Re: Girl Genius (GG) 7 March 2008

In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful David McMillan 
declared:
> > 
>     I noted the bit all "All seven Popes."  I guess Sparkiness made the 
> breakup of the Roman Empire a bit more, er, *fragemented* in the GG
'verse.
> 

I didn't interpret it that way at all. Multiple Popes weren't at all 
uncommon in history, though the most was three during the Great 
Schism. I take the "seven Popes" line to indicate that the Spark 
Wars have created an even bigger schism, with seven rival claimants 
to the papacy, not that there was some early POD WRT the Catholic 
Church.


-- 
Sean O'Hara <http://diogenes-sinope.blogspot.com>
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the Mexicans, and every Christmas we tell you "NO!"
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