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Clericalism and the disappearance of popular devotions

July 10, 2019 Amy Welborn 13

Steadily they walked, well-dressed, serious, each carrying a staff or a lit candle about a meter long, even the children. Over the two hours or so that we watched, there were hundreds of them—men and […]

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