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A jackdaw became a saint – at least in a story

A fictional jackdaw is found in the Ingoldsby Legends of R. H. Barham, the Jackdaw of Rheims which stole the cardinal’s ring, but returned it and became a local saint.

He long liv’d the pride

Of that country side,

And at last in the odor of sanctity died;

When, as words were too faint

His merits to paint,

The Conclave determin’d to make him a Saint;

And on newly-made Saints and Popes, as you know,

It ’s the custom, at Rome, new names to bestow,

So they canoniz’d him by the name of Jem Crow!

R. H. Barham, the Jackdaw of Rheims

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