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.
SOPHONIAS
Zephaniah, Sophonias, Book of Zephaniah
(noun) an Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Zephaniah which are concerned mainly with the approaching judgment by God upon the sinners of Judah
Zephaniah, Sophonias
(noun) a Hebrew minor prophet of the late 7th century BC
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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