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... girls . Father Gérard , priest of St. - Sauveur , was charged with saying a similar mass , at which he had debauched the girl serving as an altar . But only after torture was regularly applied did the accusations of black magic amount ...
... girls . Father Gérard , priest of St. - Sauveur , was charged with saying a similar mass , at which he had debauched the girl serving as an altar . But only after torture was regularly applied did the accusations of black magic amount ...
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... girl to fake fits and report she was cured by the in- tercession of the Virgin Mary . In this way , the priest's chapel at Aldington , Kent , would become a shrine , and “ pil- grimages being made to it , he might draw those advantages ...
... girl to fake fits and report she was cured by the in- tercession of the Virgin Mary . In this way , the priest's chapel at Aldington , Kent , would become a shrine , and “ pil- grimages being made to it , he might draw those advantages ...
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... girl allegedly pos- sessed by a devil . According to her mother , the girl had des fleurs blanches during menstruation . The doctors , however , ex- amined the discharges and found a viru- lent gonorrhea [ chaudepisse ] ; midwives found ...
... girl allegedly pos- sessed by a devil . According to her mother , the girl had des fleurs blanches during menstruation . The doctors , however , ex- amined the discharges and found a viru- lent gonorrhea [ chaudepisse ] ; midwives found ...
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