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The little known woman behind the great Papal hymn “What Fairer Light?”

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St. Peter by Peter Paul Rubens/Wikipedia Commons | St. Paul by Peter Paul Rubens/Museo del Prado

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Written in the fifth century and translated into English by Anglican convert Fr. Ronald Knox, the ce… […]

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