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But good luck keeping straight the roles assigned to Gabby Beans, who’s called upon to play Mercutio, the Friar and the Prince.

A theologian who later became a Dominican friar, he revolutionised Church teachings with his 1971 book Theology of Liberation.

A friar who knew of his struggle encouraged him to start dating a woman, but it didn’t feel natural.

The other is the speaker of parliament, Szymon Hołownia, who had once considered becoming a Dominican friar.

The series will follow the lives of eight men and women who have been beatfied, including Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene and Maximilian Kolbe, a Franciscan friar who volunteered to die at Auschwitz to save the life of the father of a family.