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Fr. Michael Giesler

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Fr. Michael Giesler is a priest of Opus Dei residing in St. Louis. He is a member of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars and a senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology in Steubenville, Ohio. He has authored popular novels depicting the lives of the early Christians in Rome: Junia, Marcus, and Grain of Wheat (Scepter Publishers).

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