Pope Shenouda III: conduit with God and BBQ aficionado.
With all the bad news coming out of Cleveland lately, it’s nice to know the city can still attract A-list tourists. Case in point: Pope Shenouda III.
Shenouda, known to his friends as “the Nood,” is the 85-year-old leader of the Coptic Church, a minority sect in Egypt. According to the L.A. Times, the pope slipped on a carpet in his home on Monday, breaking his thigh bone in the fall. After lying on the floor for eight hours in what we can only imagine was excruciating pain (the Pope doesn’t have a personal assistant?), his Holiness was loaded onto an Egyptian air-ambulance for the transatlantic flight to Cleveland. …
This article appears in Jun 11-17, 2008.
You sure this wasn’t some marketing scheme in conjunction with the papal exhibition at Western Reserve Historical Soceity? Remember when the Rock Hall hired the Flying Elvises…