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...Scriptures underwent many changes at the hands of the early scribes, so much so that in the 4th century, Pope Damasus commissioned the Bible scholar Jerome to do a definitive version. In his version, the Vulgate, Jerome translated Keren, the Hebrew word for "ray, horn" as "cornuta," Latin for "horns." Thus, "when Moses came down from the mount Sinai, he held the two tables of the testimony: and he knew not that his face was horned from the conversation of the Lord" (Exodus 34:29}. While scholars have since determined that Moses was not literally horned but rather surrounded...
...born in 347 A.D. at Stridon near he present border of Italy and Yugoslavia. He was a Roman citizen At Rome he studied the Latin classics with a thoroughness few Christians of his day could match. His Scholarship later got him a job as a secretary to Pope Damasus, who encouraged him to begin his translation of the Bible. At the same time his just but tactless condemnations of Roman social life as a "sinful Babylon" almost got him run out of town. After Damasus died, he prudently went off to Palestine to be near the site of his story...
...Court of St. Damasus, where the Pope sat resplendent on an improvised dais, spangled maidens from Goa, bandannaed islanders from Timor, and tribesmen from Dom Pedro's own Angola watched devoutly. The old King had put on a swallow-tailed coat and extra wide trousers. His moustachios gleamed stark and white as he mounted the steps to the throne followed by his Queen, Isabella. His eyes were downcast and glued to his outturned feet for fear he might trip on his trousers. When at last he stood at the top, the crowd applauded. Pedro started to prostrate himself...
Impious Fascist aviators zoomed low over the Vatican last week, performed the air maneuver known as "Jazzing the Crowd." Vexed indeed was His Holiness Pope Pius XI to be thus interrupted while addressing Italian working girls in famed St. Damasus courtyard...
...afternoon last autumn, His Holiness was preparing to enjoy a carriage ride around the spacious Vatican gardens. An open barouche and a pair of glossy spanking Irish steeds waited at the portico of St. Damasus Courtyard. Suddenly the mettlesome beasts became frightened. They shied, snorted, whinnied, plunged. Finally they "ran away" in a mad dash around the high-walled garden...
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