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Having received three offline replies, from the eastern side of the Pond, as
well as one from this side, I see that an explanation is in order, as what I
wrote would only make sense to Americans, moreover, only Americans who were
up on what was happening in the World Series, which is a series of baseball
games, between the winners of the top spot (known as the pennant winners) of
both of the baseball leagues, in America.
This year, the World Series was betweeen the St. Louis Cardinals and the
Boston Red Sox. The World Series is won when one team has won four out of
seven games. Of course, when a team has won four games, the series is over,
even if all seven games have not been played.
At the time that I wrote, the Red Sox (the team from Boston, Massachutsetts)
had won three games in a row. This means that the team from Saint Louis,
Missouri (whose uniforms are embroidered with that red bird known as the
cardinal), the St. Louis Cardinals, had LOST three in a row, the team from
Boston having beat them.
I had three items wrong in my original posting, hence my comment,
> Makes me feel like a Cardinal, myself, having lost three in a row.
>
I then mentioned St. Botolph (also spelled "Botulph"), in a paraphase of a
line in the Confiteor. Everyone in Britain probably knows that St. Botolph
is the patron saint of Boston, in the U.K. Not that many Americans know
that, however. He is also patron saint of Boston, Massachusetts. (Feast day
is June 17th.)
(As it turned out, last night was the fourth game of the World Series, and
the Boston Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals, thereby winning the World
Series, and breaking an 86 year jinx, their last having won the pennant
which qualifies a team to participate in the World Series, back in 1918.)
In my original posting, I advanced three statements, and all three of them
turned out not to be on the mark. Hence I said that it made "me feel like a
Cardinal, having lost three in a row." :)
Bill East dryly (and hilariously) commented:
> Respondeo:
>
> Otherwise, I thought, it was a pretty good posting.
>
Of course, there was no "otherwise," as out of three things, I was off the
mark, on all three. Sort of like the classic line, "Other than that, Mrs.
Lincoln, how did you like the play?"
So far as St. Botolph being the patron saint of Boston(s):
Legenda for St. Botolph (Botulph), Abbot:
Botolph (Botulph), and his brother Adolf (Adulph), both of whom are
venerated as Saints, went as youths to Begic Gaul; and there became monks.
Adulph is said to have become a regionary bishop at Utrecht. Botolph in the
course of time returned to England, and founded, about the year 654, a
monastery at a place usually identified with Boston in Lincolnshire, for
Boston is a corruption of Botolph's Town. He was proclaimed far and wide as
a man of remarkable learning, full of the grace of the Holy Spirit, and went
to God about the year 680. And when the monastery was destroyed during the
Danish invasion of the ninth century, his relicks, and those of Saint Adulph
which had been enshrined with him, were saved, and later distributed among
various great Minsters in England.
Terrill
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Terrill Heaps wrote:
> Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea minima culpa.
>
> I was not disputing the numeration of popes.
>
> The simple truth is that I made a typo, when I typed my original
> posting, and omitted an upper-case "I," in the Roman numeral for 23rd.
>
> And, I stand corrected, the Cardinal Camerlengo did not say "Angelo
> Roncalli, are you alive . . .." He said instead, "Angelo, are you alive
> . . .." And I stand further corrected, as the hammer is silver, and not
> gold.
>
> Makes me feel like a Cardinal, myself, having lost three in a row.
>
> Ideo precor . . .et beatum Botolphus . . ..
>
> Terrill
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