Word: augustinian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the frost-bleared windows of the St. Bernard hospice,* 8,000 feet up in the Great St. Bernard Pass between Switzerland and Italy, the Augustinian canons and their servants on duty there last week watched a train of sleds zigzag its way up the pass from the Swiss side. Snow was deep; wind blistering. None, remarked the canons, but Americans with their quaint inquisitiveness would make such a trip in such weather. Forthwith they sent servants to heat liquids. Other servants they dispatched to assemble the St. Bernard dogs, those great spaniels bred to retrieve humans from the Alpine...
...favored ones are Mgr. Raymond Rouleau, Archbishop of Quebec (Dominican) ; Mgr. Pedro Sigura y Saenz, Archbishop of Toledo, Spain (Augustinian); Mgr. Alexis Henry Lepicier, Titular Bishop of Tarsus in Asia Minor (Servite); Mgr. Henry Charles Binet, Archbishop of Besancon, France...
...Scripture," said Thomas a Kempis sought to be read in the spirit in which it was written." This statement taken from the writings of an Augustinian monk holds true today as much as it ever did in the fifteenth century...
...dividing these Laws into Ten have been a bitter problem. Jews have one method (the Talmudic) ; Reformed (Calvinistic) churches and the Orthodox Eastern Church another (the Philonic, after Phile Judaeus, 20 B. C. to 54 A. D.) ; and the Church of Rome and the Lutherans a third (the Augustinian, after St. Augustine...
...fine monuments dating from the thirteenth century and illustrating the transition from the Romanesque to the Gothic period. The monuments which have been added to the group of similar status already in the Museum, are the figures of Abraham and Melchisedec from the Transept of the former Augustinian Church of Wechselburg in Saxony. Both of these figures, mediaeval symbols of secular and ecclesiastical authority, are remarkable examples of human characterization. Abraham is represented as wielding the sword against the hostile powers of the world, while Melchisedec is shown carrying a cup of libation for spiritual evils. Placed against the same...