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God bless you. The custom of saying God bless you after someone sneezes supposedly arose with St. Gregory the Great, who said it to people during a plague in which sneezing was of- ten a symptom. The custom has been widespread throughout the world since ancient times, though notably among the Greeks and the Romans, who exclaimed Absit omen! Another theory claims that Satan can’t enter a sneezer’s body when this blessing is offered. |