# Saint Mary Woolnoth — Poetry character guide

> Saint Mary Woolnoth in Poetry by T. S. Eliot.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mary, Saint

**First appearance:** 0033-i-the-burial-of-the-dead

## Who they are

A church personified in The Waste Land, marking time with a dead sound on the final stroke.

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