It is said that the defecation of a pigeon is a good luck – surely no more than that which brought him that pigeon Rotschildi. In search of the origin of the belief, one has to go back to 236 AD.
Emperor Maximino Trazio hardened oppression against Christians and, when he killed Pope Antero martyred, the Christian community had to meet to elect its successor. As most of the time, there was a discussion among a number of people, but there was no clear candidate. At that time he approached a peasant coming from his work. Suddenly, a dove cracked the peasant Fabian on top, and the congregations considered him a sign of the Holy Spirit. As Fabian was secular, there he was ordained a priest, bishop and pope, always according to the historian Eusebio de Cesarea in his work Historia Ecclesiae. Fabian held office until his death on 20 January 250.
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Until now we have believed that those in charge of copying books during the Middle Ages and before the printing press was opened were men, specifically monks of monasteries.
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