Sentences with phrase «franciscan monk»

Founded in 1480 by a Franciscan monk following the appearance to him of the Virgin Mary, Locarno's historic monastery is a key visitor attraction and stands on a promontory overlooking the town.

Some historians had identified Geber as the translated name of an eighth - century Islamic alchemist, but Newman's research turned up evidence supporting a different interpretation: Geber was actually the alias of Paul of Taranto, an obscure Franciscan monk from southern Italy.

Bernardino de Sahagún, a Franciscan monk living in Mexico in the sixteenth century, noted the use of chiles for: «An injury to the tongue, biting of the tongue, laceration of the tongue.

I recounted a story of a Franciscan monk sojourning in China in the 14th century who disagreed with a Buddhist monk on the nature of monkeys from the woods that the Buddhist fed.

a retired franciscan monk in USA said recently that children offered themselves to the clergy.CNN did the story on it.

Pacioli, a Franciscan monk who published the first balance sheet in 1494, understood the power of data to transform the way companies make decisions.

for five days 22,000 christians from very different traditions all rub shoulders with each other, from russian orthodox to emergents, from evangelicals to franciscan monks.

The tradition of lighting small bonfires, called luminarias, on La Noche Buena was brought from Spain to Old Mexico in the 16th century by Franciscan monks.

Almonds were introduced to California in the mid 1700s by Franciscan monks who planted the trees to grace their missions along the coastal El Camino Real.

In the end, there were four scenes: A serf's house where the men discussed the tragedy while a mother nursed a dying child; an apothecary's store, where members of the medical profession debated cures for the plague; a church, where monks considered causes of the illness while they worked on illuminated manuscripts and where a priest was indifferent to a parishioner's pleas for help; and finally, a central market square where traveling Franciscan monks declared their beliefs about the plague, flagellants whipped themselves and blamed the Jews, and an old woman went crazy as she ranted about «the end of the world.»

However, archaeologists realized in 1978 that Franciscan monks had corrupted the name from «Lam «an / ayin» to «Lamanai,» and that adding the correct suffix of «ayin» changed the meaning of the name to submerged crocodile, a conclusion supported by the large number of crocodile representations found at Lamanai, including figurines, pottery decorations and the headdress of a 13 foot limestone mask found on a 6th century temple platform.

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And so the Armenians clang the bells of their upstairs chapel, the Franciscan organist eggs on the Latin chanting of his flock, and Ethiopian monks march to the beat of their own drummer.

Since Hindu fakirs, Buddhist monks, and Mohammedan dervishes unite with Jesuits and Franciscans in idealizing poverty as the loftiest individual state, it is worth while to examine into the spiritual grounds for such a seemingly unnatural opinion.

Obi - Wan Kenobi is an amalgam of the ascetic monk of religious epics — dressed in Franciscan robes and living in a desert hermitage — and the John Wayne hero of EL Dorado, passing on gun - lore to the neophyte Luke, who is destined to carry on after he's gone.

Our second monk, William of Ockham, was born in England about a dozen years after Aquinas's death, joined the Franciscans, was educated and later taught at Oxford, and died in 1347 in Munich after a life of considerable turbulence, both intellectual and ecclesiastical.

The presence of the university had attracted houses of monks, friars, and nuns to the city, and by the time Martin arrived there were many, including communities of most of the best known orders — the Benedictines, Augustinians, Carthusians, Dominicans, Franciscans and Servites.