 The cult of a real-life Sleeping Beauty who thousands of followersbelieve is capable of miracles this week has received a sharp setbackat the hands of the Catholic Church in the US. After local bishop Daniel Reilly, who accompanied President Clinton on his most recentvisit to Ireland, decreed that no Mass should be said at 15-year-old Audrey Santo's anniversary service, many stayed away from the event ata church in Worcester, Massachusetts. Audrey Santo |
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 Once they would have faced the horrific fate of being burned at the stake. Now the witches of America are staging a remarkable high profile comeback , as these photographs demonstrate. Taken in a hall owned by the Knights of St Columbus - complete with pictures of the Pope and crucifixes - they show dozens of modern witches taking part in a ritual to bring down energy for Halloween - or rather, for the Wiccan's holy day Samhain. |
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