convicted criminals. He stole women from the Sabine Tribe to provide wives to the male population.

Sabine Women

The Sabine tribe was not happy and declared war on Rome; this war went on for many years but eventually, the tribe and Romus reached an agreement whereby the Sabine became part of Rome under King Romulus. The legend ends by telling how Romulus was carried up to the heavens by his father, Mars, and worshipped as the god Quirinus.

P & J Morton

Caesar Vs Brutus

Philippines

The Judgment of History
“Salahat ng sugat ang pinakamahapdi ay yung
saksak galing sa punyal ng isang matalik na kaibigan.” Translation:”Of all wounds inflicted, the most painful is the one coming from the dagger of a trusted friend.”… Old Filipino proverb

By
Jose Sison Luzadas
Delray Beach, Fl

Source from INTERNET

Helplessly fending off the conspirators with their knives coming from all directions, Gaius Julius Caesar stood to his ground, a true fashion of a brave veteran Roman soldier. Of the thirty-two stabbings Julius Caesar received he groaned but once and that was the first initial blow”, so says Suetonius, Roman historian and author of “Lives of the Twelve Caesars”

Relying chiefly from witnesses watching on that violent Friday, March 15, 44 BC Ides of March, Suetonius noted that the most climactic was when Caesar was surprised and shocked to see a face revealed turned out to be his mistress’ son whom he enjoyed conversing with him in Greek language about Hellenic culture.

The rumor long circulated was that Brutus was his son. If so, the moment of truth came when Brutus, the assailant-assassin finally took his turn to finish the job he planned, sworn and participated. To kill Caesar before he dissolves the Roman Republic and install himself emperor to would only preempt the death of the Republic that his brave ancestor, Lucius Jucinius Brutus founded after expelling the Etruscan king and established the Republic with two consuls instead of a king.

In the crowd who witnessed the killing, bystanders heard Caesar moaned, “Ka isu teknon”, it sounds more of Ilocano than Greek to mean, “You too my son?” Besides Suetonius, Plutarch who wrote “Parallel Lives of Great Greeks and Romans” confirmed that it was Greek but the phrase attributed to Caesar became famous and often quoted thanks to Shakespeare who created the words “Etu Brutus” to add drama and tragedy.

Yes, it was William Shakespeare whose play, “Julius Caesar” brainwashed us into associating the Latin phrase ‘ETU, BRUTUS’ on the brutal killing of Caesar.

Without Shakespeare’s “Etu Brutus” we will be deprived using the word BRUTE or BRUTAL or BRUTALITY to describe violent wicked or cruel and merciless killing!

But to attribute these words to Brutus, the Roman citizen and defender of the Roman Republic will be unfair as he vehemently asserted his genuine patriotism when he proudly declared, “it was not that I love Caesar less but I love Rome more!”

While Julius Caesar is the greatest Roman, it was Shakespeare who singled out Brutus ”as the Noblest Roman of them all!”

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