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It's a mystery mirror.
Weighing 100 pounds, with at least a 100-year history, the circle of greenish glass is known in Sudbury astronomy circles as the "Vatican Mirror."
But on its wooden crate, a little charred from a recent fire, in Latin it has another name inscribed - Speculum Jusititae. Mirror of Justice. The Virgin Mary was also called by the name.
Sudbury, you might not realise, has a long history of folks looking up at the stars, planets and galaxies.

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