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Posted on December 10, 2010 | Leave a comment

Folks, just about dug out of the schedule craziness. I’ll be back posting soon!

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Francis of Assisi--part of an altarpiece by Bartolomeo Vivarini, in the Brooklyn Museum
From a mid-15th-century Dutch prayerbook: Saint James the Great; Saint Joseph; Saint Ghislain, abbot of St Ghislain, near Mons; Saint Eligius; Saint Ermes (Hermes)
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