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After 800 years, why do we still treat St. Francis as a glorified garden gnome?
One of the first things I did when we moved into our semi-furnished rental last year was place a 12-inch concrete statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary — one of the few possessions I'd recovered from the ashes of our house in the Palisades — by the front door. I thought the place needed a brazenly Catholic touch to counteract the tasteful Westside L.A.…
