Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
AGRIPPINA
Agrippina, Agrippina the Elder
(noun) granddaughter of Augustus and mother of Caligula and Agrippina the Younger (14 BC - AD 33)
Agrippina, Agrippina the Younger
(noun) wife who poisoned Claudius after her son Nero was declared heir and who was then put to death by Nero
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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BEATIFY
(verb) declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood; “On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican”
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