A question for those who know more about the Catholic faith than I do...

[geminigirl]

In Judaism, numbers and numerology can be very significant. Seven, eighteen, and so on. Numbers have great meaning.

So I know that once the Pope dies, there are nine days of mourning before the College of Cardinals picks the new Pope. Why nine? What's the significance, where does the choice of nine come from? Tell me more about it, please?

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[posthaste.livejournal.com]

in the old days, they would have needed to give the Cardinals travel time to get to to the Vatican for the election.

that was my guess too...