BENEDICT XVI RECEIVES HALF MILLION BEES

Zenit ^ | September 22, 2011

[livius]

I believe honey is pretty nearly sterile, isn’t it? It was used as medical treatment for wounds for millenia.

[Jeff Chandler]

Beeswax candles are also physically superior to paraffin candles, which produce soot.

[Jeff Chandler]

I believe honey is pretty nearly sterile, isn’t it?

I suppose it is since it has such a high sugar content. In food processing plants I have worked in the sweetener lines were the only ones not sterilized with chlorine solutions after production runs. The way it was explained to me is that sugar is so dense that osmosis causes bacteria to explode.

[ELS]

Thank you for that information.

[SuziQ]

Will they be used for Bee-at-tification purposes?

*snort*

[SuziQ]

Will they be used for Bee-at-tification purposes?

*snort*

[onedoug]

Alan Estrin´s Honey Blog

[Mrs. Don-o]

The Easter Exultet also contains honorable mention of the beees (I love this)

Wherefore, in this sacred night, receive, O Father, the evening sacrifice of this incense, which holy Church renders to Thee by the hands of Thy ministers in the solemn offering of this wax candle, made out the work of bees...

Now also we know the praises of this pillar, which the shining fire enkindles to the honor of God. Which fire, although divided into parts, suffers no loss from its light being borrowed. For it is nourished by the melting wax, which the mother bee produced for the substance of this precious light...

[Salvation]

Continue to Pray for Pope Benedict [Ecumenical]