This week’s pope has a bit of an ironic name. During his six years in the Chair of Peter, nothing too exciting happened, and certainly nothing that seemed to live up to, uh, how we currently define "hilarious."

 

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LINKS 

<ul><a href="https://projects.flocknote.com/note/2989462">Pope St. Hilarius</a> (Flocknote's Popes in a Year)
<a href="https://denvercatholic.org/four-saints-with-laughably-ridiculous-names/">"Four Saints with Laughably Ridiculous Names"</a> (Denver Catholic)
<a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07348b.htm">Pope St. Hilarus</a> (Catholic Encyclopedia)
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Hilarius">Pope Hilarius</a> (Wikipedia)
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