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Several people have died on or near the train trestle at Pope Creek in pursuit of the Pope Lick Monster legend. In 1988, a 17-year-old young man, Jack “J.C.” Charles Bahm II, was hit and killed by a train, and another young man was injured while trying to cross the trestle.
Newspapers reported the alleged sightings, including one in which the monster landed on a man's car after jumping out of a tree, and another in which it threw an automobile tire at a group of people. Newspapers also published a photograph purportedly taken of the creature by Allen Plaster, and locals began driving out to the lake at night to ...
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Pope Urban I (Saint) 222–230, died a martyr [4] Pope Pontian (Saint) 230–235, condemned to mines in Sardinia and died on island of Tavolara [4] Pope Anterus (Saint), elected 21 November 235, martyred at hands of Emperor Maximus [4] Pope Fabian (Saint), elected 10 January 236 and died a martyr during persecution and decapitated by Decius [4]
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Pope Francis on Sunday urged politicians to address the "open wound" of migrant deaths in the Mediterranean, saying he had been praying for the 41 people who died in a shipwreck earlier this month.
Two attempted attacks on Pope Francis, including one by a suicide bomber, were foiled during his landmark trip to Iraq in 2021, the pontiff has revealed in an autobiography.
In 1982, he allegedly thwarted an assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II in Fátima, Portugal, when Juan Maria Fernandez y Krohn, a reportedly disturbed priest, attacked the Pope with a bayonet. [8] In fact, several Portuguese police officers grabbed and disarmed the attacker, preventing the Pope from being stabbed. [9]