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Had my father lived he would have been ninety-five today. He succeeded my beloved mother by eight years when he died at the turn of the century, having been a professional guitarist in his early years and brilliant jazz pianist throughout his life which was balanced by him incoungruously becoming an accountant, later a company secretary and company director. Such employment provided for his wife and child in a way that music could not, but he disliked the business world and lived for his music. Like my mother, he was a truly extraordinary individual, blessed with huge intelligence and not a little eccentricity. We lived in London at a time when it appeared to be, and probably was, the centre of the universe. The 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s were extraordinary times to be alive, especially in a city like London. My parents both died in London, but it had long since ceased to be what it once was and I quit the capital in the 1990s.</div>
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My father was not overtly religious, but nonetheless believed in Our Lord and toward the end of his life asked to be baptised because he was uncertain he had been as an infant when England was going through the upheaval and aftermath of the First World War. He was baptised at our Oratory of the Precious Blood in South Hertfordshire.</div>
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My parents were quite unique, even for their time, and are greatly missed. What I miss most is their innocence. Their love for me was always evident and it is a comfort to know they saw me settled.</div>
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St Teresa of Avila, a saint my mother was drawn to early in her life, receiving the Blessed Sacrament. (Inset) my mother receiving the Blessed Sacrament; fortuitously the final photograph taken of her on the Feast of St Francis of Assisi 1991, one year before she passed into the Lord's safekeeping on the feast of the Holy Guardian Angels 1992.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I am first referred to in his writings in <i>The Occult</i>, published in 1971.
The book covered subjects such as Aleister Crowley, George Gurdjieff, Helena
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Dunglas Home, Paracelsus, P D Ouspensky, William Blake, Giacomo Casanova,
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<span style="background-color: #fff3db; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;"><b>Before you take your leave from the internet, it would be very appreciated if you could give us a good bibliography. Books relating to demonology and the supernatural, as well as books that had a profound impact on your life. Something to build our minds with in your absence. Thanks for everything. Pax vobiscum.</b></span><br />
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Books that most made an impact, of course, are the Bible and the lives of the Saints. I was influenced at a young age, probably in my early teenage years, by the writings of Montague Summers on such topics as demonology and vampirism. After Summers, I found more obscure writers on this hidden area, but I am loathe to list a bibliography, just as I am loathe to encourage anyone to take undue interest in such a perilous region of supernaturalism. Individuals called to the ministry of specialised exorcism where such knowledge is paramount will uncover all they need to know soon enough, and for them the <i>Rituale Romanum</i> is essential. Should more need to be known about these things, I would suggest something relatively easy to comprehend which is nevertheless comprehensive in its execution, and to that end I heartily recommend the former Roman Catholic priest Anthony Finlay's <i>Demons! The Devil, Possession & Exorcism</i> (Blandford, 1999). Dr Finlay has taught Latin and for many years studied the Bible and theological literature, as well as having direct experiences of possession and exorcism. His book contains a very good bibliography and seven excellent appendices.</div>
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However, a strong faith is worth more than a hundred thousand books. Live your own story. Above all, allow your faith to shine.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;">Greetings in Christ. </span><span style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;">I am sorry that His Grace will soon cease to write on this blog, but I believe I understand the desire for privacy. I sincerely thank His Grace for answering so many of my questions over the years. I hope the blog (albeit inactive) will be left on the internet so that His Grace's responses to past questions can still be read. </span><span style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;">I should also like to ask about deliverance prayers. A lot of Protestant sources say that the Blood of Jesus should be invoked against demons and curses. Is this an effective method, and are these deliverance prayers of Protestant origin acceptable for Catholics to use? </span><span style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;">I thank His Grace for his time and consideration, and ask God to bless him abundantly. </span><span style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;">In Christ, </span></b></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Theodore Conrath</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><small style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><big><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/pb-glories1.htm">BALM FOR THE SICK AND CONSOLATION FOR THE DYING</a></big></small><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/precious-blood31.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">AN EASY MEANS TO PREVENT NUMEROUS MORTAL SINS</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/precious-blood29.htm">A </a></span><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/precious-blood29.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">VERY USEFUL MANNER OF HIDING IN THE FIVE SACRED WOUNDS AS TAUGHT BY CHRIST TO ST. MECHTILDE</a><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/prayer-priests.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"></a><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/prayer-priests.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">PRAYER FOR PRIESTS AND THOSE DESTINED FOR THE PRIESTHOOD WITH CONSECRATION TO THE PRECIOUS BLOOD</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/special.htm#SHEPHERDS" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">PRAYER FOR THOSE IN OUR CHARGE, TO BE SAID BY PRIESTS AND BISHOPS</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/precious-blood24.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ST. TERESA OF AVILA'S PRAYER FOR PRIESTS</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Passion/lent4.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"></a><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/pb-chaplets.htm#1" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">THE CHAPLET OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD 1</a></span><br />
<a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/pb-chaplets.htm#2" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">THE CHAPLET OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD 2</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/holy-wounds.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ROSARY OF THE HOLY WOUNDS</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Gertrude/sg-chaplet.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">ST. GERTRUDE THE GREAT CHAPLET</a><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Saints/sg-chaplet.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><br /></a><big style="background-color: white; color: #006600; text-align: center;"><big><br /></big></big><big style="background-color: white; color: #006600; text-align: center;"><big><small><small></small></small></big></big><big style="background-color: white; color: #006600; text-align: center;"><big><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6523061687232266680" name="CONSECRATIONS"></a><small><span style="text-decoration: underline;">CONSECRATIONS</span></small></big></big></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/morning-offering2.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">CONSECRATION TO THE PRECIOUS BLOOD 1</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Two-Hearts/sacred-heart9.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">THREE ACTS OF CONSECRATION TO THE PRECIOUS BLOOD</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><big style="background-color: white; color: #006600; text-align: center;"><big><br /></big></big><big style="background-color: white; color: #006600; text-align: center;"><big><small><small></small></small></big></big><big style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><big><span style="color: #006600;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6523061687232266680" name="CONVERSION"></a></span><small style="color: #006600;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">CONVERSION AND MERCY, SEE ALSO LITANIES</span></small><br /><span style="color: #660000;"><small><small><br /></small></small></span></big></big></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><big style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><big><span style="color: #660000;"><small><small><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/miracle.htm">THE MIRACLE PRAYER</a></small></small><small><small><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/precious-blood1.htm">CONVERSION OR RETURN TO THE FAITH</a></small></small></span></big></big><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: #660000;"><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/novena-grace.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER FOR THE CONVERSION OF INFIDELS</a><br style="background-color: white; text-align: center;" /><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Angels/guardians-text.htm#EXORCISM" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">EXORCISM PRAYER OF POPE LEO XIII</a><br style="background-color: white; text-align: center;" /><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/precious-blood9.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">APPEAL TO ST. JOSEPH</a><br style="background-color: white; text-align: center;" /><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/divine-mercy5.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">THE HOUR OF MERCY</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><big style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><big><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></big></big><big style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><big><span style="color: #006600;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6523061687232266680" name="EUCHARISTIC"></a></span><small style="color: #006600;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">EUCHARISTIC</span></small><br /><span style="color: #660000;"><small><small><br /></small></small></span></big></big></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><big style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><big><span style="color: #660000;"><small><small><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/jesus-forsaken.htm">TO JESUS FORSAKEN</a></small></small><br /><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Two-Hearts/sacred-heart6a.htm"><small><small>ASPIRATION TO BE SAID AT THE ELEVATION OF THE CHALICE</small></small></a><br /><small><small><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/precious-blood25.htm">SPIRITUAL COMMUNION AND A VISIT TO THE BLESSED SACRAMENT</a></small></small></span></big></big><big style="background-color: white; color: #006600; text-align: center;"><big><small><small></small></small></big></big><big style="background-color: white; color: #006600; text-align: center;"><big><small><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6523061687232266680" name="LITANIES"></a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></small></big></big></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Litanies/litany3.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">THE LITANY OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD VERSION 1</a><br style="background-color: white; text-align: center;" /><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Litanies/litany3-2.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">THE LITANY OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD VERSION 2</a><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"></span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: center;" /><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/amendment3.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">THE PENITENT'S LITANY</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/precious-blood18.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">BLOOD OF JESUS, HELP ME!</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Gertrude/sg-text1.htm#SOULS" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">PRAYER TO FREE 1000 SOULS FROM PURGATORY: PROMISE PRAYER</a><br style="background-color: white; text-align: center;" /><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/precious-blood2.htm#1" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">H</a><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/precious-blood2.htm#1" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">EROIC ACT OF LOVE</a><br style="background-color: white; text-align: center;" /><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/precious-blood2.htm#2" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">PRAYER FOR THE DYING</a><big style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><br /><small><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Passion/passion-prayers6.htm#DEATH"></a></small></big><big style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><small><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/pb-prayers.htm#DEATH">PRAYER FOR A HAPPY DEATH</a><br /><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/pb-prayers.htm#REMEMBER">REMEMBER, O BELOVED JESUS</a></small></big><br style="background-color: white; text-align: center;" /><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Classics/souls9-4.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">SHORT PRAYER FOR THE HOLY SOULS TO MARY, INVOKING THE PRECIOUS BLOOD</a><br style="background-color: white; text-align: center;" /><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/precious-blood4.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">ONE WEEK NOVENA TO THE PRECIOUS BLOOD FOR THE HOLY SOULS</a><br style="background-color: white; text-align: center;" /><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/precious-blood5.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">MOST LOVING JESUS</a><br style="background-color: white; text-align: center;" /><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/precious-blood6.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">OUR LADY OF INTERCESSION</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><big style="background-color: white; color: #006600; text-align: center;"><big><br /></big></big><big style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><big><small style="color: #006600;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6523061687232266680" name="NOVENAS"></a><span style="text-decoration: underline;">NOVENAS, SEE ALSO HOLY SOULS AND OUR LADY OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD</span></small><br /><small><span style="color: #660000;"><small><br /></small></span></small></big></big></span><br />
<big style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><big><small><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit;"><small><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/precious-blood10.htm"><span style="font-size: small;">NOVENA TO THE HOLY GHOST</span></a></small><br /><small><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/precious-blood14.htm"><span style="font-size: small;">NOVENA TO THE PRECIOUS BLOOD</span></a></small></span></small></big></big><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/precious-blood30.htm"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit;">HOW TO OFFER THE PRECIOUS BLOOD TO THE ETERNAL FATHER</span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><big style="background-color: white; color: #006600; text-align: center;"><big><br /></big></big><big style="background-color: white; color: #006600; text-align: center;"><big><small><small></small></small></big></big><big style="background-color: white; color: #006600; text-align: center;"><big><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6523061687232266680" name="MARY"></a><small><span style="text-decoration: underline;">OUR LADY OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD</span></small></big></big></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Two-Hearts/immaculate-heart3.htm" style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">MEMORARE TO OUR LADY OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD</a><br style="background-color: white; text-align: center;" /><big style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/precious-blood11.htm"><small>PRAYER TO THE PRECIOUS BLOOD INVOKING THE HELP OF MARY</small></a><small><br /></small></big></span><big style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><big><small><small><span style="color: #660000;"><a href="http://www.catholictradition.org/Christ/precious-blood12.htm">NOVENA TO THE PRECIOUS BLOOD, INVOKING THE HELP OF MARY</a></span></small></small></big></big></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #660000; font-family: inherit;">The author is a research associate of the Fowler Museum of Cultural History at the University of California and his approach is purely scientific. <span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about the phenomenon and offers only scientific explanation for the origins of the vampire legend. If you are looking to explain away this supernatural phenomenon as an exercise in social anthropology or forensic pathology, <i>eg</i> as a cultural abberation, this is the book for you. If you want to learn about the vampire as a demonic manifestation of supernatural evil, it is not. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #660000; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Paul Barber subtitles his book "Folklore and Reality," but it is his reality and he does not entertain any belief in vampires or, I daresay, much else considered supernatural. The book is well researched, however, and cites plenty of cases which, if you are not already familiar with them, will make it an engrossing, albeit dry, read. I found it somewhat boring and tiresome, probably because I am more than acquainted with all with the book's material. To those who collect folklore books of this nature, I would probably recommend it. Those wanting to learn about vampires and vampirism, however, should look elsewhere. <i>Vampires, Burial and Death</i> is a relatively light read which attempts to succinctly explain away vampires by relegating them to the status of a superstition and natural causes. The author is more interested in decomposition than demons, and is a million light years from such exemplary works as <i>The Vampire: His Kith & Kin</i> (1928) and <i>The Vampire in Europe</i> (1929) by Montague Summers who approaches the subject with scholarship, passion and a perspective very much akin to my own.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit;">Today is the feast of the Holy Guardian Angels. Paul V was the first Pope, in 1608, to authorise a feast day in honour of guardian angels. Pope Clement X changed the date to October 2nd and Leo XIII, in 1883, upgraded the date to a double major feast. There is a proper Office in the Roman Breviary and a proper Mass in the Roman Missal, which contains all the apposite extracts from Sacred Scripture bearing on the three-fold office of the angels, to praise God, to act as His messengers, and to watch over mortal men. "Let us praise the Lord whom the Angels praise, whom the Cherubim and Seraphim proclaim Holy, Holy, Holy" (second antiphon of Lauds). <em>"Behold I will send my angel, who shall go before thee, and keep thee in thy journey, and bring thee into the place that I have prepared. Take notice of him, and hear his voice"</em> (Exodus 23; capitulum ad Laudes). The Gospel of the Mass includes that pointed text from St Matthew 18: 10: <em>"See that you despise not one of these little ones: for I say to you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven."</em> Although October 2nd has been fixed for this feast in the Roman calendar, it is kept, by papal privilege, in Germany and many other places on the first Sunday (computed ecclesiastically) of September, and is celebrated with special solemnity and generally with an octave (Nilles, II, 503). This feast, like many others, was local before it was placed in the Roman calendar. It was not one of the feasts retained in the Pian breviary, published in 1568; but among the earliest petitions from particular churches to be allowed, as a supplement to this breviary, the canonical celebration of local feasts, was a request from Cordova in 1579 for permission to have a feast in honour of the Guardian Angels. (Bäumer, <em>Histoire du Breviaire</em>, II, 233.) Bäumer, who makes this statement on the authority of original documents published by Dr. Schmid (in the <em>Tübinger Quartalschrift</em>, 1884), adds on the same authority that <em>"Toledo sent to Rome a rich proprium and received the desired authorisation for all the Offices contained in it, Valencia also obtained the approbation in February, 1582, for special Offices of the Blood of Christ and the Guardian Angels."</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">St Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face was buried in the Lisieux municipal cemetery on 4 October 1897. She was the first to be buried in the new plot her monastery had purchased in response to the city's new legislative directives prohibiting interment inside the cloister. In view of what took place after St Thérèse's death, it can now be said that the new directives were providential, since they enabled hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to visit her grave over a period of twenty-five years. Had St Thérèse been buried inside the cloister, this would never have been possible. Only in 1923 on the occasion of her beatification were her mortal remains transferred to the Carmelite chapel where they are kept to this day.</span></div>
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St Thérèse of Lisieux (2 January 1873 – 30 September 1897), or St Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin, was a French Carmelite nun. She is also known as "The Little Flower of Jesus."</div>
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St Thérèse loved the priesthood and consecrated herself for priests, calling herself <em>"an apostle to apostles."</em> She did not pray for priests for their sake only, but out of love for the souls they were to serve. She prayed for the priest in solidarity with Jesus in the Eucharist, with Mary, with the Church, and with the world, and offered her life for their apostolic ministry.</div>
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She felt an early call to religious life, and, overcoming various obstacles, in 1888 at the early age of fifteen, became a nun and joined two of her older sisters in the enclosed Carmelite community of Lisieux, Normandy. After nine years as a Carmelite religious, having fulfilled various offices, such as sacristan and novice mistress, and having spent the last eighteen months in Carmel in a night of faith, she died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four. The impact of her posthumous publications, including her memoir <em>The Story of a Soul</em>, made her one of the greatest saints of the 20th century. Pope Pius XI called her the Star of his pontificate; she was beatified in 1923, and canonised in 1925. Thérèse was declared co-patron of the missions with Francis Xavier in 1927, and named co-patron of France with St. Joan of Arc in 1944. On 19 October 1997 Pope John Paul II declared her the thirty-third Doctor of the Church, the only Doctor of his long pontificate, the youngest of all Doctors of the Church, only the third woman Doctor. </div>
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Devotion to Saint Thérèse has developed around the world and she was my own mother's favourite saint. My mother died the day following the feast of St Thérèse. The depth and novelty of Thérèse's spirituality, of which she said <em>"my way is all confidence and love,"</em> has inspired many believers. In the face of her littleness and nothingness, she trusted in God to be her sanctity. She wanted to go to Heaven by an entirely new little way. <em>"I wanted to find an elevator that would raise me to Jesus."</em> The elevator, she wrote, would be the arms of Jesus lifting her in all her littleness.</div>
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Daniel, when he asks God to permit the Jews to return to Jerusalem: "The Angel
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Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me . . . and none is my helper
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">(2) Daniel 12, the Angel speaking of the
end of the world and the Antichrist says: "At that time shall Michael rise up,
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">(3) In the Catholic Epistle of Saint
Jude: "When Michael the Archangel, disputing with the devil, contended about the
body of Moses", etc. Saint Jude alludes to an ancient Jewish tradition of a
dispute between Michael and Satan over the body of Moses, an account of which is
also found in the apocryphal book on the assumption of Moses (Origen, De
Principiis III.2.2). Saint Michael concealed the tomb of Moses. Satan, however,
by disclosing it, tried to seduce the Jewish people to the sin of hero-worship.
Saint Michael also guards the body of Eve, according to the "Revelation of
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">(4) Apocalypse 12: 7, "And there was a
great battle in heaven, Michael and his angels fought with the dragon." Saint
John speaks of the great conflict at the end of time, which reflects also the
battle in heaven at the beginning of time. According to the Fathers there is
often a question of Saint Michael in Scripture where his name is not mentioned.
They say he was the cherub who stood at the gate of paradise, "to keep the way
of the tree of life" (Genesis 3: 24), the angel through whom God published the
Decalogue to his chosen people, the angel who stood in the way against Balaam
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the power of the enemy, especially at the hour of
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Jews in the Old Law, the Christians in the New Testament; therefore he was the
patron of the Church, and of the orders of knights during the Middle
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">To call away from earth and bring men's
souls to judgment (<i>"signifer S. Michael repraesentet eas in lucam sanctam,"</i>
Offert. Miss Defunct. <i>"Constituit eum principem super animas suscipiendas,"</i> Antiph. off. Cf. The Shepherd of Hermas, Book III, Similitude 8, Chapter
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For the past thirteen years I have been reducing my appearances and have purposely not released any new material of a literary nature with view to entering a more private existence. I have always been a private person at heart, but events throughout my life have conspired to prevent this and thwarted any attempt to be private.</div>
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What most brought me to public attention were the television and radio programmes I regularly appeared on and also the books and documentary films associated with topics which hold the public imagination in thrall. It is for that reason I have not submitted a book for publication since the beginning of the 21st century. Likewise, I have scaled back my broadcasts in the media to a point where I no longer make them. I ceased giving interviews to the print media decades ago and only then in quality magazines. Moreover, it will soon be three years since I declared I am no longer prepared to provide interviews on the Highgate case. What there was to say has already been said many times over. I found myself answering the same questions again and again; questions which frequently already have the answers provided in my published account.<br />
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I am still having to regularly turn down television and radio interview requests, along with a plethora of other invitations to partake in projects which would maintain this perception of me being a public figure, which, I accept, is exactly what I have been for the majority of my life. Yet what made me so is now in the past.</div>
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The concomitants of being a public figure have slowly eroded over the last thirteen years to a point where I stand at the threshhold of finally achieving meaningful privacy. Hence, in three months I shall step over that threshhold and become a private person. This will not affect my episcopal duties, sacerdotal ministry, art and music <i>etc</i>, but any involvement in secular preoccupations and the expression of views on same in the public hemisphere shall altogether cease.</div>
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I will continue to address questions on this blog for just three more months. Thus, if there is a anything you wished you had asked, but have so far not done so, you have until the feast of Saint Lucia 2013.<br />
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†Seán Manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16983238870262737975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523061687232266680.post-17514566921150999272013-08-26T04:33:00.001-07:002013-08-26T04:39:20.061-07:00Paulo Coelho<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: xx-small;">.</span><br />
<b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Dear Bishop,</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I have recently come across the books of Brasilian
bestselling author Paulo Coelho. Although I enjoyed his story of the pilgrimage
to Santiago de Compostella, recently an elderly priest has advised me against
reading anymore from Coelho, stating he was only outwardly a traditional
Catholic and in reality an occultist and a (perhaps even black) magician. Given
the fact that Coelho is apparently one of the most successful authors of the
present I would very much appreciate your opinion regarding his work. Thank
you.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Sincerely,</span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #660000; font-family: inherit;">Paulo Coelho was born in Rio in August 1947; <i>"I am 100 per cent Virgo,"</i> he says, <i>"stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world."</i> His father was an engineer, and expected his son to follow in his footsteps. His mother was a devout Catholic, and sent her son to a Jesuit school. They took a dim view of his desire to write, and an even dimmer one when he took to declaiming his poetry on the beaches amid Rio's proto-Beats. They sent him to a mental institution where he received electroshock therapy. In the late 1960s, he became a fully-fledged member of the Brazilian underground, growing hippy hair, doing drugs, and devouring the writings of the occultist Aleister Crowley. He met a singer called Raul Seixas and began writing lyrics for him. Seixas became a huge star, and one of his and Coelho's biggest hits was called Sociedade Alternativa; soon, kids all over Brazil were singing its catchy refrain – <i>"Do what you want / Because it's the whole of the law / Long live the Alternative Society / The number 666 is Aleister Crowley."</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #660000; font-family: inherit;"><i>"I've presided over a few black masses in my time, sure,"</i> grins Coelho. <i>"I wouldn't recommend it necessarily, but every young person should allow the flame of rebellion to manifest in some way, because if you don't see the other side of the coin, you are just a sheep. You'll have some risky experiences, but everyone knows his or her limits, I believe."</i> (This train of thought naturally brings him to Amy Winehouse: <i>"I love her,"</i> he declares. <i>"She doesn't seem like the happiest person on earth, and I guess she will either die or she will survive, but I believe it will be the latter; she has a talent to nurture."</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/donotmigrate/3562310/Paulo-Coelho-Ive-presided-over-a-few-black-masses-in-my-time.html"><span style="color: #660000;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/donotmigrate/3562310/Paulo-Coelho-Ive-presided-over-a-few-black-masses-in-my-time.html</span></a></span></div>
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<i><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">You will know them by their fruit</span><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></b></i><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #990000;"> (Matthew 7: 16) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #660000;">It really is that simple.</span></div>
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†Seán Manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16983238870262737975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523061687232266680.post-53330321699385587722013-08-26T01:45:00.000-07:002013-08-26T04:51:28.182-07:00Sacred Scriptures<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: xx-small;">.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;">Hello Bishop, I would like to ask you if you think it would be fine for a Catholic to own and read protestant translations of the Bible such as the King James Version and the New International Version? Also, do you think it would be permitted for a Catholic to own writings from other religions such as the Quran and the Book of Mormon? </span></span>—<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;">Ruben H.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff3db; color: #804000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #660000; font-family: inherit;">I have in my library all manner of reading material which I do not subscribe to as a Christian, and the sole reason they are in my possession is for reference. Therefore, from an academic and scholarly perspective, I find no objection in the possession of such material unless you are at definite risk of being influenced by it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit;">It rather depends on the reason why you possess writings from other religions and scriptural translations other than the </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: left;">Bible published in accordance with the prescriptions of</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; text-align: left;">Catholic canon law</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: left;">, which states:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><i>Books of the sacred scriptures cannot be published unless the Apostolic See or the conference of bishops has approved them. For the publication of their translations into the vernacular, it is also required that they be approved by the same authority and provided with necessary and sufficient annotations.</i></span><i> </i></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><i>With the permission of the conference of bishops, Catholic members of the Christian faithful in collaboration with separated brothers and sisters can prepare and publish translations of the sacred scriptures provided with appropriate annotations.</i></span></div>
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">DRB</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douay-Rheims_Bible" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Douay-Rheims Bible"><span style="color: #660000;">Douay-Rheims Bible</span></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">1582–1609</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">DRC</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douay-Rheims_Bible#Challoner_Revision" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Douay-Rheims Bible"><span style="color: #660000;">Douay-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision</span></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">1752</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">WVSS</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Westminster_Version_of_the_Sacred_Scriptures&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Westminster Version of the Sacred Scriptures (page does not exist)"><span style="color: #660000;">Westminster Version of the Sacred Scriptures</span></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">1913–1935</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">SPC</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spencer_New_Testament&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Spencer New Testament (page does not exist)"><span style="color: #660000;">Spencer New Testament</span></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">1941</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">CCD</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confraternity_Bible" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Confraternity Bible"><span style="color: #660000;">Confraternity Bible</span></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">1941</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">Knox</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knox%27s_Translation_of_the_Vulgate" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Knox's Translation of the Vulgate"><span style="color: #660000;">Knox's Translation of the Vulgate</span></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">1955</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">KLNT</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a class="new" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kleist-Lilly_New_Testament&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Kleist-Lilly New Testament (page does not exist)"><span style="color: #660000;">Kleist-Lilly New Testament</span></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">1956</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">JB</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Bible" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Jerusalem Bible"><span style="color: #660000;">Jerusalem Bible</span></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">1966</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">RSV-CE</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Standard_Version_Catholic_Edition" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition"><span style="color: #660000;">Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</span></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">1965–66</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">NAB</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_American_Bible" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="New American Bible"><span style="color: #660000;">New American Bible</span></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">1970</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">NJB</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jerusalem_Bible" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="New Jerusalem Bible"><span style="color: #660000;">New Jerusalem Bible</span></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">1985</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">CCB</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Community_Bible" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Christian Community Bible"><span style="color: #660000;">Christian Community Bible</span></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">1986</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">NRSV-CE</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Revised_Standard_Version_Catholic_Edition" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition"><span style="color: #660000;">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</span></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">1989</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">RSV-2CE</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Standard_Version_Catholic_Edition#Second_Edition" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition"><span style="color: #660000;">Revised Standard Version - Second Catholic Edition</span></a> (Ignatius Version)</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">2006</span></td></tr>
<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">NABRE</span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_American_Bible_Revised_Edition" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="New American Bible Revised Edition"><span style="color: #660000;">New American Bible Revised Edition</span></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"><span style="color: #660000;">2011/1986 (<span style="color: #660000;">Old Testament and Psalms)/New Testament</span>)</span></td></tr>
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†Seán Manchesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16983238870262737975noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6523061687232266680.post-20708588710341188692013-08-21T00:01:00.002-07:002013-08-21T00:55:59.861-07:00St Pius X<span style="color: #f9cb9c; font-size: xx-small;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pius X's feast day was assigned in 1955 to September 3rd. It remained thus for fifteen years. In the 1960 calendar the rank was changed to Third-Class Feast, and in the General Roman Calendar since 1969 it became that of Memorial and the feast day is obligatorily celebrated on August 21st (today). Traditionalists, however, like myself celebrate the feast of Pius X - for whom I have great affection - on September 3rd.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Pius X (2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914) rejected modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine, promoting traditional devotional practices and orthodox theology. He was the first pope since Pius V (1566 – 1572) to be canonised. The silver altar at my private retreat (see below) contains relics (<i>ex ossibus</i>) of St Pius X.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">In
1913, Pius X suffered a heart attack, and subsequently lived in the shadow of
poor health. In 1914, the Pope fell ill on the Feast of the </span>Assumption of
Mary<span style="line-height: 19px;"> (15 August), an illness from which he would
not recover. His condition was worsened by the events leading to the outbreak of
World War I (1914–1918), which reportedly sent the 79-year-old Pope into a state
of melancholy. He died on 20 August 1914 of a heart attack. Following
his death, Pius X was buried in a simple and unadorned tomb in the crypt below St Peter's Basilica.
Papal physicians had been in the habit of removing organs to aid the embalming
process. Pius X expressly prohibited this in his burial and successive popes
have continued this tradition. Although
Pius X's canonisation took place in 1954, the events leading up to it began
immediately with his death.</span></span><br />
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X's feast day was assigned in 1955 to September 3rd, to be celebrated as a
Double. It remained thus for fifteen years. In the 1960 calendar (incorporated
in the 1962 Roman Missal of Pope John XXIII,
whose continued use as an extraordinary form of the Roman Rite is authorised under the conditions indicated
in the motu proprio </span><i style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">Summorum
Pontificum</i><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">)
the rank was changed to Third Class Feast. The rank in the General Roman
Calendar since 1969 is that of Memorial and the feast day is obligatorily celebrated
on August 21st, closer to the day of his death (August 20th, impeded by the
feast day of St Bernard).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">Devotion
to Pius X between the two world
wars remained high. On 14 February
1923, in honour of the twentieth anniversary of his accession to the papacy, the first
moves toward his canonisation began with the formal appointment of those
who would carry out his cause. The event was marked by the erecting of a
monument in his memory in St Peter's
Basilica. On 19 August 1939, Pope Pius
XII (1939–1958) delivered a tribute to
Pius X at Castel Gandolfo. On 12
February 1943, a further development of Pius X's cause was achieved, when he was
declared to have displayed heroic
virtues, gaining therefore the title </span><i style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">Venerable.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">On
19 May 1944, Pius X's coffin was exhumed and was taken to the Chapel of the Holy
Crucifix in St. Peter's Basilica for the canonical examination. Upon opening the
coffin, the examiners found the body of Pius X remarkably well preserved,
despite the fact that he had died thirty years before and had made wishes not to be
embalmed. According to Jerome Dai-Gal, </span><i style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">"all of the body"</i><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"> of Pius X </span><i style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">"was in an
excellent state of conservation."</i><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"> After the examination and the end of the
apostolic process towards Pius X's cause, Pius XII bestowed the title of </span><i style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">Venerable Servant of God</i><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"> upon Pius X. His body was
exposed for forty-five days, before
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="line-height: 19px;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit;">The process towards beatification then began, and thus investigations by the Sacred Congregation of Rites (SCR) into miracles performed by intercessory work of Pius X
subsequently took place. The SCR would eventually recognise two miracles. The
first involved Sr. Marie-Françoise Deperras, a nun who had bone cancer and was cured on 7 December 1928 during
a novena in which a relic of Pius X was placed on her
chest. The second involved Sr Benedetta De Maria, who had cancer, and in a
novena started in 1938, she eventually touched a relic statue of Pius X and was
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Pius XII officially approved the two
miracles on 11 February 1951, and on 4 March 1951. Pius XII, in his <i>De Tuto</i>, declared that the Church
could continue in the beatification of the Venerable Pope Pius X. His
beatification took place on 3 June 1951 at St Peter's before 23 cardinals,
hundreds of bishops and archbishops, and a crowd of 100,000 faithful. During his
beatification decree, Pius XII referred to Pius X as "Pope of the Eucharist," in
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his beatification, on 17 February 1952, Pius X's body was transferred from its
tomb to the Vatican basilica and placed under the altar of the chapel of the
Presentation. The pontiff's body lies within a glass and bronze-work sarcophagus
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canonised, following the SCR's recognition of two more miracles. The first
involved Francesco Belsami, an attorney from Naples who had a fatal pulmonary abscess, who was cured upon placing a
picture of Pope Pius X upon his chest. The second miracle involved Sr Maria
Ludovica Scorcia, a nun who was afflicted with a serious neurotropic virus, and who, upon several novenas, was
entirely cured. The canonisation Mass was presided over by Pope Pius XII before a crowd of approximately 800,000 of the faithful and church officials at St Peter's Basilica. Pius X became the first pope to be canonised since Pius V being canonised in
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;">Dear Bishop Manchester,</span><br style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;">I have read your comments on my blog, and a commentator suggested I post here, to ask if you think the blog is a useful record of someone who was involved in a satanic version of Fascism, but is now claiming to be trying to overcome hate and embrace Christ? Shouldn't we as Christians be reaching out to such individuals? Perhaps even David Farrant might one day knock Wicca/Witchcraft on the head and find Christ, so we can never write anyone off, and we shouldn't judge.</span><br style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;">As for being a "resource," I for one was surprised to discover reading another article on the blog that Aleister Crowley, the notorious self-proclaimed "Great Beast 666," was a proto-Fascist, racist and anti-Semite. If this was more widely known perhaps less impressionable youngsters would laud the long dead Crowley.</span><br style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;">Your sincerely,</span><br style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;">Adrian</span><br style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;">An Anglican</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Your blog states that it is dedicated to promoting the creed of National
Gnosticism and the doctrine of Social Darwinism in its <i>"eternal struggle for
Survival of the Fittest."</i> Aleister Crowley also features heavily on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Its <i>"recommended reading list,"</i> amongst a plethora of titles
promoting Fascism, Black Magic and Satanism, includes two of my own books. These
are not as random as at first they might appear. One is about an investigation
into the malign supernatural while the other warns against the dark occult. Both
books are justifiably critical of David Farrant. My name, as the author, is
naturally also included. This might suggest your blog supports me when,
in fact, it does not. There is much on it defaming me which naturally required some refutation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What might possibly be your final blog entry was published on
21 July 2013, stating that your blog </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">"is now disbanded and the previously listed
contact email address of the Order is no longer in use. In any case our circle
of supporters never amounted to more than a handful of individuals. This blog is
now suspended and will not be updated. Previous posts will be maintained as a
historical archive and resource for researchers."</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Facts regarding Aleister Crowley about which you
remark are widely available elsewhere, but what your blog does provide, apart
from misinformation and falsehood gleaned from my detractors about me, is an
incredible catalogue of Left-hand Path occult and Fascist literature with links
to ultra-extremist websites. Needless to say, you advertise a number of self-published
items originating with Mr Farrant whom, I agree, we should not </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">"write off."</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> I
have offered to meet this man privately on innumerable occasions with view to helping him and also putting an end to his exceptional hostility. He has always
declined. Incidentally, David Farrant, according to his own
published statements on the matter, ceased to be a "wiccan/witch" in 1982. I cannot vouchsafe what he is today or ever was prior to that time, but I doubt it had much to do with "wicca."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nobody is beyond redemption, including yourself, and I would
not judge nor rule out the possibility of any person being helped to turn from their own shadow to the Light, but I am obliged to condemn behaviour which is morally
reprehensible, degenerate and harmful. On balance, therefore, I do not find your
blog a useful record, as it overwhelmingly offers contact with the very things
of darkness you now claim to eschew.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background-color: #fff3db;">Bishop Manchester</span><br style="background-color: #fff3db;" /><br style="background-color: #fff3db;" /><span style="background-color: #fff3db;">Your Grace, kindly consider the matter of "quack" faith healer john of god of Brazil. Recently there are reports that he has been honoured and recognized by the Catholic Church including Papal titles.</span><br style="background-color: #fff3db;" /><br /><span style="background-color: #fff3db;">These reports and documents are being used to influence, promote and crassly advertise this necromancer to believing Catholics. People are now claiming john of god's "work" is sanctioned by the Pope. Also, who is this Bishop Bertone and Sodano? Are they actually aware of what is being done in their name? And do they condone it?</span><br style="background-color: #fff3db;" /><span style="background-color: #fff3db;"><br /></span></b></span></div>
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Evasio Bertone</span><span style="line-height: 19px;">, </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesians_of_Don_Bosco" style="background-image: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Salesians of Don Bosco"><span style="color: maroon;">S.D.B.</span></a><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"> (born 2 December 1934) is an Italian </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelate" style="background-image: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Prelate"><span style="color: maroon;">prelate</span></a><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"> and a Vatican diplomat. A </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)" style="background-image: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Cardinal (Catholicism)"><span style="color: maroon;">cardinal</span></a><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"> of the Roman Catholic Church, he currently serves as </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_Secretary_of_State" style="background-image: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Cardinal Secretary of State"><span style="color: maroon;">Cardinal Secretary of State</span></a><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit;">. <span style="line-height: 24px;">The document that honours </span><span style="line-height: 19px;">João Teixeira de Faria (<i>aka</i> </span><span style="line-height: 19px;">João de Deus</span><span style="line-height: 19px;">)</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> as a
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<span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">Cardinal Bertone has
been accused of lying about the content of the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Secret_of_Fatima" style="background-image: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Third Secret of Fatima"><span style="color: maroon;">Third Secret of Fatima</span></a><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"> in his book, </span><i style="line-height: 19px;">The
Last Secret of Fatima</i><span style="line-height: 19px;">,</span><span style="line-height: 19px;"> and also in televised appearances.</span><span style="line-height: 19px;"> After Bertone's book was published, Italian
journalist </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Socci" style="background-image: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Antonio Socci"><span style="color: maroon;">Antonio Socci</span></a><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"> published an article entitled, </span><i style="line-height: 19px;">Dear Cardinal Bertone: Who—between you and me—is
Deliberately Lying?</i><span style="line-height: 19px;"> Catholic attorney
Christopher Ferrara wrote an entire book called </span><i style="line-height: 19px;">The Secret Still Hidden</i><span style="line-height: 19px;"> aimed at exposing and debunking the claims of
Cardinal Bertone with respect to Fatima.</span><span style="line-height: 19px;"> The book contains an appendix entitled, </span><i style="line-height: 19px;">101 Grounds for Doubting Cardinal Bertone's
Account</i><span style="line-height: 19px;">. In particular, it is claimed that Bertone engaged in a
systematic deception along with </span></span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_Sodano" style="background-image: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Cardinal Sodano"><span style="color: maroon;">Cardinal
Sodano</span></a><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"> and </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_Ratzinger" style="background-image: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Cardinal Ratzinger"><span style="color: maroon;">Cardinal Ratzinger</span></a><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"> to cover-up the existence of a one-page document containing the
words </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BAcia_Santos" style="background-image: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Lúcia Santos"><span style="color: maroon;">Lúcia Santos</span></a><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"> said were relayed to her in a vision of the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blessed_Virgin_Mary" style="background-image: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Blessed Virgin Mary"><span style="color: maroon;">Blessed Virgin Mary</span></a><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">, which some, including myself, believe contains information about
the Apocalypse and a great </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy" style="background-image: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Apostasy"><span style="color: maroon;">apostasy</span></a><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Angelo
Sodan</span><span style="line-height: 19px;">o</span><span style="line-height: 19px;"> (born 23 November 1927) is an
Italian </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)" style="background-image: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Cardinal (Catholicism)"><span style="color: maroon;">Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church</span></a><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"> who has been </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_of_the_College_of_Cardinals" style="background-image: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Dean of the College of Cardinals"><span style="color: maroon;">Dean of the College of Cardinals</span></a><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"> since 2005. He was </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_Secretary_of_State" style="background-image: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Cardinal Secretary of State"><span style="color: maroon;">Cardinal Secretary of State</span></a><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"> from 1990 to 2006, under both
popes </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" style="background-image: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Pope John Paul II"><span style="color: maroon;">John
Paul II</span></a><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI" style="background-image: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Pope Benedict XVI"><span style="color: maroon;">Benedict XVI</span></a><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;">. On 27 April 2005, he was elected to succeed Benedict XVI as Dean
of the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_Cardinals" style="background-image: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="College of Cardinals"><span style="color: maroon;">College of Cardinals</span></a><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px;"> by his fellow </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholicism)" style="background-image: none; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none;" title="Cardinal (Catholicism)"><span style="color: maroon;">Cardinal Bishops</span></a><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">. </span><span style="text-indent: 4px;">Hans Kung received warm praise from Cardinal Sodano when he remarked on <i>"his beautiful
pages."</i> This from a prominent Catholic theologian who denies the divinity of
Jesus Christ, doubts some of the Gospel parables, and the Resurrection. He even
doubts the historical founding of the Roman Catholic Church.</span><span style="line-height: 20px;">Cardinal Sodano has an exceptionally sinister record
of shielding abusers, particularly eminent ones, which goes back many years. He
blocked a 1995 investigation into subsequently proven accusations of child
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: maroon;">João Teixeira de Faria (born 24 June
1942), known also as <em>João de Deus</em> ("John of God"), is a medium and
according to himself, a psychic surgeon in Brazil. He is based in Abadiânia, a
small town in the state of Goiás, southwest of Brasília. João is not a licensed
doctor. He is said to have been so rebellious he was thrown out of school after
the second grade and could not keep a job. At sixteen it is claimed the "entity"
of King Solomon entered his body, and performed a miraculous healing. For years,
João wandered Brazil offering healings. Three decades ago, he took residence in
his casa in the plateaus and became known as "John of
God."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit;">Some people say the healings are just a front - a way to make
"John of God" rich. Even though he charges no fee for treatment, João appears to
be a wealthy man. He owns a cattle ranch not far from where he sees patients. It
comprises more than 1,000 acres. When it was pointed out to João that his town
has become a tourist beacon with thousands coming to spend money for herbs and
other items, he looked hurt. His eyes turned red and watered. He said he has
money but he spends it to pay for food and education for the poor. </span><em style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit;">"I have
cattle, but that's not enough to keep the casa,"</em><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit;"> he said. Yet there are
rumours that "John of God" has a much darker side. Juliana Almeida Franca, a
district attorney who has investigated "John of God," says he sent her death
threats - delivered by a relative. João denies this. João has also been accused
of taking advantage of a woman who came to be healed. He insisted his healings
are legitimate. </span><em style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit;">"You can fool the people for one to two years. But you
cannot fool people for 45 years,"</em><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit;"> he protests in his own defence. I do not
see in </span><em style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit;">João de Deus </em><span style="color: maroon; font-family: inherit;">a man of God, but rather someone who claims to
communicate with spirits of the dead and also someone claiming to be a so-called
"psychic surgeon." Such practices are obviously prohibited to Christians and
clearly invite charlatanry by those who adopt them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: maroon;">I do believe in </span><a href="http://www.holygrail-church.fsnet.co.uk/Divine%20Healing.htm"><span style="color: maroon;">Divine Healing</span></a><span style="color: maroon;"> where the
healing derives from God, but I do not believe João Teixeira de Faria is such a
healer. Far from it. He is a medium and as such his actions are utterly
condemned in scripture. Calling himself <em>"John of God,"</em> therefore,
is blasphemy. He does not represent God. He represents himself and such
"spirits" he evokes - assuming he communicates with external entities from the
spirit world at all - and these will be from an unknown source.<br /><br />Divine
healing should not be confused with “faith healing” or “spiritual healing.”
Divine healing is the effect of the Holy Spirit upon our natural beings. When
the sick, suffering and demon possessed touched Our Lord Jesus Christ, virtue
went out of Him - the power of the Holy Spirit flowed from the Saviour. Divine
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;">Greetings in Christ, </span><span style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;">Your Grace, I was just today made aware of the fact that human remains are being excavated in London in order to build a new railway. Here is the article:</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>The 118-kilometer (73-mile) Crossrail line is Britain's biggest construction project and the largest archaeological dig in London for decades. In the city's busy business core, archaeologists have struck pay dirt, uncovering everything from a chunk of Roman road to dozens of 2,000-year-old horseshoes, some golden 17th-century bling — and the bones of long-dead Londoners.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>One afternoon this week, archaeologists were unearthing newly discovered bones in a pit beside Liverpool Street rail and subway station, while living city-dwellers scuttled by, oblivious, a few feet away. The remains belong to a few of the 20,000 people interred in a burial ground established in the 16th century.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>"Everyone's been running around in Liverpool Street for years and not thinking that they've been walking around on bodies from one of the densest burial grounds in London," </i>said Nick Elsden, a Museum of London archaeologist helping to oversee excavations that go along with the work on the Crossrail line.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>The 2,000-year history of London goes deep — 5 to 6 meters (16 to 20 feet) deep, the distance between today's street level and sidewalks in Roman times. Crossrail is providing archaeologists with a chance to dig down through those centuries — and even beyond, to prehistoric times.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>"This site is a rare, perhaps unprecedented opportunity," </i>Elsden said as he watched museum staff gently brush dirt from newly found bones and a skull in a hole that will soon house a maintenance shaft.<i> </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>"This is a major roadway outside one of London's busiest railway stations. You don't get to dig that up normally."</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;">Something similar happened near my home, when a graveyard was dug-up in order to widen a road. </span><span style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;">What is His Grace's opinion on these matters? </span><span style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;">I thank His Grace for his time and consideration.</span><br style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;">In Christ,</span><br style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #fff3db; text-align: justify;">Theodore Conrath</span></b></span></span><br />
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I received a lovely long letter today from my dear friend Peter Underwood, much of it too personal to share, but the intriguing part I certainly can. The letter was accompanied by the latest Journal of the Society for Psychical Studies, of which Peter is Honorary President, a signed copy of his latest book, and something in a mysterious small box of some considerable age, which, after I opened it, quite took me aback. What I found inside is referred to in a chapter of the anthology Peter and I collaborated on four decades ago which emerged as <em>The Vampire's Bedside Companion</em> (1975). The chapter is titled "A Vampire Talisman."</div>
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The first edition of the 1975 anthology, in common with the second edition of <em>The Highgate Vampire</em>, is dedicated to the memory of Montague Summers followed in <em>The Vampire's Bedside Companion</em> by the inscription: <em>"in the hope that he will forgive me for revealing some of the secrets of the Vampire Medallion - and I shall not regret it."</em><br />
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I had been informed by Peter some time back that the medallion passed to him by Montague Summers would one day be mine and that he had made a provision in his Will to that effect. Clearly he now feels that any benefit afforded by this curious object should be in my possession during the darkening days ahead. I am both overwhelmed and grateful, as there remains much work to do in this fearful realm in the winter of my life.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Dear Bishop Manchester, you have always claimed that the Right Reverend Montague Summers has been a Bishop of the Old Catholic Church. I would like to know why in your opinion Wikipedia affirms that "He was never a member of any Catholic order or diocese. Whether he was ever actually ordained as a priest is a matter of dispute." I hope you will have the patience and the kindness to satisfy my curiosity. Thank you very much. Your friend — Alan (Italy).</strong></span><br />
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Summers grew up in a wealthy family living in Clifton, near Bristol. Religion always played a large part in his life. He was raised as an evangelical Anglican, but his love of ceremonial and sacraments drew him to Anglo-Catholicism. After graduating in Theology at Oxford he took the first steps towards holy orders at Lichfield Theological College and entered his apprenticeship as a curate in the diocese of Bitton near Bristol. A year or so later he converted to Roman Catholicism. He had been made a deacon within the Church of England in 1908, and was diaconated again within the Roman Catholic Church, but it was not until he embraced the Old Catholic Church that he was ordained into the priesthood in 1913. He celebrated Mass publicly when travelling abroad, but at home in England he only performed this sacrament in private. This was probably due to the fact that he was ordained into the priesthood outside the regular procedures of the Church. Old Catholic holy orders, albeit valid, are irregular in the eyes of Rome and Canterbury. <br />
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He was episcopally consecrated for the Order of Corporate Reunion on 21 June 1927 by Dominic Albert Godwin. He was later consecrated sub conditione on 21 March 1946 by Roger Stephen Matthews and appointed Nuncio for Great Britain. Like myself, he wrote books about demonology whilst placing significant emphasis on exorcism.<br />
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