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 | | These are then taken to the Basilica of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, their wool there spun and woven by the Benedictine nuns of St Cecilia into the pallium the Pope next blesses on the altar above St Peter's Tomb, then gives to each archbishop, the pallium signifying their rank in the Church's hierarchy. |
 | | She is said to have lived in the time of Pope Urban I (222-230), but in his reign there were no persecutions against the Christians. |
 | | Birgitta of Sweden used to pray daily to Saint Agnes of Rome who, in a vision, offered to her her own mosaiced crown and who, as a native speaker and a woman, succeeding in teaching the Swedish saint her needed Latin, which her male ecclesiasts had failed to do. |
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