TRTR(1) Religious References in Chapter 1

[Michael Bailey]

Michael Bailey wrote:
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>> -- anyway, at his moment of greatest distress,
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> ie, Wyatt's
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>> was the invocation of
>> Saint Joseph of Copertino one of the things that turned the tide?
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anyway, that's what I'm going with...
seems like the cumulative disturbances of learning the history of
religion, and the ministrations of the experimenting doctors, have him
near death's door -

and invoking a saint who by all accounts had some kind of efficacious
power (which certainly was not by virtue of his knowledge of the
intricacies of Christian doctrine) inspired an attempt on his part to
rise, which was accompanied by such pain (as if nails were being
driven through his feet) as to wake him ---

(not to mention the possibility that Reverend Gwyon had efficaciously
called the demons into the ape, a la the Gadarene swine)

but anyway, something worked, something real among all the flummery
came to his aid