Word: sacristan
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...small chapel, a shrine to the Madonna of Childbirth. The chapel is half-dark, with ancient rows of pillars lit by hundreds of fluttering candles. All about, black clad women are performing the rituals of worship. Eugenia finds that she cannot bring herself to kneel, and asks the sacristan why only women are worshipping. He tells her that child-bearing and the church are their business; she says nothing in reply. All of a sudden, the air is full of small birds that are flying out of the statue of the Madonna...
...characters of The Rogue's Trial have an intense need for mercy. The Church, represented by a bishop, a priest, and a sacristan, is responsive only to the needs of the rich, personified by Antonio Morris (Frank Gerold) who claims to be "maintaining the ancient leisure of the nobleman." Workers John Cricket and Chico, (Tom Wright and Felipe Michael Noguera) are exploited and abused by their masters, the baker and his wife (Carlo Rizzo and Patricia Dougan), and all of the characters are robbed by bandits...
Kenneth Demsky creates a truly comic whimpering bishop through constant use of his protruding quivering tongue, while Seth Daniel Riemer twitches, screeches and squeals his way toward a successful portrayal of the greedy sacristan...
...that cannot be explained by the fact that he was the son of the keeper of a London livery stable." "Can any biography," said Emerson, "shed light on the localities into which the Midsummer Night's Dream admits me? Did Shakespeare confide to any notary or parish recorder, sacristan, or surogate, in Stratford, the genesis of the delicate creation?" And George Steiner, writing of Painter's biography of Proust, said that it was so explicit, gave so many details of Proust's life that bore directly on A la recherche du temps perdu, that no reader of the biography could...
Extreme Unction. Around midnight Thursday, the hemorrhage began again, and then the spreading disease caused peritonitis-inflammation of the abdominal lining. In the morning the Pope accepted the last Communion (viaticum) from the hand of his confessor, Monsignor Giuseppe Cavagna. Monsignor Peter van Lierde, Sacristan of the Holy Palaces, performed the rite of extreme unction, anointing John's body with holy oil. Afterward, John called Monsignor Cavagna to his bedside, reported L'Osservatore Romano, and "in a clear, firm voice the august Pontiff confirmed his great love for the church and all souls and again offered his life...