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posts from @unreality tagged #patron saint

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Unsurprisingly, very little is known about the patron saint of Redaction. She is most commonly depicted with a black bar of a halo that covers her eyes instead of hovering above the crown of her head. The most famous painting of her adorns her with black robes that fade seamlessly into the starry background, giving uncertainty of where cloth ends and sky begins.

Scholars argue if she even was a woman, or if, in fact, she even existed at all. Records of her life, deeds, and miracles are far and few between. Those which have been uncovered have been highly censored with tentative references to the year and location of her birth, highly scribbled out text of her time in a convent, and her eventual martyrdom. Bitter retired cardinals and the rare loose-lipped Vatican record keeper are the only addtional sources, and even they have few things to add about the saint. Some say she personally knew Mary Magdalene, some claim (heretically) that she was the first and only female pope, while a single nun purports to be a direct descendent. The official word from the Church is, obviously, denial in all cases with the most clear statement being: "Some things are best kept hidden." This rightfully drew criticism with detractors pointing to the Church's own terrible history and awful sins against its own congregations.

Fortunately for our purposes, a great discovery was uncovered recently: a clean parchment from the early 4th century where ███ ██ █████ ██ ██ ██ ██████ ██ God herself.