Celescalating

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  • celestial: heavenly → L caeli: heavens
  • escalating: ascending or descending on an escalator; increasing rapidly in scale or intensity
  • escalator: a moving staircase
  • Caelestius: disciple of the heretic Pelagius; Pelagius may have been Irish
    • Pelagius (11th Britannica, which was Joyce's source)
  • Coelestinus: regnal name of Pope Celestine I, who persecuted the Pelagians and sent Palladius to Ireland in 431
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