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...Dons Delight is a series of dialogues among imaginary dons in an imaginary Oxford College (Simon Magus), taking place at 50-year intervals from 1588 to 1938. In the early passages, Monsignor Knox does not spare his readers the "brutish superstitions" and the "idolatrous mass-altars" which were the phrases of anti-Catholics. Nor, later, does he disdain to write comedy...
...person rebuked in these words is Simon Magus, who, while journeying in Samaria, encounters St. Peter and St. John, who have brought the gift of a new illumination to the converts of the young deacon Philip. They have taught and blessed, and the marvelous tokens of this transforming presence straightway became manifest in them. Simon sees and wonders at it and eager to rouse a kindred ardor says: "Give me this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost." The text is St. Peter's answer...