Sentences with phrase «ago by the monks»

The company says it uses the same mortadella recipe developed more than 500 years ago by the monks of Bologna and Modena.

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In later life Martin Luther said that if ever a monk could go to heaven by his monkery, he would have been there twenty five years ago.

Although the blindingly evidential etiology of the man's statements lay far outside these cloistered monastery walls, who, while being graphically illustrated by the utterly impotent insanity of this monkish maelstrom, I'd still bet this whole monk - world thing owes its very inception and existence to one woman and one woman only,, the woman who first broke the heart of some long - ago - loser, some cowardly imbecilic pre-monk who mistakenly sought refuge on a rock - strewn and fallow hillside long long ago.

Thirty years ago, who would have dreamed that a 490 - page book by a Russian Orthodox monk would sweep Russia and sell millions of copies around the world?

Wilson, who lives outside Des Moines, Iowa, was emulating a Lenten tradition carried out by German monks hundreds of years ago.

I am a lifelong Christian who was taught evolution by Benedictine monks over fifty years ago.

I started journalling over 20 years ago, having been strongly influenced by the famous Benedictine monk, Thomas Merton.

It is now clear that Omar Khan Massoudi, director of Kabul» sNational Museum, and a few other Afghans risked their lives to protect the artifacts from the Taliban, who were intent on destroying images — and who, in 2001, succeeded in blowing up the famed Bamiyan Buddhas, towering stone sculptures carved into the mountainside by monks about 1,500 years ago.

Practiced for centuries by Thai monks, and forming a central component of Thai medicine, Thai massage is believed to have originated over 2,500 years ago in India.

Created more thousand years ago as a meat substitute for Chinese Buddhist monks, seitan is made by mixing the protein in wheat (gluten) with herbs and spices.