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Pope Gloria
Apr. 18th, 2005 09:30 amI got an email from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
davemac, who doesn't post here any more, but has had a blog for a month or two. Dave covers New York from an Russian Orthodox perspective for an Irish language paper in Belfast, which is what you would expect from one of the Mulberry Street Irregulars, and is preoccupied, as we all are, with the election of Pope Gloria I. I should explain that an old prophecy found in a bog (or dreamed up by some Jesuit) gives the nickname Gloria Olivae to the next Bishop of Rome.
One interpretation is that the next fellow will be some sort of Benedictine. I suppose there must be at least one Benedictine Cardinal, though I can't think of any at the moment, and there is certainly no Olevitan. The Olevitans are members of a small Congregation of Abbeys in the Benedictine Confederation known for the great billowing white habits they almost never wear (Thar she blows, 'Tis Moby Priest!) and other eccentricities such as a Jungian Pentecostal Abbey in the Southwest and a fellow I happen to know who leads retreats with His Holiness. Not that Holiness -- I mean the DL of T.
In looking for the home page of the mother house, or the mother page of the house home, I found this delightful bit of English as a second language. Or maybe, knowing those Italians, a third or fourth.
If you have followed the link to Dave's blog, you already know that he has found a Cardinal Antonelli of Florence with an olive tree in his coat of arms and a motto from Dante (civic pride), no not that quote, the one Tom Eliot used in that poem of his, don't ask me which one.
For the most part the prophecy in question is content to predict obscure details of coats of arms Popes used earlier in their careers. Further details must be provided from other sources, such as the one I was about to link to, but which has vanished from the site in the last couple of days. Too bad, as it gave the history of the world durung the next Papacy in some detail. One can only hope that it will soon be back, no doubt in revised form. (It is back the next day, here with a frank admission of error, which I find enormously appealing.) Meanwhile, here's a more general outline by the same fellow.
davemac, who doesn't post here any more, but has had a blog for a month or two. Dave covers New York from an Russian Orthodox perspective for an Irish language paper in Belfast, which is what you would expect from one of the Mulberry Street Irregulars, and is preoccupied, as we all are, with the election of Pope Gloria I. I should explain that an old prophecy found in a bog (or dreamed up by some Jesuit) gives the nickname Gloria Olivae to the next Bishop of Rome.One interpretation is that the next fellow will be some sort of Benedictine. I suppose there must be at least one Benedictine Cardinal, though I can't think of any at the moment, and there is certainly no Olevitan. The Olevitans are members of a small Congregation of Abbeys in the Benedictine Confederation known for the great billowing white habits they almost never wear (Thar she blows, 'Tis Moby Priest!) and other eccentricities such as a Jungian Pentecostal Abbey in the Southwest and a fellow I happen to know who leads retreats with His Holiness. Not that Holiness -- I mean the DL of T.
In looking for the home page of the mother house, or the mother page of the house home, I found this delightful bit of English as a second language. Or maybe, knowing those Italians, a third or fourth.
If you have followed the link to Dave's blog, you already know that he has found a Cardinal Antonelli of Florence with an olive tree in his coat of arms and a motto from Dante (civic pride), no not that quote, the one Tom Eliot used in that poem of his, don't ask me which one.
For the most part the prophecy in question is content to predict obscure details of coats of arms Popes used earlier in their careers. Further details must be provided from other sources, such as the one I was about to link to, but which has vanished from the site in the last couple of days. Too bad, as it gave the history of the world durung the next Papacy in some detail. One can only hope that it will soon be back, no doubt in revised form. (It is back the next day, here with a frank admission of error, which I find enormously appealing.) Meanwhile, here's a more general outline by the same fellow.