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		lagrange77 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pope Francis has died I can imagine that for people of faith there is a lot to be read into the time of death.

mjh2539 6 days ago | [–]

For the superstitious perhaps, but not for those that have the virtue of religion!

https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14339a.htm

antognini 6 days ago | | [–]

The last three popes have all died during the Octave of Easter or Christmas.

dredmorbius 5 days ago | | [–]

One of the last three popes is not yet dead ;-)

dredmorbius 2 hours ago | | | [–]

I stand corrected. Benedict XVI died in December 2022. I'd somehow missed that.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI>

dredmorbius 6 days ago | [–]

Several ways.

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