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Broken

  • Writer: John Service
    John Service
  • May 17
  • 1 min read

The Pope wears a gold ring known as the 'fisherman's ring', because it contains an image of St Peter fishing (St Peter, the first Bishop of Rome, was a fisherman, and was told by Jesus that he would make him a 'fisher of men').  Each Pope's fisherman's ring is unique to him and carries his name.  It is broken on his death.

 
 
 

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