It may be myth....and it may just be embellishment....and then again it may be true. Pope Adrian IV was the only English pope....and until the American Pope Leo XIV....the only pope that was Anglo in his ethnicity. The myth or the truth is that he died....this in 1159....after swallowing a fly while drinking wine. Either way it was a throat issue that caused his death.
A few weeks ago....in June....an Indian billionaire and good friend of England's Prince William....died of a heart attack after swallowing a bee while engaged in polo. When I heard that news story my mind immediately went to an 1884 sermon by Charles Spurgeon.
Prince Leopold....the youngest son of Queen Victoria....had died at the age of thirty....and it was in his sermon that Spurgeon mourned the death of the young royal....and mentioned the fly incident.....along with other men who had just dropped over dead at a young age....thus the sermon title....What Is Your Life?
Will any readers actually take fifty minutes to listen to this wonderful and challenging sermon? Probably not....except you....and you might be greatly blessed by it....and I would be so thankful simply to in effect....deliver this sermon in someone's....mailbox....so to speak.
Title: Matthew 6:27 ESV
