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To: don-o
Wonder if "The Grand Inquisitor" is on line?

Well, bless my soul, it is.

The Grand Inquisitor

"And behold, He deigned to appear for a moment to the people, to the tortured, suffering people, sunk in iniquity, but loving Him like children.

My story is laid in Spain, in Seville, in the most terrible time of the Inquisition, when fires were lighted every day to the glory of God, and 'in the splendid auto da fe the wicked heretics were burnt.'

Oh, of course, this was not the coming in which He will appear, according to His promise, at the end of time in all His heavenly glory, and which will be sudden 'as lightning flashing from east to west.' No, He visited His children only for a moment, and there where the flames were crackling round the heretics.

In His infinite mercy He came once more among men in that human shape in which He walked among men for thirty-three years fifteen centuries ago.

He came down to the 'hot pavements' of the southern town in which on the day before almost a hundred heretics had, ad majorem gloriam Dei, been burnt by the cardinal, the Grand Inquisitor, in a magnificent auto da fe, in the presence of the king, the court, the knights, the cardinals, the most charming ladies of the court, and the whole population of Seville.

445 posted on 07/02/2003 3:16:54 PM PDT by don-o
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To: don-o
See post number 17. Kinda interesting this coincidence...
448 posted on 07/02/2003 3:20:01 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: don-o
What utter rubbish.
449 posted on 07/02/2003 3:21:38 PM PDT by Hermann the Cherusker
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To: don-o; FormerLib; katnip
waste of a darn good name, if you ask me
452 posted on 07/02/2003 3:26:00 PM PDT by MarMema
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