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...First Day of Friday. Good Intentions is there all right (young Michael Duff, the impoverished Protestant squire who wants only to marry his Dulcie and persuade his servant Atracta to cook breakfast on time). So are Sedition and Salvation (respectively Atracta, the mindless mother of fatherless triplets, and her confessor, the insane but otherwise reasonable Father Behan). There is, furthermore, the besotted yardman Tomo who leads a bull into Michael Duff's kitchen for reasons that to him, at least, seem perfectly logical at the time...
...course of these, the reader tentatively gathers that Hippolyte has been a student and saloniere in Paris, acted in films (he was a natural as Bluebeard's confessor), acquired a mistress whom he arranges to have seduced by delivery boys and other women and whom he finally, in a scene rich in unconscious comedy, sells for 13,000 old francs to a merchant in Tangier. Then there is a wife; he seems to have some notion that he has murdered her. Has he or hasn't he? By this time, the reader may feel that he has been...
Christian hermits began to settle on Athos about the middle of the 9th century. In 959 St. Athanasios, a learned monk, fled to the peace of the Holy Mount rather than accept an appointment as confessor to the Byzantine Emperor. There, he said, the Virgin appeared before him and promised her perpetual protection for the monastery he was building. Eventually, about 80 monks joined him to complete Great Lavra. Today the monastic population is about 2,000, divided into cenobites, who live, work and pray together, and idiorrhythmic monks, who have tiny cottages and apartments and gather only...
Good Night & Goodbye. The Klabins' no-nonsense tradition is carried on by Israel Klabin, who considers himself "a troubleshooter and a father confessor" for his family's business. Last year, despite Brazil's eroding currency, the business grossed well over $60 million. As to which of the many branches is the most profitable, that is a secret the family holds tightly. "I always remember what my father told me about Baron Rothschild," says Israel Klabin. "When he was dying, Rothschild called in his sons and said: 'I have only two things to tell you. Never show...
Extreme Unction. Around midnight Thursday, the hemorrhage began again, and then the spreading disease caused peritonitis-inflammation of the abdominal lining. In the morning the Pope accepted the last Communion (viaticum) from the hand of his confessor, Monsignor Giuseppe Cavagna. Monsignor Peter van Lierde, Sacristan of the Holy Palaces, performed the rite of extreme unction, anointing John's body with holy oil. Afterward, John called Monsignor Cavagna to his bedside, reported L'Osservatore Romano, and "in a clear, firm voice the august Pontiff confirmed his great love for the church and all souls and again offered his life...