“Bless
You”
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
God bless you variants include God bless or bless you is a common English
expression, used to wish a person blessings in various situations, especially
as a response to a sneeze, and also, when parting. The practice of blessing someone
who sneezes, dating as far back as at least AD 77, however, is far older than
most specific explanations can account for. Gregory I became Pope in AD 590 as
an outbreak of the bubonic plague was reaching Rome. In hopes of fighting off
the disease, he ordered unending prayer and parades of chanters through the
streets. At the time, sneezing was thought to be an early symptom of the
plague. The blessing “God Bless you” became a common effort to halt the disease.
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