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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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