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In reply to the discussion: Who needed Judas? [View all]

Act_of_Reparation

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10. Sunt Leones
Mon Jun 3, 2019, 08:30 AM
Jun 2019
My point which up to this has been obscured
is that it was the lions who procured
By chewing up blood gristle flesh and bone
The martyrdoms on which the Church has grown.
I only write this poem because I thought it rather looked
As if the part the lions played was being overlooked.
By lions’ jaws great benefits and blessings were begotten
And so our debt to Lionhood must never be forgotten.


Stevie Smith, "SUNT LEONES" 1972

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