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#13: The Priest’s Habit

f asked, most people would probably assume that the priest’s collar was loaded with religious meaning and ancient tradition. You call a priest a ‘man of the cloth’ in reference to his garb, after all. Yet for all the formalities and rituals of religion, the unmistakable image of the priest in his white collar is not primarily ruled by symbolism, but is as straightforward as it appears: it means he is a

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