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* '''Fidelios''' → ''Fidelity'' + ''Leo'' = Faith in Pope Leo XIII, the Pope who reigned during all of Joyce's life to the age of 21
 
* '''Fidelios''' → ''Fidelity'' + ''Leo'' = Faith in Pope Leo XIII, the Pope who reigned during all of Joyce's life to the age of 21
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* '''dusty fidelios''' → see [[deepbrow fundigs]] for more

Revision as of 09:49, 11 July 2006

  • s Adeste Fideles: (Latin: "O Come all ye faithful") popular Christmas carol
  • Fidelio: an opera by Beethoven; Fidelio is the masculine name adopted by Leonore when she disguises herself as a young man
  • Fidele: the masculine name adopted by Imogen in Shakespeare's Cymbeline; when "he" is thought to be dead, Guiderius laments him with the words, "Golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweeps, come to dust"
  • FideliosFidelity + Helios = Faith in the Sun God, or Son of God
  • FideliosFidelity + Leo = Faith in Pope Leo XIII, the Pope who reigned during all of Joyce's life to the age of 21