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Article: CHAPTER 13: A BLAST FROM THE PAST AIN'T DONE YET.(Lifestyle)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 13, 1999
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It took Max Timlin three full days in the musty old library of St. Pius College, north of Tampa, to make sense of Father Ralph's revelation: Raoul Glaber was not the real name of the leader of The Watchers. Max wasn't as convinced as Ralph that this was true, but he devoured the evidence.
He began by reading the Book of Revelation, sometimes known as the Book of the Apocalypse. He always thought the word ``apocalypse'' meant some great final cataclysm, as in the movie ``Apocalypse Now.'' But it was actually the Greek word for ``revelation.''
Under Father Ralph's tutelage, Max came to realize that the revelations of the last book of the Christian ...