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INCENSE BOAT
A sacred vessel, oblong in shape, in which incense is kept and transferred to a censer by means of a spoon.
Today is the Memorial of St. Benedict (480-547), who was born at Nursia in Umbria in about 480 and was sent to Rome to be educated, but soon left the world to live a solitary life at Subiaco. After living in a cave in the mountains for two years as a hermit, he had acquired such a reputation that disciples…
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