Pygmania

zulu: halala ngosuku lokuzalwa  elibhekwa njengabaThwa ! esperanto: feliĉan naskiĝtagon,  nana !   dutch: gelukkige verjaardag,  dwerg ! norwegian: gratulerer med dagen  pygmé !  danish: tillykke med fødselsdagen,  pygmæ ! finnish: hyvää syntymäpäivää,  kääpiö ! czech: všechno nejlepší k narozeninám, trpaslík ! lol the primary definition of  trpaslík  is 'gnome' casteshano: feliz cumpleaños,  enano ! galician: feliz aniversario,  pigmeo ! catalán: feliç aniversari,  pigmea ! basque: zoriontsu urtebetetzea  pygmy ! maltese: għeluq sninha,  pigmew ! corsican: TANTI AUGURI,*  pygmy !  *the caps are not my doing, it's exactly what google translate spat out. so, yeah, WISHING YOU AN AUSPICIOUS SESSION WITH YOUR AUGUR, pygmy! albanian: gëzuar ditëlindjen,  xhuxh ! (looks like it would sound like someone sneezing?) macedonian: среќен роден...

Francisco de Zurbaran, la Santa Apolonia

La Santa Isabel de Portugal, Francisco de Zurbarán

Once upon a time, St. Vincent of Ferrer started thinking about the alleged "explosion" of sex between Spanish Jews and Christians.  He thought and he thought, and he came away with some questions. Imagine that the King had a daughter.  Even if she consents with pleasure to have sex with you, do you not betray the king in lying with her?  Would you not deserve to be drawn and quartered?  The king is Jesus Christ: are prostitutes not His daughters?  Yes, surely, for he has engendered them in baptism, just as he has engendered you and all other Christians.  Jesus every day impregnates the Church, and the womb is the baptismal font, and he sends there his semen from heaven.  It is therefore the obligation of every Christian woman to honor father and mother, Jesus Christ and Holy Mother Church.  It is also every Christian woman's spousal duty to honor Christ as husband: If a king takes the daughter of a poor laborer as wife, and she leaves him and g...