"By Rick Badie"
" The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "
n Atlanta, Candace Lehrman Silvery was obvious basically as "The Female."
Ravenwood Cathedral Candace Lehrman, who as Female Sintana founded Atlanta's Ravenwood Cathedral and Seminary of Wicca, the cover Wiccan church arranged tax-exempt lay in Georgia, has died.
Across the command, she was considered the atmosphere who busted authoritative barriers and opened minds to the practice of paganism.
In 1975, Mrs. Silvery, aka Female Sintana, founded Ravenwood Cathedral, the state's cover pagan first acquaintance. By 1982, the high priestess had proudly challenged the IRS and Ravenwood became one of the cover Pagan congregations in the command to be arranged tax-exempt lay as a church.
It was groovy work, whispered her other half, David John Silvery, aka Lord Merlin, the Spacious Extremely happy Holy woman of Ravenwood, now to be found in Johns Creek.
"Her duty in life was to bring check on and impartiality to the pagan religion," he whispered. "She not purely won authoritative battles, but she won haughty hearts as well. Her major system was not to focus ethnic group but to bind some set wherever ethnic group may well learn the truth."
Impartial, Candace H. Lehrman Silvery, 73, had resided with her newborn in western North Carolina. She died Sept. 17 from complications of lung menace. A urban celebratory apparition be justifiable from 2 to 4 p.m. Oct. 2 at Gaiety Characteristic Happenings, 3760 Write off Roswell Sense, in Marietta.
Born on a Kansas dairy work on, Mrs. Silvery encouraged from Buffalo, N.Y., to Atlanta to nurse an ill friend. She stayed and egalitarian to mark out her edge inwards ministry but as a high priestess of Wicca, not in the Baptist likelihood.
It was 1978 when Mr. Silvery met the essential send-up musician, shortly while she'd started Ravenwood in a Victorian lower house on Moreland Control. Four living gone, the pair off married and embarked on a common a duty to edify ethnic group about Wiccans and Pagans. Wicca is a pre-Christian, nature-centered matriarchal religion from Western Europe that dates back expert than 800 living to the Celts.
"We attractive to let ethnic group know that we worked with soul as conflicting to burning up a chicken's blood and items like that," her other half whispered. "We did a ideal bit of outreach, not manifestly about the belief but an understanding of it."
In 1996, Mrs. Silvery dead Atlanta and settled cover in California and gone in Washington intensity. She and her other half were married 28 living. Five living ago, he encouraged to Bead Instance in Cherokee County.
"Once upon a time she encouraged, we were forever in send a letter to two or three times a week," her other half whispered. "She was a very powerfully despot and she caused fight, but knock back fight came truth. She had overwhelmingly high conscience and was very well-to-do."
Judy Clouse met Female Sintana 30 living ago.
"She set the principles high and demanded we work to the best of our abilities," whispered Mrs. Clouse, aka Female Astraea. "She was very charming and vibrant."
In a 1996 support that appeared in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the witch queen explained her departure: "I consider Ravenwood has come to the lead wherever it has to growth especially myself," she whispered. "I consider the elders give are strong enough.... My request is slothful in continuation the old tradition living wage."
Survivors other than her other half and newborn encompass one grandson.