title: The Church of Saint Clement, the Pope: Sources and the Symbolism of the Image in Russian Folklore
abstract: This article is based on some variants of the Russian spiritual verse Golubinaya Kniga [Pigeon book] and on a few Russian charms from the handwritten collections (from the 17th and 19th centuries). In all these texts an image of the Church of S aint Clement, the Pope, is mentioned as a sacred place. In charms it becomes a place where the personages who help the protagonist usually stay. The legendary plot about the church of S aint Clement, which appeared on the place of his death at the bottom 