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Title: HOLY SMOKE
TRUE PAPAL STORIES THAT WILL AMAZE AND AMUSE
By: Dr. Robert Curran, Donal O'Dea
Format: Hardback

List price: £4.99


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ISBN 10: 0862789478
ISBN 13: 9780862789473
Publisher: O'BRIEN PRESS LTD
Pub. date: 1 March, 2006
Pages: 80
Description: Come for a unique tour of the (un)Holy See, meeting some of history's most entertaining (and often disgraceful) popes.
Synopsis: Is the Pope Catholic? Well, not necessarily. Neither is he always a he, or even always alive. Meet licentious popes, incompetent popes, murderous, debauched and bewildered popes from the pages of history. True stories that are stranger than fiction; factual but entertaining. This is the papacy stripped of pomp and circumstance, a unique tour of the (un)Holy See.
Illustrations: 20 b&w cartoons
Publication: Ireland
Imprint: O'Brien Press Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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