In article <[email protected]>, Dennis Ahern <[email protected]> wrote: >Does Pasquale translate into English as Peter, or Paul? Neither. The English form is Paschal or Pascal. There are several saints with this name, but the most important is Pope St. Paschal I, in the ninth century. See below: Pope PASCHAL I Memorial 11 February; formerly 14 May Son of Bonosus. Studied at the Lateran. Benedictine monk. Abbot of Saint Stephen's monastery, which was near the Vatican, and which housed pilgrims to Rome. Pope in 817. Defended the Greeks against iconoclastic emperors, and sheltered refugees from the iconoclast persecutions. Supported Saint Nicephorous and Saint Theodore Studites. Enshrined the relics of Saint Caecilia and other martyrs. When two papal officials were found blinded and murdered, Paschal was accused of the crime. He was not involved, but the murderers were members of his household, and he refused to surrender them, claiming that the victims were traitors, and that secular authorities had no jurisdiction over events that occurred within the Vatican. The dispute resulted in the Constitution of Lothair, which set specific limits on the law enforement and judicial powers of the pope. Born at Rome. Papal Ascension 25 January 817 Died 824 See: The Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate -- Regards, Frank Young [email protected] 703-527-7684 Post Office Box 2793, Kensington, Maryland 20891 "Videmus nunc per speculum in aenigmate... Nunc cognosco ex parte"