Our Lady was seventy-two years old when she died. There are seventy-two Books in the Bible. Our Lord chose seventy-two disciples. The Septuagint (that is, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament) was the work of seventy-two Jewish scholars. The translation is called the Septuagint because that word means the “Seventy.” These men were commissioned to do this laborious service by the Egyptian King Ptolemy Philadelphus in the third century B.C. And the great Discoverer, Christopher Columbus, took seventy-two days to cross the ocean.
