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Hi, Marjorie! I can't help you on all your questions, but I seem to
remember that Pope Peter II as the last pope and the signal for the
end of the world is from Nostradamus. yrs, tom ault
On Sat, 2 Apr 2005 22:09:37 -0700
Marjorie Greene <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Doctissimi,
> The event of today (2 April) sent me to a list of popes because I'm
>always interested in the names chosen by people who enter the
>religious life and do not keep their given names. I found this
>statement as I was perusing the list:" Leo VII, 963–65, or Benedict
>V, 964–66 (one of these was an antipope)." So I have a few papal
>questions. First, can anyone explain how it was that the Church did
>not know (?) or could not decide which of these men was legitimate?
>Second, does anyone know who was the first pope to choose a name
>different from his given name? Third, considering the variety of
>names of the popes of the first millennium, why do the same names
>begin to pop up in _about_ the year 1000 ff.? We've had 23 "John,"s
>and several other names are used quite frequently. There seems to be
>a certain lack of imagination from about 1000 on. Finally, does
>anyone but me remember the old notion that a pope's choosing the name
>"Peter" would signal/bring about the end of the world? It seems we
>were quite certain of the latter factoid when we were children.
> MG
>
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