To the faithful, St Peter - the disciple and first pope - started the official church in Rome at the conclusion of his journey after Christ's Ascension.

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The festival was organised by the Churches' Millennium Office to coincide with the Pentecost, when Jesus' disciples joined together for a feast in Jerusalem shortly after Christ's ascension.

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Days and months are named after (pagan) gods, while our years are numbered after the birth of Christ.

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This, arguably, was the contrast that every great Mediterranean mind had to wrestle with for several centuries before and after the life of Jesus Christ.

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The faith's official theology, after wrestling with the different senses in which Christ was human and divine, had crystallised with the pronouncement in the early fifth century that Mary was Theotokos, the Mother of God: the person whose body was the miraculous locus of a unique cosmic event, the coming together of the Creator and the created, physical world.

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"That consciousness of using very high-quality herbs and spices and other materials that are much sought after and rare does add to that sense of it being Christ-like in its quality, " he said.

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Also, Christ the King accused a Nazareth staff member of erasing one of its players names from the scorebook after the 77-47 Nazareth victory.

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At 11, thanks to the generosity of a relative, he was sent to Christ's Hospital school, where he learned to play the clarinet, and it was there, after hearing a recording of a Beethoven symphony, that he decided he wanted to become a conductor.

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