“Bless you”
Why? Why where these word
spoken
Many people have become accustomed to saying "bless you"
or "gesundheit" when someone sneezes. No one says anything when
someone coughs, blows their nose or burps, so why do sneezes get special
treatment? What do those phrases actually mean, anyway?
Wishing someone well after they sneeze probably originated
thousands of years ago. The Romans would say "Jupiter preserves you"
or "Salve," which meant "good health to you," and the
Greeks would wish each other "long life." Many people have
become accustomed to saying "bless you" or "gesundheit"
when someone sneezes. No one says anything when someone coughs, blows their
nose or burps, so why do sneezes get special treatment? What do those phrases
actually mean, anyway?
Wishing someone well after they sneeze probably originated
thousands of years ago. The Romans would say "Jupiter preserve you"
or "Salve," which meant "good health to you," and the
Greeks would wish each other "long life." The phrase "God bless
you" is attributed to Pope Gregory the Great,
who uttered it in the sixth century during a bubonic plague epidemic (sneezing is an obvious
symptom of one form of the plague).
When? When did this saying originate
Well by the Dark Age or the black plaque people would have said
bless you so that God would of heard that so he would of bless the person as
when that saying happen the symptoms would have just gone away
How? How this saying did originates
The phrase "God bless you" is attributed to Pope Gregory the Great, who uttered it in the sixth
century during a bubonic plague epidemic (sneezing is an obvious
symptom of one form of the plague).
Where? Where did this
saying originated
The simple question was in Europe