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Sister Oza is an instructor of Becky May Tipover [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 48].
The diary of Alpheus Winterborn discusses the Ark of the Covenant, saying "only the priests of the tribe of Levi were allowed to touch it, and once, a man named Oza was struck dead by God for touching the Ark when he shouldn't have - at least, that is what the Bible says [The Treasure of Alpheus Winterborn, 173].
In the story of David (Chronicles 13:9) is the story of a man named Oza who died for trying to keep the Ark from falling off an oxcart. Bowen picks up the trail from here, noting the man is named Uzzah in the King James version, Uzza in the RSV, but Oza in the Vulgate, "and doubtless in the Douai translation which was the only translation that American Catholics were allowed to read when John and I were young. So John knew the name, albeit the Catholic version, of the man struck dead and I'm sure that's what he was thinking of when he named this fictitious nun. The -a ending makes the name sound feminine. though I notice this didn't bother the author in the case of Sister M. Fiorello."
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