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• Sister Annunciata Briffa, A Forgotten Photograph and the Quiet Power of a Religious Life

  

  In an old family photograph, passed down without explanation, there sat a woman in religious habit. She was elderly, composed, dignified, with the softened features of age and devotion. There was no name on the reverse, no date, no inscription, no helpful family note to explain who she was or why her image had been…

  Antony David Davies

  Religion

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