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Train to Stranraer, ferry to Larne, bus to Belfast, coach to Galway. Courtesy of Two Doors Down (Christmas Eve, BBC1), who doesn’t know how to get from Glasgow to Galway?

It’s a well-known origin story: how the young and wealthy Francis of Assisi freely abandoned his noble patrimony to serve Christ’s Church as a poor, itinerant preacher. One of the world’s most beloved ...

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