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But she goes over the head of her adversarial abbot, Cuno, and convinces the Pope that her visions are the voice of God.

Police said the case first came to their attention in mid-June, when they learned that an abbot in Bangkok had suddenly left the monkhood after being extorted by a woman.

But it was destroyed after the Lincolnshire Rising of 1536, when the last abbot and three monks were executed.

Caldey Abbey commissioned the report, and its new abbot apologised for the pain and suffering caused.

St Beuno, a seventh century abbot, was said to be so grateful to a curlew for rescuing his prayer book after it fell into the sea that he asked for all curlews to be protected.