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Sexton Robert Newman, preacher Cotton Mather, and Prince Hall, a free black who founded the Negro Freemasons, are all buried here.
They live similar lives, conduct similar courses, and with similar subventions go to similar conferences and give similar papers on every continent (much as David Lodge describes them in Small World ). They are not as tightly knit as other fraternities, past and present (Knights Templar, Freemasons, Jesuits, Mafia, Ancient and Mystical Order of the Rosy Cross, corporate executives of Coca-Cola or Chrysler, or managers of labor unions).
Venice was home to a number of scuole that were not “schools” at all but old confraternities similar, minus their religious affiliation, to today’s Freemasons, Rotarians, Elks, or Lions.
Or are they simply updates of the confessional and the shrink, the cult and the Freemasons?