Word: conventionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possessed by eight demons. Almost proudly, she rattles off their names-Balaam, Isacaaron, Behemoth, Gressil, Dog's Tail, Amon, Leviathan, and Asmodeus, demon of lust. Asmodeus, of course, possesses many women. But Joan (Lucyna Winnicka) is no common wench: she is the mother superior in a Roman Catholic convent of Ursuline nuns...
...convent is set starkly on a treeless plain, but every day a bell is rung as a homing sound for wanderers "lost in the forest." Following Joan's example, all the sisters have gone erotically mad; they dance naked in their courtyard. Near the convent is a charred stake where the priest who fathered the mother superior's two children died by fire...
...another priest (Mieczyslaw Voit), a good, humble, godly man, has come to exorcise the demons in Mother Joan. Soon, in the convent attic where the sisters' white habits are hung to dry, she smiles at Father Joseph and whispers: "What if the devil left me and entered you?" Cut. A flight of birds appears, whirling and wheeling, uncertain of direction but moving with frenzy. Cut. Back in the attic, Father Joseph is crying...
...Sell Himself. Brother Martin ranks among the church's spectacular healers of the sick and comforters of the afflicted. As the convent's almoner, he gave away more than $2,000 a week in food and clothing to Lima's poor. Placed in charge of the Dominican infirmary, he filled up the beds with ailing human derelicts whom he found lying in the streets. Be fore he died in 1639, Brother Martin had established an orphanage and foundling hospital. He loved animals as well as people, and filled the convent with wounded stray dogs and cats, which...
Martin de Porres' private life was austere. He never ate meat, fasted completely from Holy Thursday until noon on Easter. In imitation of St. Dominic, he lashed himself three times nightly with a whip whose hooked ends were weighted with iron. Once, when the convent fell into debt, he suggested that his superior could raise some of the money by selling him as a slave; the offer was prudently refused...