priesting

"The Priesting of Arilan."

Cornelius states that his priesting was not welcomed by the clergy or the laity, who held that one who had been baptised only at the point of death could not become a priest.

This painting was of a delicate and intricate craft the like of which I had seen but once before - in an old, old text in the scriptorium of the monastery where I received my priesting.

"THE PRIESTING OF ARILAN" Young Denis Arilan intended to be a priest-the first Deryni priest in two hundred years!