Posted on 08/14/2023 1:32:06 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Many Americans love cappuccino, but few people know where the name comes from. Cappuccinos are named for a holy Capuchin priest who was chaplain to an army fighting Ottoman Turks to defend Christian Europe.
Bl. Mark (or Marco) of Aviano is a saint celebrated by Catholics on August 13, and the name cappuccino comes from the name of the religious order Mark joined, the Capuchins. To understand the story of cappuccino, it helps to know a little about Bl. Mark himself.
As a teenager, Mark set off to preach Christianity and possibly become a martyr in Crete (where Muslim Turks were invading), but was convinced to return home after stopping at a monastery. It wasn’t the last time Ottoman Turks would figure in his life, however. The monastery had impressed young Mark, and he became a Capuchin friar and then a priest in 1655 in Italy. After some time living a cloistered life he became a missionary preacher and then superior of two religious houses. While preaching at a Paduan monastery, his prayers resulted in the miraculous healing of a bed-ridden religious sister, and Mark soon became famous as a miracle-worker. That fame in turn led him to become an advisor to the Austrian emperor and then papal legate and apostolic nuncio for Pope Bl. Innocent XI.
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Pure monkey business!
“By visual analogy, the Capuchin monkey and the cappuccino style of coffee are both named after the shade of brown used in the Capuchin Monk habit.”
Monks are responsible for lots of food/beverages we enjoy. Beer and blue cheese cone to mind.
Don’t forget Chartreuse! (Carthusians)
Capuchins were named after capuchin monks because the dark fur that forms a cap on their heads and extends down in ‘side-burns’ resembles the cowl or headdress of the priests.
Cappuccino, pretzels, beer, brandy, all invented by Christian Monks.
Those monks sure know how to live!
“pretzels, beer”
Too bad they didn’t go a bit further and invent college football.
Monks may have brewed beer but the origins of beer go back thousands of years BM (Before Monks)
Well yes, beer was likely “invented” during the stone age when people left grains and stuff in the corner too long.
Monk kinda perfected it and made it a “thing” since around the 5th century. Some of the monastic breweries in Germany are over 1,000 years old.
Actually, Capuchins are friars, not monks. They are one of the three branches of the first order of St. Francis (the Franciscans).
It was the monks who noticed that one got ill less by drinking beer than local water.
Cappuchi, espresso, macchiato, latte, ... when it comes to covfefe, you name it, the eye-ties invented it.
Si Sì!
There was a “Shoe” cartoon some time ago where Cosmo is ordering a latte and his nephew asks what latte means. Cosmo says it’s Italian for six dollars.
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