Dusty fidelios
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Jump to navigationJump to search- 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"
- Fidelios → Fidelity + Helios = Faith in the Sun God, or Son of God
- Fidelios → Fidelity + Leo = Faith in Pope Leo XIII, the Pope who reigned during all of Joyce's life to the age of 21