[Magdalen] From +Georgia

[Marion Thompson]

It's all delicious :-D

Marion, a pilgrim


On 2/10/2017 5:51 PM, Christopher Hart wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I think it's a little British and/or old-fashioned: a bishop takes the
>> name of his/her diocese as a surname--or others just refer to him/her
>> that way.
>> ​..
>>
>> There's the story of a House of Bishops meeting at which the bishops
>> were lined up to sign in, and the bishop of Western New York got to
>> the book and saw the previous entries: +William Albany, +James
>> Chicago, etc., and he picked up the pen and wrote +Buffalo Bill.
>>
>> ​Another story along these lines relates to the sometime Bishop of Fond du
>> Lac, Reginald Weller and his wife vacationing in Europe. As he signed a
>> hotel guestbook "+Reginald Fond du Lac and Mrs. Weller", the clerk
>> supposedly exclaimed, "Monsigneur is on holiday I perceive."
>>
>> --
>> Scott R. Knitter
>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>>
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