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  • when i was a postulant in a nameless religious community, one of the professed sisters came back from rome with a first-class relic of st. therese of lisieux. first class meant part of her person--bone fragments, usually. one of the other postulants asked, "What IS it, sister?" and another postulant said, "the tip of her nose."

    How many heads did John the Baptist have? AYDIN 2009

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