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tjwmason Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-03-05 02:32 PM
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Pointless factiod of the day
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Today is the reason that the hunchback of Notre Dame is called Quasimodo.

In the old (pre-'60s) liturgy of the R.C. Church the introit at Mass for the first Sunday after Easter (today) began Quasi modo geniti infantes, alleluja (Like as the young children, alleluia), and thus is known as Quasi Modo Sunday (as well as Domenica in Albis and Low Sunday). A young baby was (according to the legend) discovered in the porch of Notre Dame Cathedral, and the clergy decided to name him after the day as Quasimodo.

Not that anybody needed to know that...
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