A quick breakfast post before walking across town for a coach to London.
Havig marries Xenia in thirteenth century Constantinople. She is Orthodox. He is posing as Catholic:
"'...we found us an Eastern priest who'd perform the rite, and a Western bishop who'd grant me dispensation for, hm, an honorarium.'" (p. 121)
When Sheila and I married while I was still at University, we paid four clergymen:
the Archbishop of Dublin charged me £1 for dispensation to marry a Protestant in his diocese;
the priest whose church we borrowed;
a Presbyterian minister who had taught Sheila at University and a Jesuit priest whom I had befriended at school concelebrated the ceremony.
A Religious Studies lecturer at Manchester Polytechnic commented, "Cheeky devil!" when I told him about that Archbishop.
OK, folks. That's it until very late this evening or some time tomoz.
Go with God or gods.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteIIRC, such honoraria paid to clergy is very low in the US, but only one pound is a lot smaller than I expected! Maybe a little higher in the US to cover legal and administrative costs?
Ad astra! Sean