CAPTORS TREATED ME WELL.Byline: CLAIRE BRENNAN BIG-hearted Fr Michael Sinnott did not have a bad word to say about his captors yesterday - his only gripe gripe v. To have sharp pains in the bowels. n. 1. gripes Sharp, spasmodic pains in the bowels. 2. A firm hold; a grasp. was lack of sleep. Finally freed on Wednesday night after 32 days in captivity, the 79-year-old Columban missionary vowed to continue his work in the southern Philippines, if allowed by his order. And he joked he would not be kidnapped Kidnapped caught in the intrigues of Scottish factions, David Balfour and Alan Breck are shipwrecked, escape from the king’s soldiers, and undergo great dangers. [Br. Lit.: R. L. Stevenson Kidnapped] See : Adventurousness again - the Mindanao separatists separatists, in religion, those bodies of Christians who withdrew from the Church of England. They desired freedom from church and civil authority, control of each congregation by its membership, and changes in ritual. In the 16th cent. would have to go for a younger man who could keep up with their hiking pace. Fr Sinnott revealed how he: HIKED through jungles, survived raging seas and slept in a swamp despite his heart problems WAS kept in "primitive conditions" SURVIVED for 10 days without his vital heart medication but never feared for his life and GOT an apology from his abductors. Looking frail and unshaven in Manila yesterday, the smiling Wexford-born priest said: "Although the conditions were very primitive I never had any sickness or pains. They treated me very well. "The night I was kidnapped they were quite rough when they threw me into a truck. "After that they couldn't have done more to make it easy for me in the conditions in which we were living." |
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