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 The Vatican made a little error on its new medal made in honor of Pope Francis.
October 11th, 2013
11:18 AM ET
Praise 'Lesus'? Vatican pulls misspelled coinsBy Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog Co-editor [twitter-follow screen_name='BurkeCNN'] (CNN) - For the love of "Lesus," the Vatican needs a copy editor - preferably an infallible one. In honor of the first year of Pope Francis' papacy, the Vatican issued a commemorative medal Tuesday. The coin-size medals are sold in Vatican City and usually provide a steady stream of revenue for the church. Just one problem: The Vatican misspelled the name of Jesus on the medal. One side depicts Francis and the other a biblical phrase in Latin: Vidit ergo Lesus publicanum et quia miserando atque eligendo vidit, ait illi sequere me. The phrase means: Jesus, therefore, saw the tax collector, and because he saw, by having mercy and by choosing, He said to him, "Follow me." Except the tax collector on this particular coin is part of the heretofore unknown Lesus Movement. The Vatican said the Latin phrase profoundly affected the future Pope Francis at age 17 when he heard God calling him to the priesthood. In his native Argentina and in his nascent papacy, Francis has made a point of ministering to people on the margins and preaching about mercy. MORE ON CNN: Pope Francis: Church can't 'interfere' with gays But when the Vatican drew up the medal, it flubbed the Latin phrase, said spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi. (It's worth noting that Latin doesn't have a "J," so maybe we should cut the Vatican a bit of slack.) Lombardi said the Vatican is to blame for the mishap, saying the error was made "in the preparation, not the execution." The Italian Minting Institute made about 6,000 of the "Lesus" medals and retrieved all but three or four, according to media reports, which means a few folks are holding onto some pretty valuable mistakes. Others are having fun with the misspelled phrase on social media, with some blaming the "Lesuits" and others asking "What would Lesus do?" Lesus wept.
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would have been hilarious is it was jeebus instead....save me jeebus (gotta be a simpsons fan to get it)
"i don't pray very often, but if you are up there, save me superman"
A fortuitous error that will make the coin even more valuable? Like stamps with an error? Lust wondering.
Maybe if they had studied their Jatin at bit more...
Lysis! Lysis! Lysis! Lysis!
Lysis! Lysis! Lysis! Lysis!
Oh, I thought they were talking about General Lysis of Gamilon. 🙁
I love Star Blazers. There is a live action version that was done in J.apan. Check it out on You tube.
OMG! Prayers to Lesus are every bit as effective as prayers to Jesus! Who would have guessed?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3IMfIQ_K6U&feature=player_detailpage
Lod dammit! With two Popes, no less!
Why did you paint three Jesuses??!!
The fat one balances the two skinny ones!!!
You don't need to have taken Latin that there is no J....have we all not seen Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade???? "It's Latin, there is no J! Jehova starts with and I"
So does IESVS
Does no one remember Indiana Jones? The word of god... jehovah. But in the latin alphabet jehovah begins with an I.
You and I left almost the same comment at exactly the same minute, haha. Your quote is correct to the movie....I tried to remember the best I could, but same Idea!
I am wondering why it is so early in honor of a new pope!
How did you celebrate your FIRST wedding anniversary?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=pQQ-wvoabpI
Yeah.. but do they do that for every pope? I am thinking along the lines of "Sainthood."
Don't know @Vic, not familiar with sainthood and all that...
I am sure you agree this Pope has made good progress in terms of reaching out to humanity with the love of God , which is commendable!
Well, he sure has reached out to the world with goodwill; however, as a Protestant Christian, I believe that the "Love Of God" grants "Salvation" through "Faith" ALONE in Jesus Christ as Lord and personal Savior, and apart from the "Law." That also means that Jesus Christ is the ONLY "Mediator" to God the Father, and that the Papacy is only a Human Doctrine.
John 14:6
🙂
God bless you.
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As the catholics say: "Peace be with you" and you repeat back to them "And with you".
God Bless you @Vic
Peace be with you!
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It's a souvenir for religious tourists in Rome. Yes they do it for every Pope. The surprising thing here is it took them this long.
Correct. Look here:
http://www.romegiftshop.com/catholicmedals.html
Hurry. Buy now and you get a FREE Vatican postcard!
Not that much about honoring but marketing $$$$.
Yawn...
Just another religion bashing.
Well if they wouldn't leave such a myriad of holes in their dogma, it wouldn't be so easy to illustrate who pathetic these pre-Iron Age gods and ideas are.
Just as a matter of curiosity, I wonder how much one of those uncollected coins will be worth in a hundred years or so...
I would speculate it would be worth a bundle to collectors, just like US coins with errors, like double strike coins stc. Now would be a great time to get hold of some as an investment. But good luck doing so; I suspect they are not going out where someone could get them any time soon!
So the Vatican quickly recalls the coin with it's digit in the wrong place but can't seem to recall all the priests who keep putting their digits where they don't belong...
Since they secretly serve Lucifer that's why they put the L. The British Pound , Pound starts with P and should be represented by a P , but it's represented by a £ or L because they serve Lucifer. Go figure.
The Vatican prints currency for the U.K.? huh?
Recalling defective humans is a little more complicated. Maybe we've been praying to Jesus all this time and it should HAVE been Lesus. Might as well pray to lexus or jebus. All currently produce the same result.
What's the big deal?
The Vatican didn't claim to be infallible.
This isn't an ex-cointhedra minting.
Da-boom (rimshot)
Jordy, jordy, half of catholics would fvck up the Jords Prayer if they had to say it on their own, Lesus, Lesus!
Good thing he didn't put a P in there instead of the S as well. They we would have had "Vidit ergo Lepus publicanum"- "The rabbit saw the tax collector."
This is a ridiculous story. They actually spelled his name LESVS, and do you know why? Because there are no Js or Us in Latin. It wasn't a typo, it's just how things are spelled in a different language that most people know nothing about.
Source: Someone that took two years of Latin and one year of Ancient Literature.
"Latin is a language as dead as dead can be.
First it killed the Romans and now its killing me."
– Lament of the Latin Student
It would have been spelled IESUS. An I, not an L. As in "Iesvs Nazarenvs Rex Ivdaorum."
I second that. It was supposed to have been an I.
I'm going to assume you didn't pass those two years, Iessica.
"(It's worth noting that Latin doesn't have a "J," so maybe we should cut the Vatican a bit of slack.)"
Because they have never spelled the name Jesus in Latin, right? Fail.
Or a U, for that matter. No one seems too upset that the U is a V.
An "L" is incorrect. It should have been "I".
It might very well could have been a "mirror image" of the letter "J" mistake.
It would help if there was a "J" present to compare it to.
Silly question...is there J's in Catholic Latin?
Nevermind...got my answer.
could be..an interesting thought!
Praise Lesus!
From your handle, I thought you would have said 'praise Jucifer'
lol Master of Juicing
Come to think of it, CNN should also think of hiring an infallible copy editor: it's SEQUERE, not SEQURE
Yes, and they blew the "atque" as "antque" too. Several other news reports have messed up the "atque" too, so they probably picked it up from one of them - just one example of how "scribal errors" perpetuate and even become believed.