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The Church That Came Back From the Dead

While renovating an abandoned church in Norfolk, a retired engineer found 11th-century wall paintings.

St. Germaine de Pibrac, the Suffering Shepherdess

Life was not kind to Germaine Cousin (1579-1601). Her stereotypically cruel stepmother forced Germaine to have her bed in a shed, and she was not allowed to go to school, working instead as a shepherdess.

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