Word: infidelities
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...more Nasser's crimes, But ever beautiful Jamaica rhymes. Jamaicans hope you'll be contented, and Taking that infidel for granted, Now we hope you'll enjoy your stay Down in Oracabessa...
...said the Vatican last week. But nevertheless, he had made a new Christian. Because baptism is the only means of entry into the Christian community, canon law recognizes the validity of a baptism (according to the correct ritual formula and with the intention to baptize) by anyone-even an infidel...
...Ansiau, knight and onetime Crusader, sets out on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, becomes blind on the way, is captured in the Holy Land by the infidel and lashed to a mill which he is forced to turn like an ox. His son Herbert le Gros, a gay blade who lives life to the hilt, meanwhile sticks to the manor, takes all the land and love he can get, and happily commits incest with his wild and passionate half sister, who hates him ("I shall . . . make his blood rot, send snakes to drink his eyes, and leeches to suck his heart...
...devotion of the medieval Crusaders who marched in great waves toward the unknown East to wrest the sepulchre of Christ from infidel defilement stands in history as an everlastingly marvelous drama. Modern readers (and historians) don't quite know what to make of the Crusades. At best, they speak of a "miracle of faith," at worst of "blind fanaticism" mixed with greed. The word crusade is becoming fashionable again, but few 20th century men can imagine a faith as real, natural and all-inclusive as life itself, so that heroism and villainy, love and war, passion...
...England's towering, blond Richard the Lionhearted stormed the supposedly impregnable fortress of Acre, and later fought at Jaffa with such bravery that when his horse fell, the admiring Sultan Saladin sent him two fresh chargers. But Richard himself had backslid so far as to bargain with the infidel, offering to marry his sister to the Sultan's brother in return for access to Jerusalem...