Sentences with phrase «monk named»

The last are probably the most relevant to the new paintings, since they evince the love of vintage books that led Polke to his inspiration: a treatise on optics by a 17th - century monk named Johann Zahn.

The story focused on a monk named Liu Kang and his journey to save Earth from the evil sorcerer Shang Tsung.

A monk named Hugh is said to haunt areas of the castle like the banquet room and dungeon bar, reportedly appearing to visitors and staff and sometimes giving prophecies.

In preparation, he has been trained in the ways of the kung fu wandering warriors by a wise monk named Atami, but when Atami is captured by the enemy Luka must begin his own journey to become the warrior and leader he is destined to be.

Luka's caretaker, a wise monk named Atami, is determined to keep Luka alive so the prophecy can be fulfilled and to train Luka in the ways of the kung fu wandering warriors.

At the start of Code, a mysterious monk named Silas (Paul Bettany) murders museum curator Jacques Sauniere (Jean - Pierre Marielle) in the Louvre.

He is confronted by a legendary Shaolin monk named Wong Jack Man, played by Yu Xia, who is upset that he is sullying the art and spirituality of kung fu.

On 25 June 1178, five eyewitnesses visited a Canterbury monk named Gervase, claiming to have seen the crescent moon «spewing out fire, hot coals, and sparks.»

In 605 a.d. a Buddhist monk named Jingwan decided that the only way to save the scriptures of his faith from destruction at the hands of hostile Chinese emperors was to chisel them in stone.

Some hungry soul (many credit a monk named Johann du Putzxe) came up with the idea of quickly cooking pieces of meat in pots of hot oil that were set - up in the vineyards.

In the year A. D. 535, a monk named Cosmas1 wrote a book which he entitled, Christian Topography.

It was, however, interpreted by a monk named William of Newcastle to mean that yearly penitential duty is incumbent only on hermaphrodites.

Plus, as I've already mentioned, a monk named Calcidius espoused this view in the 5th century and was not branded a heretic for doing so.

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.

Archdeacon Militz of Kromeriz and an ascetic monk named Jean de Roquetaillade both said it would be around 1365CE.

Not exact matches

The Ancient Greeks, Russians, Zen Vajrayana Monks, Native Americans, Japanese Shinto Monks (they call it «Misogi ``, or spirit cleansing) and Spartan Soldiers were well aware of the benefits of cold water, and in 18th century the modern revival of cold water treatments was re-discovered in Germany under the new name «Hydrotherapy».

To get a sense of Russian religious life, consider the story of the «imiaslavtsy» (Name - Glorifiers), a group of monks and theologians who accepted the discovery of the starets (elder) Ilarion that «in the Name of God, God Himself is present.»

When the townspeople saw two versions of the monk and the woman — the real ones free and the disguised devils in fetters — they concluded that demons had faked the crimes in order to blacken the names of the pious.

Gregory, later named «the Great,» who had been caught up in the first flush of the Benedictine movement and had devoted his inherited wealth to the poor and the Church, sent the famous contingent of Roman monk - missionaries to Britain.

What makes you think that a monk who wrote the bible 1000 years ago (when most people were illiterate) knows anything more about a man named Jesus who lived 2000 years than we do today, when we all can't even agree on where President Obama came from today?

For example, a number of nomad Arabs in the valley of the Euphrates accepted Christianity because they were attracted to the Christian faith by the power which the Christian monks and hermits exercised over the evil spirits in the name of Jesus.»

Many Christians did not agree with this decision, and in 457 «Jerusalem was occupied by an army of monks [where] in the name of the one incarnate nature, they pillaged, they burnt, they murdered; the Sepulchre of Christ was defiled with blood.»

In a passage in Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, one monk furiously upbraids another one for presuming to think that Christ ever laughed.

The Conferences takes the form of extended interviews with individual monks who are named and whose words are sometimes prefaced by personal anecdotes.

Look at the Muslims that blow their selves up in the name of religion or the Buddhist monks that set themselves on fire in the name of religion.

The scientific name for monk fruit, Siraitia grosvenorii, is an ode to Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, the former president of the National Geographic Society (NGS).

«If it be assumed that the Monks took their name from the region in France in which they settled in the Eleventh Century, it still remains true that it became peculiarly their designation.

After this morning's jog, he will have lunchwith Steve Wynn, whose name is on the side of the hotel in which we're staying, and an orange - robed Tibetan monk whom Armstrong later will describe as the «Dalai Lama's assistant.»

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.

Did the meteoroid that crashed into the backside of the moon, leaving behind a 22 - kilometer - wide crater named Giordano Bruno, cause the peculiar fountain of moonlight reported by a 12th century monk, as some researchers claim?

(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.)

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.

The video was shot on the island of Hawaii, and features a recently - weaned monk seal pup, named Manu`iwa by locals.

Similar to a nun or monk, swamis take a different name and are initiated into mantras that emphasize redirecting energy to the Divine and away from the illusions of the world.

They are sweetened with all natural monk fruit, and these blends are so unbelievably yummy that we had to name them «shakes!»

Monk fruit extract is a popular sweetener in China and Thailand, where it's also considered traditional medicine — in fact, monk fruit gets its name because Chinese monks used to be the main ones who grew the plants.

Also noteworthy, in the category of cinema ruled by cultural concerns and actual political events, was Carlos (d. Olivier Assayas), which kept a packed auditorium of critics in their seats for over five hours with a glossy, but intelligent action film version of the 1970s exploits of a terrorist born Illich Ramirez Sanchez, but known internationally as the Jackal, also by the code name Carlos; and Des Hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois), a film, elegantly minimalist in design, based on a real - life encounter between Algerian fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and a community of ascetic Christian monks.

After years spent working on several undercooked drafts of the story — the most infamous involving a wooden planet home to a sect of space monks — Ripley's further adventures battling the xenomorph eventually got the greenlight with then first - time director Fincher, having made his name on music videos, became attached to the project.

A whimsical concoction as pretty as a wedding cake, a multi-tiered tale, within a tale, within a tale, the GRAND and very PINK Hotel Budapest is presided over by one Gustave H., (Ralph Fiennes), the hotel's ultra-refined concierge, and involves a wide - eyed lobby boy named «Zero,» Tilda Swinton as a wealthy octogenarian who's «dynamite in the sack,» a family squabble over inheritance, a priceless and definitely kitschy piece of Renaissance art, a greedy evil son (Adrien Brody), a knucklebound henchman with a frightening underbite (Willem Dafoe), a lanky lawyer (Jeff Goldblum) and his soon to be airborn Persian cat, monks on skis, cliff - hanging climaxes, and plotting pastry chefs!

Some names associated with this type of training were William Koehler, Monks of New Skete, Barbara Woodhouse.

Some claim that the breed got its name after the world - famous Chartreuse liquors made by these monks.

The Saint Bernard, named for the monk St. Bernard de Menthon who is believed to have founded the breed, has been used as a search and rescue dog in the Alpine pass between Italy and Switzerland since the 1700's.

The breed was refined by the monks of St. Hubert in Belgium, thus the common names St. Hubert Hound and Chien de Saint - Hubert.

This, as the name suggests, is a monk who is on display in his mummified state inside a glass enclosure.

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.

It was at about this time that «Cell» residences were built for the region's monks, and it was from these lakeside dwellings that the town takes its name.

In time, these monasteries came to be officially removed, but still, in the twelfth century, a group of thirty - one nuns nicknamed tuquinegras lived with a large number of monks, men who were supposed to protect and who were known by the name of milites.

FOR GENERATIONS, HAWAIIANS HAVE CALLED THE MONK SEAL «īlioholoikauaua, or «dog running in the rough sea,» a name this critically endangered marine mammal has certainly earned.

The word of Goa Gajah is anticipated coming from the word of Lwa Gajah, the name of Buddhist Temple or hermitage for Buddhist monk.