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Monk who gave cappuccino its name beatified
The Daily Telegraph ^
| April 28, 2003
| Bruce Johnston
Posted on 04/27/2003 5:19:38 PM PDT by MadIvan
The Pope yesterday beatified a 17th-century friar credited with halting a Muslim invasion of Europe and in the process gave the world cappuccino coffee.
More than 300 years after his death, Marco d'Aviano cleared the last step before sainthood, as the Pope recognised the friar's miraculous work, including curing a nun who had been bedridden for 13 years.
When a vast Ottoman Turk army was marching on Vienna in 1683, d'Aviano was sent by the Pope to unite the outnumbered Christian troops. After a prayer meeting led by d'Aviano, they were spurred to victory.
As the Turks fled, legend has it, they left behind sacks of coffee which the Christians found too bitter, so they sweetened it with honey and milk.
The drink was called cappuccino after the Capuchin order of monks, to which d'Aviano belonged. Under a cloudy sky in St Peter's Square on Sunday, the Pope paid tribute to d'Aviano - known is Italy as "Friar Cappucino" - and five other Italians whom he also beatified.
The 82-year-old pontiff has formally beatified 1,310 people, more than all of his predecessors of the past four centuries combined.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: ancienthistory; balkans; cappuccino; coffee; godsgravesglyphs; italy; marcodaviano; muslims; ottomanempire; pope; turks
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Quite right. This fellow is certainly a hero.
Regards, Ivan
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posted on
04/27/2003 5:19:38 PM PDT
by
MadIvan
To: alnick; knews_hound; faithincowboys; hillary's_fat_a**; redbaiter; MizSterious; Krodg; ...
Bump!
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posted on
04/27/2003 5:19:49 PM PDT
by
MadIvan
To: MadIvan
The Pope yesterday beatified a 17th-century friar credited with halting a Muslim invasion of Europe and in the process gave the world cappuccino coffee. Hey, I'm not even Christian and I think this alone makes him a saint, as far as I'm concernned.
To: Celtjew Libertarian
Amen to that! Now if we can only find the nitwit who invented French Vanilla flavored cappuccino.
Or we can just call it "Freedom" Vanilla cappuccino.
To: MadIvan
The Pope yesterday beatified a 17th-century friar credited with halting a Muslim invasion of Europe and in the process gave the world cappuccino coffee. A patron saint of coffee? It's about time.
To: MadIvan
He was a friar, not a monk. The Franciscans are not monks. Neither are the Dominicans. The Benedictines are.
To: MadIvan
The Patron Saint of Coffee? Cool!
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posted on
04/27/2003 6:30:11 PM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: Arthur McGowan
As are Cistercians, who follow the rule of St Benedict.
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posted on
04/27/2003 6:46:03 PM PDT
by
katze
To: MadIvan
Ah cappuccino! It goes well with croissants.
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posted on
04/27/2003 6:54:14 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(Peace is the prerogative of the powerful. The path to peace is confrontation, not appeasement.)
To: MadIvan
Next up for beatification: Friar Espresso and Friar Mocha Latte. ;-)
To: MadIvan
Ya know, as much as I thoroughly love Fox News Channel.........I have it on most of the time..........I was sitting at my computer today, listening to it, and a news guy talked about how the Pope "beautified" several people today. Beautified. Just had to cringe and laugh.
To: MadIvan
BTW, when the Muslims take over France, do you suppose they'll outlaw croissants and force the French to eat cruciate pastries called croix?
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posted on
04/27/2003 6:59:33 PM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(Peace is the prerogative of the powerful. The path to peace is confrontation, not appeasement.)
To: MadIvan
sacks of coffee which the Christians found too bitter, so they sweetened it with honey and milk. Then they charged $3.50 a cup and the first Starbucks was born.
To: Celtjew Libertarian; MadIvan
Hey, I'm not even Christian and I think this alone makes him a saint, as far as I'm concernned. Yay! I agree. So what as the history? How did one monk help to stem the tide?
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posted on
04/27/2003 7:00:05 PM PDT
by
risk
(I'm making some good coffee to celebrate!)
To: MadIvan
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posted on
04/27/2003 7:03:11 PM PDT
by
risk
(I'm making some good coffee to celebrate!)
To: nickcarraway
ping
a saint for coffee. God Bless him.
To: risk
Thanks for the info.
Sometimes infidels have to be dealt with the hard way.
To: *balkans; Destro
Hey Destro,
Check out the link on post 15, looks like Fr. Marco d'Aviano was a liberator of Belgrade. Should could use him again in the Balkans.
To: MadIvan; risk
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posted on
04/27/2003 7:32:16 PM PDT
by
eleni121
To: MadIvan
What? The Turks took the sugar home but left the coffee?
In the old days when a guy came to visit the house of the girl he wanted to marry, he and the parents of the girl would sit in the living room and the girl would serve the coffee. Bitter coffee meant the girl was uninterested. Sweet coffee meant she was good to go..
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posted on
04/27/2003 7:43:10 PM PDT
by
a_Turk
(Lookout, lookout, the candy man..)
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