And Mosessentthemtothewar, a thousand ofeverytribe, them andPhinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with theholy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.
"For me the war is still present - it's present in all the families that do not know the truth about what has happened, " says Father Cortina, who spent much of the war as a parish priest in one of the most conflict-ridden areas of the country.
Those things are at their mildest in Matt Lane, the librarian and archivist of the title: benign high-priest of literary hush, untouched by history (too late for the first world war and a non-combatant in the second), unproblematically Christian.