Pachomian

As for Fannie, she slipped out of Portugal as stealthily as she had slipped out of the Pachomian oasis.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

It hadn't taken the fugitive Pachomian more than an afternoon sipping watered-down port in a sunny Portuguese garden to convince the nonagenarian nun that the time had come to honor the Holy Virgin's wishes, to present her exhortations and warnings to humankind, with or without Vatican cooperation.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

Then, they sold the Pachomian compound to the Jordanian military.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

The Pachomian sisterhood was far from unanimous in its enthusiasm to grant to its unruly male guest the privilege of handling, reading, and discussing the transcription around which their order had coalesced (ultimately, their custodianship of the Fatima revelations had knit them together more tightly than their advocacy of women's rights or even their devotion to St. Pachomius), yet there was none among them who would oppose the will of Domino and the abbess.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

For her part, Masked Beauty was firm in maintaining that the paper in question was the private property of the Pachomian Order, to which Dr. Goncalves, his face growing more scarlet by the moment, replied that no such order was recognized by the Church and therefore did not exist.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

They nodded politely when Domino informed them that their guest was fully recovered from fever, thanks to God and Pachomian charity, and would be departing their company on the supply truck the following day or the day after.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

Evidently, she did a pretty good job, for shortly after noon, she sought him out and had him e-mail Scanlani with the Pachomian demand for full disclosure.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

Moreover, there had never been any question about whether or not he would leave the Pachomian convent: his eventual departure was written in every little star that ever burped its hydrogen and farted its helium in the void above the roofless roof of the Rapunzel Suite.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

That may be especially true of the Pachomian Order because we are merely a centimeter above a lay sisterhood, no pun intended.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000

She would, with his assistance, visit such sites from time to time, but the primary focus of the Pachomian abbess's investigations proved to be on a different subject altogether.

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000