Baptized Coffee

This is from the website Popes in a Year.  It’s been fun to read short bios of each pope during this past year. Here’s to all the coffee drinkers. See. Even Pope Clement several centuries ago knew that coffee can’t be bad for you. 

Fun Fact: We have Pope Clement VIII to thank for the glorious gift of coffee. Though it had been popular among Islamic peoples for centuries, the unusual beverage was finally brought to Rome during Clement’s papacy. Despite his advisers claiming the drink was the invention of Satan, the pope, after taking a drink, reportedly said: “This devil’s drink is delicious. We should cheat the devil by baptizing it.”