Sentences with phrase «by monks from»

Since Augustine, the history is a mixture of good and bad, of the heroism of missionary endeavour from Augustine onwards, through the evangelism of the savage tribes of Scandinavia by monks from the north east of England, and onwards over the centuries to the great missions from the 18th century which led to so many of the churches whose Primates are here.

In a passage in Jerome (late 4th century or early 5th) he tells that he was visited in Palestine every day by monks from India, Persia and Ethiopia.

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After inviting a Taoist monk to perform a ritual at the founding ceremony of a nuclear project, seven officials from Northwest China's Gansu Province have been investigated by the local discipline watchdog.

Monks and Missionaries As Christianity became culturally assimilated, monks sought to live pure Christian lives by separating themselves from society and taking the gospel to EuMonks and Missionaries As Christianity became culturally assimilated, monks sought to live pure Christian lives by separating themselves from society and taking the gospel to Eumonks sought to live pure Christian lives by separating themselves from society and taking the gospel to Europe.

The words from Psalm 118 «Suscipe me, Domine» (receive me, Lord) are sung by those making profession as a monk or nun, and the teaching offered here on the nature of vows speaks to anyone who sees their human journey in terms of vocation.

Persuaded by their tears, Mary not only gained their pardon from her Son, but also forced two demons to impersonate the monk and the woman and take their place in prison.

In Foggia, at the abbey of San Giovanni Rotondo, lies the body of a Capuchin monk named Padre Pio, a shrine attended by Catholics from all over the world, the very epitome of popular piety.

Catholic monks and Dark Age theologians also did their share of hallu - cinating: «TUBUAS - A member of the group of angels who were removed from the ranks of officially recognized celestial hierarchy in 745 by a council in Rome under Pope Zachary.

Of course, that is a habit that Islam originally copied from the recitation of the Divine Office by priests and monks.

It was from Gregory's closest circle of fellow monks, however, that the first missionaries to England shortly thereafter came, led by Augustine, Gregory's close friend from St. Andrew, who became the first bishop of Canterbury and the principal «Apostle to the English.»

Scholars now recognize Calvin as above all else a teacher who sought to open the Word of God in scripture to the common people from whom, Calvin claimed, the Bible had been withheld by the scholastics, monks and priests of the Roman church.

Jesus referred him to the classes of those who customarily didn't want to marry or couldn't marry - monks (for the sake of the kingdom of heaven - men damaged by the practice of making eunuchs for use as governmental servants (Egypt generally) and the class of people who «from their mother's womb «are not suited (for women?)

«And this is why our holy founder wished the superiors to test their monks somewhat as God tested Abraham, and to put their poverty and their obedience to trial, that by this means they may become acquainted with the degree of their virtue, and gain a chance to make ever farther progress in perfection,... making the one move out of his room when he finds it comfortable and is attached to it; taking away from another a book of which he is fond; or obliging a third to exchange his garment for a worse one.

You do know the bible was written by multiple people, then translated (from 3 different languages) and copied by hand by monks for hundreds of years, right?

For I remember very well, later... I told you that I had been called by terrors from heaven and that I did not become a monk of my own free will and desire, still less to gain any human satisfaction but that I was walled in by the terror and agony of sudden death and forced by necessity to take the vow.

«49 He explains it by the fact that the monks were recruited from all classes of people and that they were acquainted with a wide range of story material, folklore, legend, etc., which they sought when converted to Buddhism to make use of for Buddhist purposes.

The Eastern churches, in part, solved the latent conflict between the clergy of the world and the monks by recruiting their higher clergy from the monasteries.

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.

Some sources speculate that the pimentón tradition in La Vera was started by another group of monks from the Yuste Monastery in Caceres in the sixteenth century.

José Guerra, writing in «Foods from Spain News,» speculates that monks at the Monastery of Guadalupe in Extremadura were the first Europeans to discover the flavor — and heat — of chiles by crushing them and adding them to their soups.

So many of them... meats that are made there, these vegan meats, are like age - old recipes by monks and Buddhists that come from Taiwan.

Harvested from the tencha leaf, matcha used to be honored by Buddhist monks for its ability to enhance both concentration and metabolic functions.

Although much less research exists on monk fruit and its components, preliminary studies show promise for improving insulin signaling by protecting the pancreatic insulin - releasing cells from oxidative stress (3, 4).

Christopher Columbus brought chile peppers and their seeds back from the New World in 1493, and they were grown mostly by monks in monasteries.

V.E.P. Chartreuse Verte, a secret recipe developed by monks in 1605, is a bright green digestif made from over 130 different plants, herbs, and spices.

By counting the proportions of these traits in several generations of pea plants, the inquisitive monk concluded that these features must derive from pairs of what we now call genes, which he discovered were randomly divided between offspring.

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.

Among the many curiosities depicted are a village built entirely from whale bones and a stupefied, beached fin whale straddled by 15 inquisitive monks.

By studying the skeletons of farmers, peasants, monks, and nobles, paleopathologists hope to find out what diseases killed people from medieval times until the present — and how their overall health fluctuated during famine, war, climate change, and other challenges.

The word «cappuccino» comes from the similarity of the drink in color to the robes worn by Capuchin monks.

The astonishing - white World Peace Temple is one of the most historic Buddhist temples in Nepal, built by Buddhist Monks from the Japanese Nipponzan Myohoji organization.

This journey has taken him to the far reaches of the world, from remote Himalayan ashrams, to his initiation by a master monk in a sacred Sak - Yant ceremony in the North East of Thailand.

Design 5: This dress was actually from a previous collection inspired by the saffron - color ropes worn by monks in the tranquil town of Luang Prabang, Lao.

A monk (/ m ʌ ŋ k /, from Greek: μοναχός, monachos, single, solitary and Latin monachus) is a person who practices religious asceticism by

When Sammy's auto swerves off the road, he wakes up in a monastery, having been removed from the wreckage by sensitive, Shakespeare - quoting, 7» 7» - tall giant, Max (pro basketball player Gheorghe Muresan), a ward of the monks who works as a monastery caretaker.

That backfired, being that the giants were evil, and the monks were forced to forge a crown out of a giant's heart, which when worn by their human king, forced automatic servitude from the beasts.

Other films from Cannes making their US debut at Telluride include the Russian «Loveless,» directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev, about an unhappy couple searching for their son, and winner of Cannes» Jury Prize; «A Man of Integrity,» by Mohammad Rasoulof, set in corrupt Iranian society, which won the Grand Prize of the Un Certain Regard section; «The Rider,» by Chloe Zhao, about a badly injured young South Dakotan rodeo rider, which won the top prize, the Art Cinema Award, of the Director's Fortnight; «Tesnota (Closeness),» about a Jewish family forced to try to ransom their son and his new bride, also in Un Certain Regard, by Kantemir Balagov; and Barbet Schroeder's documentary about a Buddhist monk, «Le venerable W.»

Fast forward 60 years later, where in the United States, the monk finds himself still on the run from Strucker and his henchmen, led by Strucker's daughter, Nina.

From its very conception, BULLETPROOF MONK is all wrong, only to be compounded by some very bad dialogue from screenwriters Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, and it will come as no surprise to anyone who views this that TALES FROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHT would be their biggest claim to fame in film to dFrom its very conception, BULLETPROOF MONK is all wrong, only to be compounded by some very bad dialogue from screenwriters Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, and it will come as no surprise to anyone who views this that TALES FROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHT would be their biggest claim to fame in film to dFrom its very conception, BULLETPROOF MONK is all wrong, only to be compounded by some very bad dialogue from screenwriters Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, and it will come as no surprise to anyone who views this that TALES FROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHT would be their biggest claim to fame in film to dfrom screenwriters Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, and it will come as no surprise to anyone who views this that TALES FROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHT would be their biggest claim to fame in film to dfrom screenwriters Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, and it will come as no surprise to anyone who views this that TALES FROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHT would be their biggest claim to fame in film to dFROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHT would be their biggest claim to fame in film to dFROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHT would be their biggest claim to fame in film to date.

She is joined by a pair of Force - sensitive monks (Donnie Yen and Jiang Wen) and a sarcastic reprogrammed Imperial robot, K - 2SO (Alan Tudyk), as this motley group tries to verify the message and potentially work even at odds with the Rebel Alliance to save the galaxy from tyranny.

Dragged from her chariot by a mob of fanatical vigilante Christian monks, the revered astronomer was stripped naked, skinned to her bones with sharp oyster shells, stoned and burned alive as possibly the first executed witch in history.

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.

Emotionally powerful and irresistibly page - turning, Escape from the Land of Snows is simultaneously a portrait of the inhabitants of a spiritual nation forced to take up arms in defense of their ideals, and the saga of an initially childlike ruler who at first wore his monk's robes uncomfortably but was ultimately transformed by his escape into the towering figure the world knows today — a charismatic champion of free thinking and universal compassion.

Drawn from the many adult books published during 1995, the following titles have been selected by contributing reviewers Sue - Ellen Beauregard, Karen Simonetti, Mary Marks, Merri Monks, and Candace Smith, along with members of the Booklist Books for Youth editorial staff, as top choices for teenagers» personal reading.

We have gone from the Pope having monks and scribes to people who were lucky enough or rich enough to buy something printed by Gutenberg.

The Dragon Earl by Jade Lee $ 2.84 From the Jacket Copy: At Evelyn Stanton's lavish wedding, the bald - headed Chinese monk striding down the center aisle is shocking.

In the same way that no blind monk is able to figure out the elephant by himself, we need to piece together insights from multiple disciplines to get the full panoramic picture of how financial markets work and why they fail.

We begin from birth with a biosensory stimulation program, followed by a puppy enrichment plan similar to that of the Monks of New Skete.

These wonderful little dogs were developed by the Buddhist monks of isolated monasteries on the mountain tops of remote Tibet, nestled away and hidden from the greater world.

Tigers impounded, abbot on the run, but tourist trap has survived raids before KANCHANABURI, Thailand ---- Thai authorities, assisted by personnel from the Wildlife Friends Foundation of Thailand, on May 30, 2016 began impounding the 137 tigers kept by erstwhile Buddhist monks at the internationally notorious Tiger Temple.