Word: prioress
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...spark that ignites this particular witch trial lies in the perfervid erotic imagination of Sister Jeanne (Martha Henry), prioress of St. Ursula's Convent in the town of Loudun. She tells her confessor that in tormented night hours, she is forced to utter obscene words and participate in obscene acts. The nuns in her charge are similarly afflicted. In a fit of possession, with her strangulated sepulchral voice suggesting The Exorcist, Sister Jeanne reveals the devil inside -Grandier-a neighboring vicar whom she has never actually seen...
...aristocratic nun of Monza, Italy (Anne Heywood), is raped by the villainous landowner Gian Paolo (Antonio Sabato). Behold, she likes it -as do many of her colleagues in the convent. Soon Gian Paolo and the priest, Don Arrigoni (Hardy Kruger), are enjoying the favors of novices, nuns and the prioress. In the denouement the nun of Monza, for her sins, is sealed alive in a dungeon. So was the incident at Monza until the Archbishop of Milan-now Pope Paul VI-helped unlock 347-year-old church records in 1957 to reveal the scandal. Perhaps the fate was too harsh...
...Earth. Penderecki based The Devils of Loudun on both Aldous Huxley's historical essay and John Whiting's play The Devils. The libretto sketches the facts surrounding the torture and execution of a Jesuit priest in a 17th century French provincial town. Sister Jeanne of the Angels, prioress of St. Ursula's Convent, asks Father Urbain Grandier (sung by Baritone Andre Hiolski) to become the cloister's confessor. When the worldly, sensual priest declines the offer, Sister Jeanne has a series of hysterical sexual hallucinations that soon infect other nuns in the convent. Eventually, the sisters...
...ours! Blue-eyed soul? The answer to your question-"Does this mean that white musicians by definition don't have soul?"-is simply and unequivocally yes. Obviously they can mouth the words and hit the notes, but, well, it's like Chaucer described the Prioress in The Canterbury Tales...
...pilgrims gather for a fitting finale at the candlelit cathedral shrine of St. Thomas a Becket, and a choral reprise of the prioress' and the nun's earlier simple duet...