Sentences with phrase «run by the monks»

It swept into Tuscany in the 12th century, when four leprosariums sprang up in the area, including one run by the monks.

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Headspace was founded in 2010 as a meditation event business run by cofounders Pierson, a former marketing executive whose clients included body - spray purveyor Axe, and Andy Puddicombe, a Buddhist monk.

Then, the story runs, riding abroad in his chariot, he was challenged by four sights: «a decrepit old man, broken - toothed, grayhaired»; «a diseased man,» repulsive with running sores; a dead man; and a holy monk who had renounced the world.

Also known as luo han guo, which means monk fruit in Chinese — it is said to have been first discovered and used by Chinese monks in the Guilin region where Layn is headquartered - the low calorie, natural sweetener could give stevia a run for its money.

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.

One early scene features a narrator reciting the biblical story of the flood as water cascades around a church, even running over a stack of books held by monks.

Saint Benedict's Preparatory School, a high school in Newark, New Jersey, run by the Benedictine monks of Newark Abbey, has recorded a near 100 percent college - acceptance rate for their predominantly African American and Latino young men — a rate that soars well above the average for the city.

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.

+1 - 1 Mount Athos is a secretive, autonomist, theocratic region in a pocket of Greece, ran by Greek Orthodox monks, for...

Now Hohenpeissenberg is given special status by GISS (I guess due to its length and the fact that the monks running it knew that temperatures needed to measured at the same time of day unlike most climate temperature data adjusters today.