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.
SAKKOS
Etymology
Noun
sakkos (plural sakkoses or sakkoi)
(Eastern Orthodoxy) A richly decorated vestment worn by Orthodox bishops, instead of a priest's phelonion (chasuble in western church).
Coordinate terms
• alb, epigonation, epimanikion, epitrachelion, maniple, omophorion, rhason, sticharion, zone
Source: Wiktionary
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