On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Brian Donaghey wrote:
> Little-known facts about well-known people: W.A. Mozart, born 27 January
> 1756, was in fact baptized Johannes Chrysostomos Wolfgangus Theophilus
> Mozart. So far as is known he never used the names Johannes Chrysostomos,
> and preferred the Latin "Amadeus" to the Greek "Theophilus." Who among us
> would have paid to see a play or film titled "Theophilus"?
> John Parsons
>> Well, John, we might have done if we thought it was going to be about the
>> Theophilus who was a kind of medieval proto-Dr Faustus--and the special
>> effects as he worked miracles and was then dragged off to hell were
>> spectacular enough!
>> Cheers,
>> Brian Donaghey
But wasn't he saved by the intervention of the BVM? At least isn't that
the version carved on one of the Notre-Dame portals in Paris?
John P.
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