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	February 12th
		Silence was essential for the safety of the Resurrectionists; and in gravelly soils they had a peculiar mode of flinging out the earth, in order to prevent the rattling of the stones against the iron spade.
		The Resurrectionists, by associating with the lower class of undertakers, obtained possession of the bodies of the poor which were taken to their establishments several days before interment, and often a clergyman read the funeral service over a coffin filled with brick-bats, or other substitute for the stolen body.
		Nevertheless, so useful were the services of the regular Resurrectionists, that when they got into trouble, the surgeons made great exertions in their favour, and advanced large sums of money to keep them out of gaol, or support them during imprisonment.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/feb/12.htm (4178 words)

	A Brief History of Polish Pasto
		The Resurrectionists’ main area of activity was the largest Polish center in America – Chicago – where they established numerous parishes and acquitted themselves as builders of magnificent churches.
		Thanks to the Resurrectionists, the Polish parishes formed numerous religious associations, choirs and theatrical groups.
		Jozef Weber, a Resurrectionist working in the United States (before this, he had been auxiliary bishop of Lwow) visited the Polish parishes in Canada.
	www.tchr.org /usa/usaEn/BriefHistory.html (2168 words)

	Books \| Everyone knows this is nowhere
		The Resurrectionists occupies approximately the same time frame as The Keepers of Truth and treads the same metaphysical territory, but its chief setting is the frigid hinterland of northern Michigan.
		When the novel opens, Frank Cassidy, a self-confessed 'scavenger at the edge of existence', is working in a fast-food joint in New Jersey, pulling down a couple of bucks an hour at the age of 25 and still trying to get over his childhood.
		Inside The Resurrectionists is a powerful, subtle and uplifting account of happiness being found against the odds, but it's muffled by melodrama.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4393499-99930,00.html (944 words)

	washingtonpost.com: A Mystery Tale That Won't Die (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As the dissecting-room porter for King's College, London, he knew that medical instructors needed corpses to teach anatomy, and he knew there were men called "resurrectionists" who were only too glad to supply the corpses.
		The body of a boy, somewhere between age 14 and 16, fair hair and gray eyes, unmarked except for a gash on his forehead.
		And so William Hill alerted his superior, and the superior called for the police, and the resurrectionists in question, instead of getting their usual fee, got hauled straight to jail -- and right into the pages of criminal history, from which they have now been resurrected by historian Sarah Wise.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A63117-2004Jul19?language=printer (552 words)

	PGSA - Resurrectionists Chicago
		The Resurrectionists were under contract to the Bishop of Chicago for ninety-nine years.
		Together with a handful of Resurrectionist priests and Brothers and a few diocesan priests who called themselves "Tertiaries of the Resurrectionists," Father Barzynski directed the foundation and establishment of a number of Chicago parishes: Holy Trinity (1872), St. Adalbert's (1874), Immaculate Conception (1882), SS.
		Perhaps no Resurrectionist other than Father Vincent Barzynski made such an impact on immigrant Poles in the Chicago archdiocese as Father Francis Gordon, C.R. He became one of the leading figures in Chicago because of his total dedication to the cause of Catholicism and his concern for the Polish immigrant.
	www.pgsa.org /archchipolpar/resurrectionistschi.htm (1381 words)

	Kim Wilkins
		These resurrectionists were reviled, especially the notorious Scottish pair, Burke and Hare, who were charged with murdering to acquire fresh bodies.
		The era of the resurrectionist was also the era of the gothic novel, and it's easy to see how the two became linked up in my imagination.
		That's why The Resurrectionists has a subplot in the 1790s, and if you're really a keen reader of the original gothic, you will see that I've deliberately (mis)-used a lot of the conventions.
	home.primus.com.au /kimwilkins/resurr_graverobbing.html (642 words)

	Book Reviews - The Resurrectionists by Michael Collins
		Set in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, The Resurrectionists is the story of Frank Cassidy, orphaned at 5 by a fire that killed his parents, and raised by his uncle.
		While trying to settle his uncle's estate, Frank delves into the mysteries surrounding his family, the fire that killed his parents, his uncle's death, and the man in a coma who allegedly murdered his uncle.
		The Resurrectionists is a novel that explores the meaning of past and identity and if happiness can be found by discovering them both.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /resurrectionists (162 words)

	THE FLESH AND THE FIENDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The chilling true story of notorious "Resurrectionists" Burke and Hare has been told on film a number of times, usually with the names of key historical figures altered.
		His self-appointed mission is to replace the quacks that proliferate in the profession with cutting-edge physicians, doctors who'll strive to advance the field of medicine to benefit all humanity.
		Enter the Resurrectionists, graverobbers who dig up bodies to supply Dr. Knox and others with the anatomy subjects they require.
	www.eccentric-cinema.com /cult_movies/flesh_fiends.htm (853 words)

	RCF - Book Reviews
		The interwoven narratives ask readers to compare the two travelers, each of whom carries human cargo over a shoulder—in his case, a woman bound for slave life in a brothel, and in hers, a dead infant.
		Evenson does not portray violence to shock or mortify (though a reader may be both shocked and mortified) but to illustrate the principle that murder is an adjunct to moral authority.
		When the resurrectionists breach the divide between life and death, Evenson’s Kline reflects that “Truth cannot be imparted.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /review/bookreviews/03_2/dark.html (281 words)

	body snatching. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Those who engaged in the illicit practice were sometimes called resurrectionists; they were active from about the early 18th cent.
		Public opposition to any dissection of bodies was further aroused by discovery of the resurrectionists’ activities; outbursts of violence occurred in Europe as well as in America.
		This and other similar cases led to the passage (1832) in Great Britain of the Anatomy Act, which permitted the legal acquisition by medical schools of unclaimed bodies.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bo/bodysnat.html (277 words)

	The New Journal Magazine at Yale
		By then, the image of “resurrectionists,” as professional grave robbers were called, had already been fixed in the popular imagination.
		On that night in 1824, the perpetrators (no one knows for certain whether resurrectionists or the students themselves committed the crime) took a wagon to the West Haven cemetery.
		The most basic method of keeping bodies underground was to pack the grave with bundles of straw, sticks, and large slabs of stone to slow down potential diggers.
	www.yale.edu /tnj/content/nov05/agraveoffense.html (2258 words)

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		To ride this book all the way to its emotionally perfect ending, you've got to be able to stick with a most imperfect sort of protagonist--Frank Cassidy, a man of the 1970s whose recent past is laced with mental illness and whose future seems certain to involve small rooms with bars on the windows.
		But "The Resurrectionists" is a novel of redemption, so don't abandon the poor sod the first time he steals a car to take his family back to his old hometown nor that time he robs an old fellow and makes off with the guy's life savings.
		"The Resurrectionists" is mostly about Frank's decision to move his family back to rural Michigan to fight for his share of the family estate.
	www.thecolumnists.com /miller/miller243.html (890 words)

	Odd Ends » A Coffin Torpedo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It was disclosed that [a resurrectionist gang] had a regular contract with the firm of A. Jones and Company, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and that they operated in different parts of the state, remaining at one point for only a short time.
		Evidence was found to show that they were then attempting to fill an order for seventy bodies, two of which, that of an old lady and a boy, had been recently exhumed at Toledo, and that sixty bodies had been shipped to the Ann Arbor firm while the gang was operating at Columbus.
		Another odd invention against the resurrectionists was the mortsafe.
	logiston.com /oddends/2005/10/a-coffin-torpedo (701 words)

	Leader Publications
		Living in rest areas, he encountered weird characters on the fringe of society and soaked in the "bigness" of the United States.
		He describes this feeling of wide open spaces lacerated with lightning on the road in "The Resurrectionists," then with nimble agility shifts to the claustrophobia of the bathroom, Frank committing a robbery with a finger jabbed in another man's back.
		He transcends the typical murder mystery by setting "The Resurrectionists" in an arc that encompasses the paranoid cold war 1950s to the 1970s as history recycles itself.
	www.leaderpub.com /articles/2004/08/03/news/dowagiac_news/dnnews1.txt (1083 words)

	Michael Collins: The Man Who Goes to Extremes, Notre Dame Magazine Online - University of Notre Dame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Both The Keepers of Truth and The Resurrectionists are social critiques at heart.
		Keepers takes place in an unnamed Midwestern town whose citizens are still reeling from the collapse of the manufacturing base and loss of their livelihood.
		The Resurrectionists uses the 1950s era of the Cold War as a backdrop.
	www.nd.edu /~ndmag/w2002-03/collinswriter.html (872 words)

	Kim Wilkins: The Resurrectionists - an infinity plus review
		It is particularly exciting for lovers of that most sub of genres -- supernatural horror fiction -- who not only have to put up with gentle derision (and that's from their friends who are willing to be kind), but who also suffer from far too many poorly written, ridiculous stories.
		The Resurrectionist is absorbing and intriguing, well paced, there is good build-up of tension, a couple of cliff-hangers, uncertainty over whether people are going to be good or evil, and a nice, spooky evil at the heart of it all.
		And with the locals' open hostility, it becomes touch and go whether she will be able to escape the evil, even if she dies.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/resurrectionists.htm (840 words)

	Amazon.com: The Resurrectionists: A Novel: Books: Michael Collins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Resurrectionists, Irish writer Michael Collins's follow-up to his Booker Prize-nominated The Keepers of Truth, is a thriller that bubbles up from the tawdry stew of its central character's fringe existence.
		Set during the late 1970's, THE RESURRECTIONISTS is filled to the rim with pop culture and political references throughout the book, almost to the point of being distracting.
		This is a clever murder mystery that successfully transforms the reader to the harsh and snow-filled winter of the Upper Peninsula, and the anatomy of a small Midwestern town and all its secrets.
	www.amazon.com /Resurrectionists-Novel-Michael-Collins/dp/0743229045 (2863 words)

	Amazon.com: Resurrectionists: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Resurrectionist Charism: A History of the Congregation of the Resurrection (Volume I, 1836-1886) by John Iwicki and James Wahl (Paperback - 1986)
		Resurrectionist Charism: A History of the Congregation of the Resurrection (Volume III, 1932-1965) by John Iwicki (Paperback - 1992)
		The resurrectionist by Gary K Wolf (Unknown Binding - 1979)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Resurrectionists&tag=benlopark&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1 (292 words)

	SFRevu Review
		Then when his lover is killed, he returns to his old nurse, and ultimately to his trader family, which has now fallen on lean times without its head.
		He runs across the village of Resurrectionists literally minutes before it is destroyed.
		And the Sarakheen's main collaborator in efforts to prevent the resurrection is Blackburn, a man who had helped Cale leave the prison side of the prison planet.
	sfrevu.com /Review-id.php?id=3178 (610 words)

	DesiJournal.com - The Resurrectionists
		The Resurrectionists is by far one of the best books I have read in a while.
		Frank of course, is a "resurrectionist" coming back to take control of his life by taking control of his past.
		The Resurrectionists might be called a mystery novel, but it is a lot much more than that.
	www.desijournal.com /book_print.asp?ArticleId=32 (567 words)

	Michael Collins: Death of a Writer : Lost Souls : The Resurrectionists : Book Review
		Certainly, not eventually hopeful as in a book called “The Resurrectionists.” Working with Mary I have learned that I have a propensity for the books she calls bleak.
		Just as The Resurrectionists was one of my top picks for 2002, Lost Souls will be one of my picks for 2004.
		References to good and evil, hope and despair, death and rebirth, and salvation and resurrection occur throughout, as Frank and his family adapt to life in a small town, try to cope with their internal conflicts, and ultimately to come out ahead.
	www.mostlyfiction.com /mystery/collins.htm (2854 words)

	Who were the Resurrectionists? in The AnswerBank: Society & Culture: People & Places
		Resurrectionists - so called because they helped bodies rise from the grave - had to move quickly.
		In 1832 the Anatomy Act was introduced - and ended the resurrectionists' trade.
		It permitted the bodies of those who had died in prison, workhouse and hospital, that were not claimed by relatives, to be used for anatomy purposes.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Article1526.html (557 words)

	The Legal Legacy of the Resurrectionists
		During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, body stealing or grave robbing became common in order to meet the demands of physicians and medical schools for bodies for dissection.
		The activities of the grave robbers, or “resurrectionists,” as they were also called, created a public outcry.
		It was not until the late nineteenth century, however, that body donation laws dried up the lucrative practice of the resurrectionists.
	www.astm.org /JOURNALS/FORENSIC/PAGES/612.htm (165 words)

	Donating your body - Features - The Lab - Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Gateway to Science
		However, in the past bodies studied were those of criminals hung for their crimes.
		The growing need for additional bodies was first met by a group called the Resurrectionists who robbed graves for bodies, scooting around a loophole in the law that said that a body was not considered 'property'.
		If they got the body out of the coffin before the grave was covered over they were not desecrating the grave, and as long as they didn't take the shroud or any jewellery on the body, the 'resurrection' was strictly legal.
	www.abc.net.au /science/features/donatingbody/default.htm (2313 words)

	Burke and Hare the body snachers, Edinburgh, Scotland - UK History
		Dr Robert Knox’s school of anatomy near Surgeons Hall is said to have attracted as many as 500 people to the anatomy classes there.
		So arose the sinister trade of the Body Snatcher and so good were they at their gory trade they also earned the nickname of the ‘resurrectionists’.
		So rife was the Body Snatching in Edinburgh that certain graveyards had large walls, railings and watchtowers erected, such as St Cuthberts at the foot of Lothian road and that of the Canongate Kirk.
	www.scotshistoryonline.co.uk /burke.html (878 words)

	Congregation of the Resurrection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		We are called Resurrectionists and referred to as C.R.'s.
		The Congregation is organized into three administrative provinces (Ontario-Kentucky, Polish, and the USA) and one region (South America) with general headquarters in Rome, Italy.
		Resurrectionists were involved in the founding and administration of the following churches in Chicago:
	www.gordontech.org /gordontech.aspx?pgID=873 (245 words)

	The Resurrectionists - Michael Collins - Penguin Group (USA)
		The solitude of the Upper Michigan Peninsula is Michael Collins’s heart of darkness in this compelling story of the unquiet dead.
		Once there, Frank wants answers, but realizes that what he is searching for—and the promise of the American Dream—is quickly receding from his grasp.
		Brilliant and unsettling, The Resurrectionists is an ironic yet chilling display of American culture in the seventies and a compassionate novel about a man struggling to overcome the crimes and burdens of his past.
	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143038221,00.html (207 words)

	Burke and Hare murders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		But these acts were not just done for profit; students of anatomy in their quest for knowledge also turned a hand to grave robbing.
		This became so common the locals ironically nicknamed the people who undertook these horrific deeds ‘Resurrectionists’.
		In the early 1790s three men were born whose actions would later cause a scandal in Great Britain and Ireland and become a part of British folklore.
	www.edinburgh.gov.uk /libraries/historysphere/burkeandhare/burkeandhare.html (2809 words)

	Two Glasgow student resurrectionists and their "sick friend"
		Two Glasgow student resurrectionists and their "sick friend"
		Knowing that their expedition might be spoiled by the numerous watchers, they took the most ample precautions against discovery.
		Once over the bridge, the students lost no time in conveying to their den the prize they had so ingeniously secured.
	www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/glasgow/anec221.htm (215 words)

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