title: The Saint-a-Day Guide: A Lighthearted but Accurate (and Not Too Irreverent) Compendium
author:  Sean Kelly 
description: I defy you to resist it, whether you believe in saints or not. Liz Smith
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  # Whitemantle
  
  
  ### Book Three of the Language Of Stones
  
  
  ### Robert Carter  
    
    
  
  
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  _For Andrew Ritchie – the Brompton man – who gave me back my fitness._
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _‘I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, in order
  to keep it out of as many things as possible.’_
  
  
  Sean O’Casey
  
  
  The Plough and the Stars
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Table of Contents
  
  
  [Cover Page](001-coverpage.html)
  
  
  [Title Page](002-titlepage.html)
  
  
  [Epigraph](004-epigraph.html)
  
  
  [PROLOGUE](006-prologue.html)
  
  
  [PART ONE THE ENCHANTED CHAIR](007-part1.html)
  
  
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  [CHAPTER ONE DOUBLE DEPETRIFICATION](008-chapter1.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER TWO TRINOVANT](009-chapter2.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER THREE THE BIER OF ETERNITY](010-chapter3.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER FOUR THE VANE](011-chapter4.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER FIVE ‘KILL! KILL!’](012-chapter5.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER SIX ONCE A FELLOW…](013-chapter6.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER SEVEN LEIR’S LEGACY](014-chapte