Help! I'm soaked to the bone.
There's no sun, nothing to dry my body,
nor heat to warm my soul.
It just keeps pouring, and flooding,
and driving me away.
I can't even clear my eyes to see!
Help me Lord!
Give me something, some dry land,
some foothold in this world.
Subdue the waters and give me your
Daystar.
Please help me! I fear I can't tread
the waters much longer.
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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