Enjoyed watching University Challenge on the iplayer tonight. There was a reference to the phrase "Nobody can remember more than seven of anything". I'd heard that before but hadn't known the source. It is the response Cardinal Robert Bellarmine 1542-1621 made to criticism of a catechism he made that omitted all reference to the eight beatitudes. The traditional way of testing this is with the seven dwarfs - Doc, Dopey, Sneezy, Happy, um, er. See!
PS You'll notice that in the shot above Bellarmine hasn't even got as far as me!
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