In horsy communities, Anglican and Episcopal priests commonly bless foxhounds on St. Hubert's Day (November 3). At least one Manhattan night club has been blessed by a Russian Orthodox priest Prince Serge Obolensky's Maisonette Russe. Besides blessing persons,
Roman Catholic priests sanctify houses, ships, domestic animals, bodies of watereven such humble but useful things as wells.
Last week there arrived in the U. S. an account of a Sunday service at the Circus Krone, a European outfit in London, in which the animals were blessed with full Roman Catholic ritual. Thus a new British...
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