Unable to tolerate the prospect of being imprisoned once more, in September 1793 he locked himself into his office and shot himself in the face. The pistol malfunctioned and he did not die even though he shot off his nose and part of his jaw. He then repeatedly stabbed his neck with a paper cutter, but failed to cut an artery. He finally used the paper cutter to stab himself in the chest. He dictated to those who came to arrest him the well-known declaration [...] "I, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort, hereby declare my wish to die a free man rather than to continue to live as a slave in a prison") which he signed in a firm hand and in his own blood. His butler found him unconscious in a pool of blood. From then until his death at Paris the following year, he suffered intensely and was attended to by a gendarme, whom he paid a crown a day.
Someone read my postToday I learned that
"in 1187 Sigtuna was attacked and pillaged by raiders from across the Baltic Sea, possibly Karelians,[7][8] Curonian and/or Estonian (Oeselian) raiders.[9][10]"
I didn't know that Vikings got raided back. Was that a common thing?
#443Doctor: Are you sure that you believe your pregnant daughter hasn;t had sex?
Parents: Yes, it must be immaculate conception.
Doctor: Then someone needs to inform the lord that he has HIV.
Well I found it funny.
Is this some advanced theological joke/reference or are you genuinely asking? If the former, I don't get it. If the latter, I read in the catechism Para 490ffNow I'm curious where you read that. Somewhere in Gospel of Mark or later?
496 From the first formulations of her faith, the Church has confessed that Jesus was conceived solely by the power of the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary, affirming also the corporeal aspect of this event: Jesus was conceived "by the Holy Spirit without human seed"
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"Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son."150