Two ships named "Mary Celeste" -- concidence or not?
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Maria Celesta is translated from the Latin as Heavenly Mary. This could mean a woman's name in a Catholic country or Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. In Catholic countries, naming ships in this way was quite common. Certainly they would not name a ship in honor of Galileo's daughter.
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