Sentences with phrase «grown in monastery»

When Columbus brought chile peppers to Europe from the Caribbean after his second voyage in 1493, they were first grown in monastery gardens in Spain and Portugual as curiosities.

This theory agrees with that of food historians, who believe that chiles initially were grown in monasteries and the seeds were spread throughout Spain and Europe first by traveling monks and then by Spanish and Portuguese traders, who introduced them into Africa, India, and Asia.

Not exact matches

For instance, Chapter 15 on the laity begins with a broad discussion about how the Church grew, covering the establishment of monasteries and convents, Mass in Latin, the removal of rood screens and the history of the Reformation; while Chapter 16, on Our Lady, goes through the titles given to her, in order to answer criticisms that these titles and honours can not be supported by Scripture.

They live in their monasteries praying, studying bible, growing plants and making everything they need and selling some of those to buy things they can not make.

A growing range of ministries claim to be»em erging church» including: youth church, prayer monasteries, church in an office, pub or coffee shop.

He grew up in a theological boot - camp: years of monastery training and intensive study of the Bible.

Crossan told me had a «magnificent» education growing up in Ireland and entering the monastery as a teenager.

A converted church in a corrupt civilization withdraws to its upper rooms, into monasteries and conventicles; it issues forth from these in the aggressive evangelism of apostles, monks and friars, circuit riders and missionaries; it relaxes its rigorism as it discerns signs of repentance and faith; it enters into inevitable alliance with converted emperors and governors, philosophers and artists, merchants and entrepreneurs, and begins to live at peace in the culture they produce under the stimulus of their faith; when faith loses its force, as generation follows generation, discipline is relaxed, repentance grows formal, corruption enters with idolatry, and the church, tied to the culture which it sponsored, suffers corruption with it.

He recalled the solid achievements which were now to be seen in Ernestine Saxony, the results of the Visitation, of the preaching of a theology of faith and the circulation of the Little Catechism, and the German New Testament: «The young people, both boys and girls, grow up so well instructed in the Catechism and the Scriptures that I am deeply moved when I see that young boys and girls can pray, believe, and speak more of God and Christ than they ever could in the monasteries, foundations, and schools of bygone days, or even of our day.

In Europe it was the monasteries which kept alive what learning there was in the Dark Ages, and as the Middle Ages emerged, there grew out of these the first of the great European universitieIn Europe it was the monasteries which kept alive what learning there was in the Dark Ages, and as the Middle Ages emerged, there grew out of these the first of the great European universitiein the Dark Ages, and as the Middle Ages emerged, there grew out of these the first of the great European universities.

With rare exceptions, as they grew older monasteries lost the initial dedication which had brought them into existence and in their common life became comfortable and routine or worse.

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

Years after they grew up together in an orphanage, Alina (Cristina Flutur) visits her friend Voichita (Cosmina Stratan) in the monastery where she now lives.

Brendan, a young monk growing up in a monastery dominated by fear of Viking invasion, longs to become a scribe and help the new monk in town write his Book.

When Bede the Venerable was living at the monastery in Jarrow in Northumbria they were growing grapes for wine.

Eventually your kids grow up, your obnoxious brother - in - law will join a monastery and your parents will die.