Source: Wikicommons
“Agatha Christie (15
September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English crime
novelist, short story writer and playwright.
The Guinness Book of World Records lists
Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly
2 billion copies, and her estate
claims that her works come third in the rankings of the world's most-widely
published books,[1]
behind only Shakespeare's works and the Bible." (Source:
Wikipedia)
Surprisingly, even though not a Catholic, Christie signed a petition
asking Pope Paul VI to allow the Old Latin Mass (sometimes referred to as the
Tridentine Mass), to be celebrated in England and Wales, after the introduction
of the Novus Ordo Missae. As Wikipedia notes:-
The indult acquired its nickname by virtue of a story told about the Pope's acceptance of the petition: the story is that Pope Paul read through the letter in silence then suddenly exclaimed, "Ah, Agatha Christie!" and then signed it. Ever since it has been known, informally, as "the Agatha Christie indult".[2] “(Source: Wikipedia)
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