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All told, the missal numbered 309 pages in its original form.

She remembers weeping as she said her goodbyes to the nuns, including her beloved Sister Claudia, who gave her a missal and a 14th birthday card – her first ever present.

Standing by the lectern to turn the pages of the missal was Robin in scarlet cassock and white linen cotta.

A year later, Francis publicly reprimanded Sarah for misinterpreting a new instruction giving bishops’ conferences the right to translate Mass missals.

The 12th-century missal’s mystique relies on St. Francis and two followers debating God’s plan for them.