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Gregory’s shoulder with its beak in the Pope's mouth. When the dove took its beak out of the Pope’s mouth, he would begin to speak again, and Peter would continue to write down his words. The bird was supposedly the Holy Ghost in the form of a dove, and when it put its beak into the
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