Monday, February 23, 2015

“Bless You”

The common expression bless you or god bless you is used in various situations. It wishes a person blessing after different situations, epically after a sneeze. This phrase has been used in the holy bible used in the Hebrew bible by Jews and Christians. This word was originated by the Romans and dated long back, at least AD 77. Gregory 1 became pope in 590 AD but was affected by the Bubonic Plague.  To end the disease, he ordered unending prayers and parades of chanters through the streets. At the time, people thought sneezing was a sign of the plague. Sneezing made them believed there soul can be thrown out of there body, otherwise they thought they were invaded by the Devil or Evil spirits. Now, we figured out that we sneeze because the heart stops beating for a moment.   



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