18 Straight Minutes of Useless Catholic Trivia

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For more than five and a half years, I have  devoted countless hours creating content for   this channel that I thought was interesting  and important, trying to get to the essential   teachings of the Church, the most practical advice  for life as a Christian. And that’s great. The   Church is filled with interesting and important  things, essential teachings and practical advice,   and you should know that stuff. But what  about all the stuff that isn’t practical,   the stuff that you absolutely don’t need  to know, the things that are, in a way,   completely useless to your everyday life? Does  anyone ever stop and marvel at that stuff?   When you’re a part of a Church that’s been around  for 2000 years, there are a lot of historical   facts that get overlooked through the years, and  I think they’re worth hearing as well. And so,   for your viewing pleasure, here is 17  straight minutes of useless Catholic facts. the longest chapter in the Catholic  Bible, coming in at a whopping 100 verses,   is Daniel Chapter 3. The reason I say the Catholic  Bible is because Protestant Bibles removed the   canticle at the end of the chapter, making it only  30 verses in their’s. The longest chapter in the   Protestant Bible, then, is Luke 1, at 80 verses. 48 out of the first 49 popes were named a saint.   That’s a pretty good run. The one combo breaker?  Liberius, a man who was exiled by heretics for   defending orthodoxy and is venerated as a saint  in the Eastern Church… so, he did alright for   himself. I’m sure he was still a pretty good guy. Speaking of popes, there have been 21 popes that   have taken the name John, the most of any name.  Interestingly enough, though, two of those Johns   were referred to as John the 23rd. The reason for  this discrepancy is that John XVI and the first   John XXIII were both antipopes, and because of  a clerical counting error, John XX was skipped.  The saints have long been revered for their  ability to intercede for the faithful,   and thus, have been assigned patrons of certain  causes and groups of people. Nearly everyone   has been accounted for, so those with sexually  transmitted infections can pray to Saint Fiacre   of Breuil, those needing protection from rats  or mice should pray to Servatius of Tongeren,   and unattractive people, although you’re all  beautiful to God, can pray to Saint Drogo Sebourg.  The four Hebrew letters representing God’s  divine name—Y, H, W, H—are referred to as the   tetragrammaton. There are no vowels in the ancient  Hebrew, and so no one knows how it was originally   pronounced, but the latinization of the word,  coupled with a German pronunciation, is how we   get the name Yehovah, or more commonly, Jehovah. The windowed wall on the upper level of a large   churches, sitting above an adjacent  roof, is called a clerestory.   Their purpose was to admit light and fresh air. Vatican City has the highest crime rate of any   sovereign nation in the world, coming in at  around 150%, meaning that there are more crimes   committed than actual citizens. This is pretty  understandable when you consider that there are   only about 500 actual citizens in the whole city,  while five million tourists visit every year.  Sometimes, even death won’t free you from a day  in court, as was the case for Pope Formosus.   After his death in 896, his body was dug up,  placed in papal vestments, and seated on the   thrown to face charges brought against him by  his successor. The trial was aptly named the   Cadaver Synod, and unfortunately for Formosus,  he was found guilty of perjury and acceding the   papacy illegally, nullifying his time as pope. As popular as Brazil’s Christ the Redeemer statue   is in Rio de Janeiro, it is not the largest  statue of Jesus in the world. For that,   you will have to go to Bolivia to see the  Cristo de la Concordia, standing 132 feet tall.  The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, a  compendium of the major teachings of the Church   written for seminarians, is estimated  to have 1.8 millions words… about two   and half times longer than the Bible. The fifth word of the the fifth verse of   the fifth book of the New Testament… is words. the word cardinal can refer to a bird, a color,   or high ranking Vatican official responsible  for electing and advising the pope. Which came   first? The Church one. From the Latin cardinalis,  “hinge,” these men served ‘pivots’ of the Church.   Wearing red to symbolize the blood of  Christ, cardinal came to reference a color,   and then eventually, a red bird. There are 5377 bishops alive in   the world, but as of the recording of the  video, only two are over the age of 100.   Congrats to Laurent Noël and Antônio Afonso  de Miranda who both turned 100 last year.  Before the the Motion Picture Association in  America issued ratings for movies, it was the   Catholic Legion of Decency. Their ratings were  so well-respected that films were actually   submitted to this Catholic organization before  publication for fear of being condemned publicly.  Notre Dame football has a career record  of 9 and 11 playing on January 1,   including a 1 and 7 record since 1995. This is  interesting, one, because Notre Dame is one of   the most decorated programs in football history  and so one would expect them to play well in the   biggest bowl games, but also because January  first in the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God,   whom Notre Dame is named after. The ancient synod of Elvira decreed in   314 that baptized women were not to associate  with hairdressers or men with long hair,   lest she be denied communion. This canon was never  included in any ecumenical council and does not   appear in the current code of canon law. Everyone knows that Charles the great or   “Charlemagne” was the first holy  Roman Emperor, but did you know   that there were two other Charleses in his line:  Charles the Bald, and Charles the Fat. (5:00) While we commonly say that meat is forbidden  on Fridays during lent, the actual designation,   as defined by the United States Conference of  Catholic bishops, is warm-blooded, land animals.   If you’ve got a hankering for alligator tail  or frogs legs during lent, there’s no reason to   abstain, although you should probably still limit  your portions… It’s still a season of fasting.  The Nicene Creed recited at mass most  Sundays did not actually come from   the Council of Nicaea in 325. Although a creed  WAS recited at the original council of Nicaea,   it was later edited and officially adopted  by the Council of Constantinople in 381,   becoming what we know today as the creed  from mass, and more appropriately referred   to as the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed. Except, that’s not entirely true either,   as the creed was updated two hundred years  later in the West, much to the ire of the   Eastern Church. What changed, you ask? The words  “and the son” were added, indicating that the   Spirit came from both the Father AND the son. If you believe that the Trinity consists of   the Father, Son, and Mary and that the son is a  result of marital union between the other two,   you are a part of a group known as  Collyridianism… and you’re a heretic.  St. Catherine’s head is on display in her  hometown of Siena. It’s important to note   that Catherine wasn’t beheaded a martyr, someone  just thought it was a good idea, after her death,   to sever her head from her body to put on display. Speaking of relics, it’s probably assumed that the   Vatican has the most relics of any city in the  world, and this is correct. What you might not   know is that second on the list is the ancient  and holy city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Before Pope Francis, the last pope to take  an original name rather than simply adding   a number to the name of a previous pope, was  Pope Lando in 913, who just used his birth name.   The last pope to simply stick with  his birth name was Adrian VI in 1522.  Before taking a religious name, Mother  Teresa of Calcutta’s name was Agnes.  If you’re in France and want to pray in the  chapel where St. Joan of Arc prayed… tough   luck. Because in 1966 it was moved to the campus  of Marquette University in Milwaukee Wisconsin.  A traditional Roman cassock has 33 buttons  on it, one for each year that Jesus lived.  The most plentiful letter in the Catechism  is the letter t, occurring 41,289   times. 22,216 of those are the word “the.” Al Smith was the first Catholic nominated   for president in US history. He lost in a  landslide to Herbert Hoover, winning only   won 7 states. Oddly enough, 6 of those states  were in the deep south where few Catholics lived.  The 1917 Code of Canon Law stated that when  explorers discovered new lands, the territory   would be placed under the jurisdiction of the  diocese from which the expedition originated.   Since the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission  launched from Orlando, then Bishop William Borders   considered himself the bishop of the moon. He  even informed Pope John Paul II of his authority.  The uniforms worn by the Swiss Guards that  protect the Vatican were actually designed in 1914   in an attempt to look more medieval. Pope Leo X once owned an elephant named   Hanno as a pet, a gift he received from  King Manuel the Fortunate of Portugal.   Leo loved the elephant very much; he sat by  his side when the elephant died, and later   wrote a poem in his honor. As a replacement,  King Manuel tried to send Leo a rhinoceros,   but the boat carrying the animal sank on its way. It is forbidden for a priest to absolve a sexual   sin in the confessional if he was  involved in the act in question.  Physically attacking the pope incurs a  penalty of automatic excommunication.  In the United States, there are 7  additional holy days of obligation   beyond one’s requirement to attend mass on  Sunday. Assuming that mass is about an hour,   those doing the bare minimum will  spend only .67% of their lives at mass.  Even though there is a general rule  against married men becoming priests,   around 125 converts to the Catholic  faith have been given an exception.  Normally, the sacraments  are reserved to Catholics.   But in the case of grave danger, a Protestants  unable to reach their minister, and in agreement   with the teachings of the Catholic Church, can  receive the Eucharist and be validly anointed.  St. Bede the Venerable is the only  English-born doctor of the Church.   St. Anslem, the far more famous English monk  of Canterbury, was actually born in Italy.  Although Waldensians were excommunicated in  the 13th century by the Catholic Church, they   somehow managed to stay in existence until  the present day, living now in Italy,   Germany, Uruguay, and the United States. Before becoming one of the world’s biggest action   stars, Tom Cruise was just a 14-year old boy  attending a minor seminary run by the Franciscans.   Although he only attended the school for one year  and never showed serious aspirations of becoming a   priest, it does make you wonder what the world  would have been like it he had stuck with it.  The movie Sister Act turned out  nothing like originally intended.   Bette Middler was first cast for the lead, her  name was supposed to be Terri, not Deloris,   and the first draft of the script made it a bawdy  satire, not a family friendly classic. So many   rewrites and changes went into production that the  original writer didn’t want to put his name on it   and is instead credited with a pseudonym. The image of Hell freezing over is often   used to describe something that is never going  to happen. And yet, in Dante’s Divine Comedy,   written in 1472, Satan is found in the deepest  circle of Hell, encased in waist high ice.  Speaking of mythological works of literature,  the Lord of the Rings series is not just an   epic high fantasy novel, it’s also packed  full of Catholic imagery and themes,   like how the three main characters—Frodo,  Gandolf, and Aragon—represent the threefold   ministry of Christ—priest, prophet, and king. There are only two UN-recognized countries in   the world without laws for divorce.  Vatican City, and the Philippines.  The next time a pope takes the name Sixtus,  he will be referred to as Sixtus the Sixth.   Unfortunately, this sounds interesting only in  Romance languages, as he would be referred to as   Sixtus a hatodik in Hungarian, Sixtus den sjette  in Norwegian, and sikstus alssadis in Arabic.  At the end of mass, the celebrant and servers  reverence the altar before walking down the   aisle while music plays, and that seems pretty  normal. And yet, there is technically no such   thing as a “recessional” in the Roman Rite. The  Missal simply says, “After making a 
profound bow   with the ministers, he withdraws.” If the priest  has to be somewhere… he’s free to just bounce.  The Church has an official Book of Blessings  used to bless various objects and people. Some   blessings are often used, like the blessing  of a house or advent wreathe, but some are   a bit more unique, like the Order of blessing  an athletic event, tools or other equipment,   fishing gear, or new church doors. Pope John Paul II canonized 482   saints in his time as pope. That comes to a  canonization every 20 days for more than 26 years.  The first woman to receive a doctorate in  computer science was Sister Mary Kenneth Keller,   a sister of charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  He thesis focused on "constructing algorithms   that performed analytic differentiation on  algebraic expression, written in CDC FORTRAN 63.”  There are more Catholics in Brazil than  Italy, France, and Poland… combined.  The southernmost Catholic Church is the  aptly named Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows   in Belgrano II Base, at Bertrab  Nunatak. For those unfamiliar with   the area… that’s on the continent of Antartica. St. Francis Xavier was the first Christian to   make it to Japan, helping the Jesuits convert more  than 100,000 to the faith in just a few decades.   Eventually, priests were expelled  and Christians were persecuted,   but Christianity survived for  more than 300 years underground.  They say that everything is bigger in Texas,  the state is also home to what it claims   to be the smallest Catholic Church in the  world. Seating only 20 people, the church   building of St. Martin’s in Warrenton,  Texas is only 192 square feet in area. Compare this to St. Matthew Catholic Church in  Charlotte, NC, the largest parish in the United   States in terms of congregation. As of 2017,  they reported having 10,500 families, more than   13 percent of the entire population of Charlotte. Most people use Roman Catholic and Catholic as   synonymous terms, but not every Catholic is  technically Roman. There are 23 autonomous,   particular eastern Catholic churches in union  with Rome that have never been Roman or Latin.  Every two or three years, Catholic teenagers  from around the world gather for World Youth Day,   an international celebration consisting of  prayer, confessions, shows, music, and of course,   mass with the pope. In 1995, 5 million  attended the papal mass in Philippines,   a record held until 2015, when 6 million  people attended, also in the Philippines.  The earliest baptismal fonts were  simple, rectangular holes in the ground.   The reason? They were meant to look like  tombs, the place where one died and raised   with Christ through the waters of rebirth. At this point, you’ve been watching this video for   more than 14 minutes. Clearly you’ve either fallen  asleep or you’re actually enjoying it. If you’re   still awake, why don’t you go ahead and subscribe  to the channel, maybe even click that notification   bell? Thanks. Already, back to the useless stuff. Before the Eucharistic Prayer begins, there is a   dialogue between the priest and congregation known  as the preface. Throughout the liturgical year,   there are a total of 156 options. The Big Bang theory is a cosmological   model of the observable universe from the  earliest known periods through its subsequent   large-scale evolution. It’s also the result of  the work of a Catholic priest, Georges Lemaître,   who was the first to suggest that the expanding  universe could be traced back to a single point.  Modern Western music notation has  the Catholic Church to thank for   its organization and structure, as it  was the Church’s desire for uniformity   that a comprehensive system was developed. In remembrance of Jesus’ 40 days in the desert,   Catholics devote 40 days in lent to doing penance.  Only… there are 46 days between Ash Wednesday   and Easter. Besides that, Ash Wednesday is not a  holy day of obligation… no one has to get ashes.  The dome of Santa Maria del Fiore, the Cathedral  in Florence, is the largest masonry structure in   the world, consisting of over 4 million bricks.  The base of the dome begins 177 feet above ground   and rises another 108 feet. If  you think that’s incredible today,   think about building it in the 13th century.  No wonder it took 140 years to build.  The maximum alcohol percentage of wine used  at mass is 18%. If it’s higher than that,   the mass is invalid, and your  congregation might turn into invalids.  The first instance of a bishop wearing a  pectoral cross comes in the 13th century,   although it was not widespread at that point. Each season of the liturgical year has   its own Marian hymn: Alma Redemptoris  Mater for from Advent until February 2,   Ave Regina Caelorum from February  2 until the Easter Vigil,   Regina Caeli for Easter, and Salve  Regina from Pentecost until Advent.  Where did these hymns come from, you ask? It’s  hard to say for sure, but many believe that the   Salve Regina and possibly the Ave Regina Caelorum  were written by Hermanus Contractus, also known as   Herimann the Lame since he was born with a  cleft palate, cerebral palsy, and spina bifida.  The Lectionary Cycle of readings at mass covered  a large part of the Bible, but not nowhere close   to all of it. 96.3% of Mark is read throughout the  years, but 6.3% of the book of Numbers and none of   1 Chronicles, Judith, or Obadiah. All told, if  you were to attend mass every day of the year,   you’d get 13.5% of the Old Testament and 71.5%  of the New Testament, meaning… that you should   probably do some reading on your own. Technically speaking, you can’t   spell Catholic without CHAOTIC Despite being a global Church,   the first non-European cardinal to vote  in a papal conclave was James Gibbons,   the archbishop of Baltimore, in 1903. Today 66 of  the voting cardinals are from outside of Europe,   accounting for 52% of the votes. And finally, wrapping up this useless time   together, the Salvator Mundi painting by Leonardo  DiVinci was sold at an auction in 2017 for 450   million dollars. With that amount of cash, you  could buy 1.5 million moderately priced chalices,   16 million Study Bibles, or 36 billion hosts  for mass. That’s a lot of potential holiness   in one painting, and this has been a lot of  useless Catholic information. I hope you’ve   learned something new that you can share at a  socially distanced cocktail party in the future.
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Published: Mon Jan 18 2021
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