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...resolution was made, Cavanagh had little trouble deciding where to go: the Pontificio Collegio Beda in Rome, only major Roman Catholic seminary specializing in late vocations.* Rooted deep in the Anglican upheavals of the mid-19th century, when many Anglicans converted to Roman Catholicism and some became priests, St. Bede's was established in 1897 by Pope Leo XIII, who named it for the English scholar, the Venerable Bede, one of his favorites, and always called it "my college." From the beginning, the problems of training older, mature men were far different from the problems of instructing young seminarians...
...Bede's graduate himself. "It has been found that an older man can work hard for a short time, whereas if he had to face a longer period of study, he would become stale and discouraged...
...Bede's crams its courses into four years instead of the regular seminary...
...According to the English chronicler Bede (circa A.D. 672-735), Caedmon was an illiterate herdsman who became the first English Christian poet, after receiving a divine call in a dream...
...American premiere fully satisfies all the hopes that theatre news from Britain has excited in followers of avant-grade drama. It is one of those plays about which people disagree, disagree even as to what it is about. I would suggest that perhaps Simpson intends to supplement the venerable Bede, Trevelyan, Thornton Wilder, and The Times, as historian of Church, England, mankind, and the times. Early in the play (and in a manner reminiscent of some of Our Town's devices) he calls our attention to the large meaning he wants his play to have (and the correspondingly high standards...