Yet when, in 1988, Sapieha revisited his childhood home, now in Belarus, he discovered that no identifiable trace of their rambling mansion had survived, but the legend of the English lady who every week arranged flowers at the local church thrives among a population largely ignorant of formal history.

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The Presbyterian mystic fell in love with the island, built an enormous church to seat three times the then island population of 100 and started working Sanibel into his sermons wherever he went, convinced that God had arranged his boating accident.

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