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Since the topic of abbots, priors, monasteries, etc., has come up, may I
ask: was it usual for monks to boil their bishop in their crypt? Aren't
monasteries independent of the bishop? Shouldn't they have been boiling
their abbot (or if they were humble, their prior) instead?
Bernadette Filotas
>
> And "Relics", by Pip Vaughan-Hughes, which deals with the same trade and
> has
> a deeply appropriate denouement. And of course the four titles by Sylvian
> Hamilton, whose first ("The Bone Pedlar") begins: In the crypt of the
> monastery church the monks were boiling their bishop.
>
> It's the kind of occupation that is going to hold a horrid fascination for
> the modern mind, after all.
>
> Pat
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