The ministers, identified by Pinellas Park police as Richard Barnard, 60, and Chester Gallagher, 55, both of Illinois, were quietly arrested after their nondenominational 7 a.m. service when they told officers they intended to enter the hospice to provide Terri Schiavo with Communion.

Later in the day, Monsignor Thaddeus Malanowski, family spiritual adviser to Schiavo and her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, gave the brain- damaged woman Holy Communion by placing a drop of consecrated wine on her lips.

Malanowski said Schiavo's mouth was too parched to receive a particle of the host wafer. Because she had just entered her 10th day without food or water, and ``death is imminent,'' the priest said he also administered Catholic last rites.

Bob Schindler's assessment of his daughter's condition was more optimistic.

Schindler said his family doctor told him what to look for as Schiavo's condition deteriorates. Although she appears gaunt from lack of sustenance, when he pinched her skin, it was surprisingly resilient, a sign she remains somewhat hydrated, he said.

``Her cheekbones dominate her face and her eyes look like they are going to pop,'' Schindler said. ``Visualize a concentration camp victim, and that's what she looks like.''

Medical personnel at Hospice House Woodside have begun to treat his daughter with pain medication, Schindler said.

``Whoever tells you that starving to death is a peaceful way to go is full of it,'' he said.

Some Demonstrators Agitated

As the day grew warmer and muggier Sunday morning, some among a growing crowd of approximately 100 demonstrators became unruly.

One man repeatedly taunted a phalanx of police officers by giving them a Nazi salute. The officers ignored him.

Around 11 a.m., a crowd began to chant, ``Give Terri water!'' And a man and a woman approached the police line bearing water bottles.

As had every other arrested person before her, Helen Valdis, 43, of Wisconsin, made a token show of disobeying police orders to desist and was taken away quietly.

However, Colorado resident Doug McBurney, 35, resisted officers by stiffening his body and repeatedly screaming, ``Don't murder her!'' He was handcuffed and placed in a police wagon.

Police Capt. Sanfield Forseth said McBurney was the first of the 37 people arrested up to that point to give officers any trouble at all.

As with all 36 others, he was charged with misdemeanor trespassing and jailed with bail set at $250.

After the arrests, Bobby Schindler tried to calm the demonstrators, telling them they were doing his sister no good by taunting police.

``It is not going to help at all,'' the younger Schindler said as he waded into the crowd. ``The cops are just here to do a job.''

A man in the crowd who later identified himself as Robert J. More of the Demonstrably Non-Counterfeit Roman Catholic Protection Network began to argue with Schindler.

``The fact is we are all Terri's brothers,'' More shouted.

Again, Bobby Schindler appealed for calm and lawful behavior.

``We are not going to solve this problem today by getting arrested,'' he said.

Later, he lamented the lack of civility among some self- professed Schindler supporters.

``I have nothing but praise for the cops, but those people won't listen to me,'' he shrugged.

Police later continued to show restraint when a group of wheelchair users from the organization Not Dead Yet converged on a hospice driveway and slid from their chairs to lie on the ground in an act of civil disobedience.

``We love our tubes and hoses,'' proclaimed activist Carol Cleigh of North Carolina when it was her turn on the bullhorn.

Police declined to make arrests. ``We are not going to press this issue,'' one officer said.

The spectacle continued as one man strode up and down the sidewalk bearing a baby doll smeared with red paint and a sign with the name King Solomon crossed out above the words Judge Greer, in reference to Circuit Judge George Greer.

Nearby, another demonstrator held a sign that read: ``Hospice or Auschwitz?''

Counterdemonstrators Appear

A handful of counterdemonstrators holding signs touting the ``Revolutionary Communist Party'' decried what they said was ``Christian fascism.''

It was Judge Greer who ruled, after a January 2000 nonjury trial, that evidence showed Terri Schiavo would not want to be kept alive in a persistent vegetative state with no hope of improvement.

Michael Schiavo and two of his relatives testified that his wife made statements prior to suffering heart failure in 1990 at age 26, indicating her wish not to be kept alive with tubes and hoses.

The Schindlers testified their daughter would want to be kept alive. They dispute their daughter's diagnosis and say she reacts to them and could improve with therapy.

The Gulfport couple have repeatedly appealed the case up and down the state and the federal court systems.

Their only major success came in April 2002 when another judge ordered Terri Schiavo's feeding tube reinserted two days after it was removed for the first time on Greer's order.

In October 2003, when the tube was removed for the second time and Terri Schiavo had gone six days without sustenance, Gov. Jeb Bush interceded using a hastily crafted measure known as Terri's Law that was subsequently ruled unconstitutional.

At afternoon and evening news conferences, Schindler supporters again called on Bush to intervene.

They also asked congressional leaders to enforce witness subpoenas requiring that Terri Schiavo be kept alive so she can testify before House and Senate committees.

Reporter Anthony McCartney contributed to this report.