hagiolatry

Updated: May 5, 2025

I am myself the happy possessor of a little rude wooden bas-relief, framed and glazed, of two saints whose names I have ungratefully forgotten, to whom if you pray as you go out to commit a crime, however heinous, you take your pardon with you a refinement upon the whipping of the saints in Calabria and Spanish hagiolatry.

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