Sentences with phrase «french monks»

Located beneath the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini on the Via Veneto, this morbid attraction, perhaps best suited for Halloween time, consists of bones from over 4,000 French monks who are said to have fled their home country for the safety of Rome during the French Revolution, and whose bones can now be found decorating the walls of the church's many chapels in intricate patterns such as crosses, flowers, arches, and other happy shapes.

Loosely based on the mysterious 1996 assassination of seven French monks in Algeria, Xavier Beauvois» understated fifth feature takes liberties with that widely scrutinized incident, but its simplistic milieu exists out of time.

Domestication practices were well known by then, Andersson says, and it's possible that French monks or farmers in Southern France with a taste for rabbit meat made an effort to round up bunnies that eventually became the founding population for the domestic rabbit.

Full disclosure: I do not like cheese, and think it is what desperate French monks ate when they ran out of actual food sometime in the Middle Ages.

Upon his conversion, Charles de Foucauld — a French monk and hermit — was ready to live all - out for God in some monastery or other.

Mersenne primes were named for the French monk Marin Mersenne, who studied these numbers more than 350 years ago.

The man whose name they now bear, the French monk Marin Mersenne (1588 - 1648), made a famous conjecture on which values of P would yield a prime.

We learned as much from him and his inner circle — such as from his translator, Tibetan Jinpa Thupten, who has a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Cambridge, and from the French monk Matthieu Ricard, who holds a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the Pasteur Institute in Paris — as they and their brethren from us.

Not exact matches

Even the chanting monks at the Sant «Antimo abbey are imports — a French brotherhood that took over the church a decade ago.

Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Desmond Tutu, Dorothy Day, the French Protestants who resisted fascism and protected Jews, Buddhist monks in Vietnam and many, many others were led by their religious convictions to fight for human dignity and human rights.

Zuccotti, it should be noted, falsely contrasts the alleged inaction of Pius XII with the work of Father Marie Benoît, the French Capuchin monk who coordinated the provision of food, shelter, and new identities for thousands of French and Italian Jews.

As Alex Bellos, author of Futebol, writes «The phrase «Brazilian footballer» is like the phrases «French chef» or «Tibetan monk».

Best remembered today as the founder of global homelessness charity Emmaus, the French Catholic monk became a hero of la résistance, a maverick MP, and a hugely respected critic of French politics and society.

(The names «Cahokia» and «Monks Mound» were applied long after the fact: Cahokia was the name of an Illini tribe that occupied the area in the 1600s, and Monks Mound was named for French Trappists who settled on one of its terraces in the 1800s.)

About a dozen of us — physicists, psychologists, brain scientists and clinicians, leavened by a French philosopher — introduced quantum mechanics, neuroscience, consciousness and various clinical aspects of meditative practices to a few thousand Buddhist monks and nuns.

French Catholic monks, who abstained from meat while observing Lent, pounced on the opportunity.

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Into Great Silence - a nearly 3 - hour, dialogue - free documentary about Catholic monks in the French Alps.

Hot on their trail is a self - flagellating monk (Paul Bettany) and a French detective (Jean Reno) with church connections of his own.

Into Great Silence INTO GREAT SILENCE is an intimate portrayal and examination of the life of the devout monks who live within the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order situated in the French Alps.

INTO GREAT SILENCE is an intimate portrayal and examination of the life of the devout monks who live within the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order situated in the French Alps.

Of Gods and Men - Monks stand their ground in the face of unrest in this somewhat engrossing French drama.

The true story of seven French Trappist monks who were kidnapped from their monastery in Tibhirine and killed during the Algerian Civil War, Of Gods and Men surpasses the tragically topical by focusing on the monks» faith and their spiritual commonality with their Muslim neighbors.

Located at the confluence of the Mekong and Nam Khan rivers, Luang Prabang is known for its well - preserved French colonial architecture and Indochinese villas, monk communities and gilded temples, rich historical significance, French and Laotian cuisines, and mesmerizingly serene pace of life.

Home to historic temples and elegant French provincial architecture, Luang Prabang, the UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a riot of color: the green of the trees contrasting with their bright blossoms and the saffron robes of the ever - present monks.

First utilized by French and Italian nuns and monks during the Renaissance, quilling did not become popular until the 18th century in Europe, when women practiced leisurely art that wasn't too stressful or demanding.

For example, the French phrase «l'habit ne fait pas le moine» becomes «the clothing doesn't make the monk» in English.