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Cecilia is regarded as the patroness of music, because she heard heavenly music in her heart when she was married, and is represented in art with an organ or organpipes in her hand. Agnes and honey live at the super strict religious commune mt. The patron saint of butterflies by cecilia galante kirkus. Galante offers a glimpse into one communes routines, a commune housing people who are so desperate to believe in something, anything, that their clouded judgment refuses to see the truth hiding beneath the fancy. The author of the patron saint of butterflies, cecilia galante, reported that it was a place where she was always writing, including early stories passed down from her father, tom plummer.
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