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- ...that when St. Andrew's Church (pictured) in Pasadena was built in the 1920s, it was compared to "a jeweled crown on the head of a Byzantine queen"?
- ...that the papal election, 1292-1294 was the last election of a pope which did not take the form of a conclave?
- ...that having moved to South Africa to start his missionary work at age 22, Joseph Gérard died at age 83 in Lesotho without ever returning to his home country of France?
