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...Fortress-walled Saint Catherine's monastery on the Sinai peninsula has been a pilgrimage site since its founding by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian in the 6th century. According to tradition, the monastery sits at the base of the mountain wh...

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...al of time and must be on my way. The cold will not harm me, child, and I will stay at a Buddhist monastery until I am well acclimatised, before ven... ...d in her motherly arms. Noticing his wound, she broke into a stream of Spanish, thanking all the saints that he was still alive. Gavin laughed and ... ...t he was still alive. Gavin laughed and lifting her off her feet said teasingly, ‘With all those saints to protect me, how can I fail to return to y... ...on her face, praying loudly in Spanish and exhorting God, the Virgin Mary and all the angels and saints to save them. Helen cupped her hands over h...

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... calendar in leaves. I found the same plant growing at Qumran, behind the monastery. While I studied there it survived several sand storms. Locus... ...eceived a message: the mebakker at Qumran has invited me to return to the monastery for a second residency. He wants me to instruct others in the Me... ...ut I think of the Qumran desert; I think of the cliffs and caves near the monastery. Morning and evening shadows! What great fogs used to engulf us! ... ...uch kindness, such classic renderings in stone and bronze. We revered his Saint John, his serenity in stone. We exhibited his sculpture in every co... .... An ancient bridge and my face—ravaged by time. At the little chapel of Saint Hubert, which I admire so much, so complete in itself, pigeons were ... ...Fidelity. What delusions. Tomorrow I look forward to working again on my Saint John. I have decided to darken the background. I knew Sandro Bott...

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..., in quest of an island which inspiration told them was a land promised to the saints. This fabled country, which might have been Brazil, was not foun... ... he sailed to Greenland. Upon landing on its shores he was surprised to find a monastery and a church, dedicated to St. Thomas, located near an active... ...g of hot water emanating from the volcano, which the friars conducted to their monastery and used for heating their building, cooking their food, and ... ...e to some sad fate. He is curiously inconsistent, for while a ship named for a saint is lucky, the festival of the saint is an unlucky day, and if he ... ...stances eat the heart of a fish. He has unlucky days besides Fridays, and the saints' days. The first Monday in April is bad, it was Cain's birthday;... ...ved to Mexico by his son Martin, who deposited them in the family vault in the monastery at Tezcuco, where they remained for sixty-seven years and unt...

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...dent League Baseball Tuesdar. On Old Campus:Zeta Psi 15, Netherleigh 2. On Monastery Field: Alpha Delta Phi 7, Chi Psi 2. Wednesday. On Monastery Fiel... ...appa Alpha 3. On Stetson Field ; Thota Delta Chi 9, Phi Delta Thettt 8. On Monastery Field: Alpha Delta Phi 9, Delta Psi 8. Spring '07 Hats Now Really... ...v Games. Sntuniay. On Old Campus-, Psi Sigma Kappa 12, Keppa Al- pha 0. On Monastery Field ; Delta Psi 5, Tliota Delta Chi 4, ^ Mondnv. On 0I<1 Campus... ...ear '07 Largo—New World Symphony by A. d' Vorals Phantasie in E flat by C. Saint-Satus A. D. BAST I EN PKOPHIBTOK or TMB WilliamsHairOrssslngParlors U... .... Dnrint; l'.W4-(;. 'M. tiniliillun was at I'Eeole Norniale Sn| erienre de Saint Cloml, ne.d in lilOl) received the Professornt des Ecoles Xonnales (L... ...trnctor in French is XI. Henri Clement Luguet. LikeM tTnibiilun. he was at Saint Cluiid and was a()poinled Boursier en Angielerre. During Ui04-.t he w...

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...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of... ...tion Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por... ... way. Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series,... ...urt were pitched in a beautiful meadow about five hun- dred paces from the monastery of Marlaigne. The fine weather changed to rain, which fell with a... ...ly hate his treason. I made presents of three copies of the picture to the monastery of La Trappe. On the back of the original I de- scribed the circu... ...cessor. The name of this monk was D. Francois Gervaise. He had been in the monastery for some years, had lived regularly during that time, and had gai...

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...Saint Catherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno, born Genoa 1447 – 15 September 1510) is an Italian Roman Catholic saint and mystic, admired for her work among the sick and the poor. She was a member of the noble Fieschi fa...

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...as terrific; Great Tom was boom- ing sullenly over the uproar; the bell of Saint Mary’s was clang- ing with alarm; St. Giles’s tocsin chimed furiously... ...ood by Richard of England at the gates of Ascalon, and drew the spear from sainted King Louis in the tents of Damietta,” the individual addressed as R... ...s shame to face truth from a friend? Speak, in the name of heaven and good Saint Botibol. Romane de Clos-V ougeot will bear your tidings like a man!” ... ...fe, and gave orders that the boy should be sent too, to take the vows at a monastery. Both sentences had been executed. Otto, in a boat, and guarded b... ...f his father’s men-at-arms, was on the river going towards Cologne, to the monastery of Saint Buffo there. The Lady Theodora, under the guard of Sir G... ...ch was carried off by a fleet messenger. “Now write to the Superior of the monastery at Cologne, and bid him send me back my boy, my darling, my Otto—...

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...s arms, the priest made cold answer, that the book was the property of the Monastery at Coldingham, and had only been lent to Lord Malcolm Stewart by ... ...grand old Priory of Coldingham, founded by King Edgar, son of Margaret the Saint, and of Malcolm Ceanmohr, in testimony of his gratitude for his recov... ...very of his father’s throne from the usurper Donaldbane, was a Benedictine monastery under the dominion of the great central Abbey of Durham. It had b... ... by the good founder, for his own lodging and that of visitors, within the monastery. It was a narrow building, about thirty feet from the church, was... ... man and sain, riding back to Glenuskie the morn, I should still bless the saints 31 Yo n g e and bid you gang.’ Rarely did the youth of the fifteent... ...illage wake. Not only was it Midlent, but the day was the feast of a local saint, in whose honour Lenten requirements were relaxed. Monks and priests ...

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...d quay that overlooks it, and looks across too at the friendly faubourg of Saint Symphorien and at the terraced heights which rise above this. In- dee... ...s not sufficiently detached. The cathedral of Tours, which is dedicated to Saint Gatianus, took a long time to build. Begun in 1170, it was finished o... ...hem up again. The embossed and crocketed cupolas which crown the towers of Saint Gatien are not very pure in taste; but, like a good many impuri- ties... ...ng David of Mercie. These things have been set out in the church of an old monastery, long since suppressed, and the rest of the collection occupies t... ...h is a much more absorbing picture. A part of the mass of build- ings (the monastery) dates only from the last century; and the stiff architecture of ... ...ation: it looks too much as if it had been burnt down the year before. The monastery was demolished during the Revolution, and it injures a little the...

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...in knavery, in whom there was more of the material that makes thieves than saints, and who knew just how far it was possible to go without catching th... ...!” “By the queen of Antlers!” replied the Burgundian, “by my faith, by the saints, by God! and by the devil, I know only stories of the Court of Burgu... ...slate, and the delicate re- mark of our Queen of Marguerites, who merits a saint’s niche in this collection; she who first concocted such good stories... ...ake a great and noble house. With this idea, he had put his other son in a monastery, under the guidance and govern- 61 Droll Stories – Vol. 2 ment o...

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... those sovereignties, in monuments that recall their memory. The cupola of Sainte-Genevieve towers above the Latin quarter. 4 The Brotherhood of Cons... ...ands above the sorrows of both banks and extend her arms from the faubourg Saint-Antoine to the faubourg Saint- Marceau. Let us hope that this sublime... ..., worn face. The sight of a priest issuing from the beautiful cathedral of Saint-Etienne in Vienna, bearing the Extreme Unction to a dying person, det... ...what strange path could Providence have led a being so guileless into this monastery without a lock, where recluses of both sexes lived beneath a rule...

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...ionary tribunal. This tanner, a man of profound convictions, who resembled Saint-Just as to character, was afterwards mixed up in Baboeuf ’s conspirac... ... part in Paris, where he bought one of the finest mansions in the Faubuorg Saint-Germain after marrying the only daughter of a rich contractor named S... ... is in actual danger; and the plot is far better laid than that of the Rue Saint-Nicaise. Pichegru, Georges, Moreau, the Duc d’Enghien, Polignac and R... ... the judiciary annals of the Empire. The forest of Nodesme belonged to the monastery of Notre- Dame. That monastery, seized, sacked, and demolished, h... ...f a hidden stream which no doubt determined in former days the site of the monastery. The late owner of the title to the forest of Nodesme was the fir... ..., which dated back for eight centuries, and to discover that at one time a monastery had existed in the heart of the forest. When the first rumblings ...

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...archbishop who sinned no longer because he was unable to, and passed for a saint,) he had to suffer from intolerable desires followed by fits of melan... ...dinals,” and the master, with sorrow, began to pray St. Gatien, the patron saint of Innocents, to save his servant. He made him kneel down beside him,... ...commend himself also to St. Philippe, but the wretched priest implored the saint be- neath his breath to prevent him from failing if on the mor- row t... ... admiring the great sense of the prelate, left the country equipped by the monastery, and blessed by the abbot, to the great delight of his friends an... ...d thinking how she could commit a venial sin. On her return from the great monastery, she saw in the court- yard of her castle the little Jallanges, w... ...mself, and also to obey her, Rene de Jallanges set out to- wards the great monastery. 49 Droll Stories – Vol. 1 HOW THE SAID LOVE-SIN WAS RE- PENTED ...

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...plied the venerable churchman, “the rule is strict. A woman cannot enter a monastery of the order of St. Bruno without a special permission from His H... ...y the Archbishop. None of the nuns may leave the convent; though the great Saint, St. Theresa, often left her cell. The Visitor or the Mothers Supe- r... ... dim that you could scarcely see the great black crucifix, the portrait of Saint Theresa, and a picture of the Madonna which adorned the grey parlour ... ...k’s life is scarcely comprehensible. A man seems confessed a weakling in a monastery; he was born to act, to live out a life of work; he is evading a ... ...onvent life! A man may have any number of motives for burying himself in a monastery; for him it is the leap over the precipice. A woman has but one m... ...d to lose sight of all but the soul. If the doctrine and the spirit of the Saint to whom we owe this refuge had not raised me above earth’s anguish, a...

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...y as she did the thorns of a position which can only be likened to that of Saint-Laurence on his grid-iron, is it any wonder that she sometimes cried ... ...ms without too roughly jarring the existing state of things or incurring a Saint-Bartholomew of clerks, Rabourdin considered that an evolution of twen... ... Voltairean, yet punctual at mass if a fashionable company could be met in Saint Thomas Aquinas,—such a man as this secretary-gen- eral resembled, in ... ...and awakens ideas within his mind. Such a scene represents both life and a monastery. A few days earlier the beautiful Madame Firmiani, one of the cha...

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... beings. Now imagine ME, Blondet, who shiver as if in the polar regions at Saint-Cloud, in the midst of this glowing Burgundian climate. The sun sends... ... 13 Balzac lower of Napoleon untold sums; Val, the creation of Regnault de Saint-Jean d’Angely, Cassan, built by a mistress of the Prince de Conti; in... ...uerre lived an irreproachable life at Les Aigues, one might even call it a saintly one, after her famous adventure,—you remember it? One evening in a ... ...u took charge of Arsene’s affairs by marrying her. A former convert in the monastery, attached to Rigou as a dog is to his master, became the groom, g...

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... which belonged to Cassivellaunus, and which was probably near what is now Saint Albans, in Hertfordshire. However, brave Cassivellaunus had the worst... ...ear London, where there had been a temple to Apollo, a church dedicated to Saint Peter, which is now Westminster Abbey. And, in London itself, on the ... ...ilt an other little church which has risen up, since that old time, to be Saint Paul’s. After the death of Ethelbert, Edwin, King of Northumbria, wh... ...the King held his court at Chester, and went on the river Dee to visit the monastery of St. John, the eight oars of his boat were pulled (as the peopl... ...of the saddle, and gave him a mortal hurt. For six weeks he lay dying in a monastery near Rouen, and then made his will, giving En gland to William, ... ...ieved from any remaining fears of William Fitz Robert, by his death in the Monastery of St. Omer, in France, at twenty six years old, of a pike wound ...

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...t of all. Oh! she was perfect past all parallel — Of any modern female saint’s comparison; So far above the cunning powers of hell, Her gu... ... A great opinion of her own good qualities; Neglect, indeed, requires a saint to bear it, And such, indeed, she was in her moralities; But ... ...ons he read, and lectures he endured, And homilies, and lives of all the saints; To Jerome and to Chrysostom inured, He did not take such st... ... up—see Gazette.’ To Norman Abbey whirl’d the noble pair,— An old, old monastery once, and now Still older mansion; of a rich and rare Mix...