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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...
...their parents of Indian or African blood," read the statute of the Dominican order in 17th century Peru. Thus, the lowly Martin de Porres, offspring of a dalliance between a Peruvian grandee and a freed Negro slave girl, could never aspire to full priestly status in the Dominican Convent of the Most Holy Rosary in Lima. He took this mortification humbly, and gave a selfless life of service to the friary and the city as a tertiary of the order. This week Pope John XXIII amended the slight and more: at a 3½-hour cere mony in St. Peter...
...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...