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Discover more authors youll love listening to on audible. When father anselm is asked this question by an old man at larkwood priory, his response, to claim sanctuary, is to have greater resonance than he could ever have imagined. The sixth lamentation by william brodrick, paperback barnes. Brodrick, himself a former augustinian friar, is a master of precision plotting, morally complex characterization, and crisp historical recreation.
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