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2024-09-07 03:33:16

stefanogaspari on Nostr: Curiosity of the day: Starting from block 139690 (05/08/2011) a miner named Eligius ...

Curiosity of the day:
Starting from block 139690 (05/08/2011) a miner named Eligius started to inscribe a Catholic Prayer in Latin in some coinbase messages.
Block 139690
cbaa0a64924fe1d6ace3352f23242aa0028d4e0ff6ae8ed615244d66079cfb1
(see the hexdump at the bottom of the post).

"Eligius/Benedictus Deus. Benedictum Nomen Sanctum eius." -> block 139690
"Benedictus Iesus Christus, verus Deus et verus homo." -> block 139792
"Benedictum Nomen Iesu." -> block 139831
"Benedictum Cor eius sacratissimum." -> block 139898
"Benedictus Sanguis eius pretiosissimus." -> block 139904
"Benedictus Iesus in sanctissimo altaris Sacramento." -> block 139921
"Benedictus Sanctus Spiritus, Paraclitus." -> block 139942
"Benedicta excelsa Mater Dei, Maria sanctissima." -> block 139977
"Benedicta sancta eius et immaculata Conceptio." -> block 139990
"In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti. Amen." -> block 140181
This is a Catholic prayer composed in 1797 in Latin by the Italian Luigi Felici for the purpose of making reparation after saying or hearing sacrilege or blasphemy.
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