Word: benedict
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Entitled "The Loyolas and The Cabots," the book is by Catherine Goddard Clarke, President and instructor of Theological History at St. Benedict Center. Father Feeney is Chaplain at the Center...
...Gregory (not to be confused with 16 Popes of that name) first refused, then accepted, the bishopric of Sasima. Later he took over his father's duties as Bishop of Nazianzus in Asia Minor, but he never accepted formal installation in that see. In 1808 the Pope appointed Benedict Flaget, a refugee from the French Revolution, as Bishop of Bardstown, Ky. Flaget declined, went to Europe for advice, was greeted by a friend with the words: "My lord, you should be in your diocese." Flaget came back to the US., accepted the post...
...family of six sons-and a daughter, Forrest Percival Sherman was born to the headmaster of a small school in Reeds Ferry, N.H. (pop. 265) and to a mother whose forebears were John and Priscilla Alden. Shermans had fought with the colonists against the Dutch, gone with Benedict Arnold to Quebec...
...GASTON BENEDICT...
...Binger had said that hiding the stolen documents in a pumpkin was bizarre behavior. Was it bizarre for Benedict Arnold, when he sold out West Point to the British, to hide the plans in Major Andre's shoe? "No," said the doctor. Was it bizarre for Moses' mother to hide him in the bulrushes? "She could scarcely put him in a safety-deposit box," said the doctor brightly...