A classic example of how life imitates art... It began when the church commissioned a painting of Saint Longlegs. The artist, famous for painting from the bottom up, realised halfway through that he had misjudged the proportions of the Saint and would ultimately only fit the saint up to his shoulders.
The artist pondered over this until he faked divine inspiration and depicted the first cephalophore, convincing the papal figures that this was indeed how he saw it in his 'vision'.
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