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A few trinkets, past present and to come

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A few All Saints’ Day tidbits

J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Death of St. Brendan”

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St. Therese of Lisieux’s “To Joan of Arc” (the Maid was not canonized until after St. Therese’s death” has these lovely lines:

But that was only a fleeting glory.

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