Inquisitor Dreams

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Phyllis Ann Karr. Inquisitor Dreams

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Opening Quotation

“There can, indeed, be no doubt that, amid much greed and callous indifference to justice, there were men engaged in the service who deemed themselves to be doing the work of God and that their methods were merciful…the individuals were not necessarily as vicious as the system…”

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Neither recognizing this voice nor understanding its message, he ignored it and more or less accepted the apparitions as some miracle resembling that of bilocation. Was not the child still a holy saint, even though martyred by fellow Catholic Christians? The Ordinary went on, searching every aspect, “They thought to make a shroud, you say? A holy relic, like that of our Lord?”

“Their cloth was at first too large for the child. Half of it served to cover him. When they found him dead beneath it half an hour after they had laid him out, they tore away the part that was all bloody from his wounds, and left the clean second half over him, thinking to have their shroud more clearly imprinted when the miracle should come to pass on Holy Saturday night.”

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