Word: augustinian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold, calm February night in 1865, the members of a little science society gathered in the town of Brünn, Austria, to hear a paper on inheritance in plants by an Augustinian monk from the nearby monastery. Gregor Johann Mendel wore a long, black coat and his trousers were tucked into his high boots. He was a plump, genial man with bright, blue eyes...
...Manhattan arrived Rev. Lorenzo M. Spirale, treasurer of the Catholic Augustinian Order, sent by Benito Mussolini to preach good citizenship to young U. S.-Italians...
Brother John Tikytt (or Tikyll), Prior of the Augustinian Monastery of Wyrkesopp, England, was engaged, about the year 1310, in limning a psalter. He finished 90 pages, with elaborate titles in gold and colors for each psalm, a miniature for each page, and a small painting at the bottom of each column of text. Then after sketching in his decorations for 23 more pages, this skillful illuminator died under circumstances unknown to history...
...decreed that it should stand as a haven for all travelers. Several years later he founded another hospice, in the Little St. Bernard pass which runs from Bourg St. Maurice to Aosta. During a visit to Rome, he petitioned the Pope to assign the charge to the Augustinian monks. Today there are about 40 St. Bernard brothers, some at the Great Pass, some at the Little Pass, some in neighboring parishes...