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...empty social proprieties of her funeral and his sense of disgust at the bickering over her will. Chace's beautifully proportioned prose flows smoothly, at times almost rhythmically. He seems most at home describing nature. In the scene where young Michael sneaks out the door of the cemetery chapel, the lingering description of the countryside is like a breath of fresh...
Exorcists & Psychiatrists. While sticking up for the existence of demonic possession, the authors readily concede that many people reportedly "possessed by the Devil" probably belong in the psychiatrist's consulting room, not the chapel. The frantic witch burnings of the 16th century, furthermore, in which Protestants and Catholics participated with equal zest, are explained in Satan largely as the products of their times. This heyday of witch burnings, black Masses (i.e., profane renderings of the Catholic Mass) and Devil worship, writes Belgian Scholar Emile Brouette, represented "the dawn of the false empire of Satan in a Europe gripped...
...reflected in many of the watchers. At Windsor, as another procession formed to escort the King to his last resting place, an irritated bystander muttered: "Stand still, please. Stand in one place so people can see." The Archbishops of Canterbury and York were waiting in the castle's Chapel of St. George to perform the last rites. The Primate spoke the old words from the Book of Common Prayer: "Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of His great mercy to take unto Himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body...
...first, he didn't like the Point, and still recalls that "the discipline was awful." He was among the smallest in his class, and perhaps the sloppiest cadet the Point had ever seen. Once, when the cadets were ordered to wear side arms to chapel, Wood forgetfully marched in with a rifle. Another time, he showed up for guard duty with his shirttail hanging out, and was saved by a friend who threw a raincoat around him. Eventually he put on enough muscle and height so that he was twice selected to represent his class in bare-knuckle bouts...
...also denied that the students were planning to hold the Mass at midnight in the University chapel, "with someone rising from a coffin in the transept and deflorating a virgin on the altar as the conclusion of the Mass. There is no authority for this in any of the literature on the Mass, and it seems impractible. On the contrary, our ceremony would have been quite conservative and restrained...