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| Sunday Intruder |
Weekly Catholic paper that documented a case of fidgetiness cured by prayers to St. Fidgeta, as seen in the "Catholic Problems" column [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 22]. Priests Thurifer and Plotch are asked questions of the readers, including Mrs. Emily Faldstool and Mrs. Anthony Adverse Crapple.
While this publication does not exist - it's just one of many titles Bellairs created that ridicule titles of real publications - Myers recalls that there was a weekly Catholic paper distributed in many parishes called Our Sunday Visitor. "It was of somewhat conservative bent and was geared to the average parishoner with no particular intellectual pretensions. I'm sure it never had a column as crassly titled as 'Catholic Problems.'"
Plotch is one of many made-up words that Bellairs was fond of creating, though the name does bring to mind an echo of author Robert Bloch.
A thurifer is the altar server who carries a censer in a liturgical service.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Sunday_Visitor
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