I came across this book plate in a copy of William Temple's Christus Veritas. The owner has impeccable taste! Click on the photo to enlarge it.
The Pope Elected by a Bird
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In his Ecclesiastical History 6.29.2-4, Eusebius of Caesarea recounts the
following story about the election in A.D. 236 of Pope St Fabian, whose
feast is ...
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