Interrupted Mass – Antonio Lucio Vivaldi

Because of his red hair, famous Venetian Baroque composer and priest Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (1678-1741) was nicknamed The Red Priest (il Prete Rosso).

Although he managed successfully to balance his occupations, as a priest and as a musician, on one occasion Vivaldi found himself before the ecclesiastical court.

Why?

Because he felt a sudden wave of inspiration while holding a Mass, and he interrupted it and went to take a paper and a pen.  At the dismay of other priests and believers who came to attend mass, he had to immediately write down his musical thoughts.

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How old are you? – Zsa Zsa Gabor

Zsa Zsa Gabor (1919), American actress of Hungarian origin (also known for being crowned as Miss Hungary in 1936 and for having nine husbands) was convicted in 1989 for slapping the face of a police officer named Paul Kramer when he stopped her for a traffic violation in Beverly Hills.

What did the court ruled for this former beauty and sex symbol?

To spend three days in jail and to enter her real date of birth in her identity documents.

The later was because, in her documents,  Zsa Zsa Gabor listed that she was born a quarter-century later that she really was. 

 

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