A bishop and his acolyte attend her, while courtiers in black robes emerge from the gloom on either side of the bed.

A Derrida acolyte describes the first, giddy days of her conversion.

After a triumphal festival performance in California last month, Smith and co will soon tour with a string of acolytes supporting.

Afterward he commented to me that I had reminded him of his days as an acolyte when he was a teenager.

But he also set an undisputed world record, for the number of aides, acolytes , spongers and hangers-on that he assembled in one place at the same time.