Re: Woman Who Plays Chess

Chess One wrote:
> "Salvatore Volatile" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:dq1kmp$9ou$3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Skitt wrote:
>>> Robert Bannister wrote:
>>>> Bill Bonde wrote:
>>>>> Chess One wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> Re: Woman Who Plays Chess
>>>>>
>>>>> Now that's a Shock.
>>>>
>>>> I assumed Phil was a woman all along and have been surprised
that
>>>> others, including Kira, have called her a man.
>>>
>>> Philomena?
>>
>> I had a great-grandcousin named (= SAfrE "called") Filomena, but
the
>> name was pronounced more like [flu'men].
>>
>> Filomena was a saint who was later de-sainted, or something like
>> that.
>
> that sounds like me, they threw me out of the girl guides for
> disreputable activitites
>
> the funny thing is, only real blokes seem to be actually interested
in
> women, and how many people are?

I find that some bones found in Rome in 1802 were assumed, on bad
archaeological evidence, to be those a martyred Filumena/Philomena. A
parish priest near Naples got the bones, and a popular cult, complete
with miracles, developed; but it was never official, and the Church
ordered it to stop in 1961. The indecent haste with which Mother
Church now seems to canonize people leads me to wonder if she'll get
restored as soon as some rich Neapolitan decides to take up her
cause.

Advocatus Diaboli? Moi?

--
Mike.


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