Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chaplain at the Pen. In fact, I was never in it before, having come to Colorado in September of this year. I am Chaplain at Holy Cross Abbey, and teach Psychology and English. I have been criticised for not going in this Cellhouse and persuading them to give up. Under the circumstances, that was quite impossible. I was also dressed for golf, and was on my way to the Club, when a young lady told me her Daddy was trapped by the convicts within the Pen. "Greater love hath no man, than a readiness to lay down his life...
...exhibit at the Fogg Museum this week are casts of a part of a series of stone capitals, which, set upon marble shafts, supported the apae and ambulatory of the Abbey Church of Cluny in Burgundy. They were preserved at the time of destruction of the Abbey Church, and are now in the Municipal Museum at Cluny...
...capitals were one of the most interesting parts of the sculptured decoration of the great Abbey Church of Cluny and have been the centre of an archeological controversy with regard to their dating. It now appears from internal evidence and from texts that they were carved during the early years of the construction of the building, that is, after 1088, when the work was begun, and before 1095 when the first dedication, by Pope Urban II, occurred. Originally they had square impost blocks with a spreading moulding, the lower corners of which were laid immediately above the upper corners...
...casts are the property of the Fogg Museum but were made in connection with studies and excavations at the site of the Abbey Church which have been undertaken by Mediaeval Academy of America...
...delighted. In the end Leopold married the lady of his choice and Frances got his equerry, Lord Brooke ("Brookie"). ". . . Owing to an ill-timed attack of measles our wedding did not come off until the following April." With trumpet's clap and liturgy they were wedded in Westminster Abbey, surrounded by people with fairy-book names...