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Substitute Francis Jeffers failed to connect with a cross but Purse did convert a flick-on after 87 minutes to ensure a gripping finish.
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Damian, where Christ on the cross came to life and told him: "Go, Francis, and repair my Church in ruins, " recounted Pope Benedict XVI in a 2010 address, according to the Vatican website.
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Francis also raised traditional eyebrows when he refused the golden pectoral cross offered to him right after his election by Monsignor Guido Marini, the Vatican's liturgy guru who under Benedict became the symbol of Benedict's effort to restore the Gregorian chant and heavy silk brocaded vestments of the pre-Vatican II liturgy to papal Masses.
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