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Archive for March 6th, 2008

Mystery: The Grave Tattoo, by Val McDermid

Posted in Book Review, History, tagged , , on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A bit of a departure
Val McDermid is an excellent writer, one of my favorites in the gritty mystery genre, so I did not hesitate to pick up The Grave Tattoo. This new offering is detective story, with some truly nasty goings-on, but it involves more painstaking scholastic research than typical sleuthing [...]

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“Relics” of John Paul II not for sale

Posted in History, supernatural, tagged , , on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Rome, Sep. 25, 2007 (CWNews.com)
Officials of the Rome diocese have scaled back a campaign to distribute relics of the late Pope John Paul II , after a spate of media reports forced Church officials to clarify that the relics were not for sale.
Officials promoting the cause for the beatification of the late Polish Pontiff have [...]

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