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Welcome to Priseaux, France, 1250 A.D.:
The river flooded again last week. The chandler’s shop just burned to the
ground. Nobody’s heard of the wheelbarrow yet. And Saint Foy, the patron of
the local monastery, hasn’t worked a miracle in thirteen years. In other
words, the Dark Ages still look pretty dark. All eyes turn to the Pope, whose
promised visit will surely encourage other pilgrims to make the trek and
restore the abbey to its former glory. That is, until a rival church claims
to possess the relics of Saint Foy—and "their" bones are working
miracles. All seems lost until the destitute monks take a lesson from a
larcenous one-eyed minstrel, who teaches them an outrageous new way to pay
old debts.
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