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The Kingsmen, the pope’s man, and apples and oranges

The Friday Pillar Post

Ed. Condon
May 20, 2022
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Happy Friday friends,

And a happy feast of St. Bernadine of Siena, the 13th century Franciscan missionary and preacher. St. Bernadine, inter alia, was known for his devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus, and for coming up with the IHS Christogram, taken from the first three letters of Jesus’ name in Greek.

Believe it or not, Bernadine was eventually put on t…

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