Word: brethrens
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With cries of "Clear out the Jews" thousands of young men, belonging to the violently anti-Semite Hackenkreutzer (Swastika) organization, broke through the police cordons, began what they sportively called a "Jew hunt." Anti-Zionist Jews supported-"Christian Vienna" in its attempt to chasten their brethren...
...lungs crushed by a lorry, his veins running morphine, hung in bandages, the Christ hung upon an alabaster crucifix. On the sixth day, the curtains of the niche opened to the sick man, Christ's wounds bled miraculously and Eli was recruited, another carpenter, to strengthen his brethren...
...special devil by the name of Tittivillus frequented the monasteries of the Middle Ages. It was his task to gather in a bag the dropped syllables and mumbled words and omitted words and bad grammar of the brethren, as they took part in the service, and deliver them to the father of evil. On one occasion, he told a holy abbot that he brought his master each day a thousand bags full of 'failings and of negligences and of syllables and words' that were done or undone in the abbot's order in the course of their...
...addition to the extra-mural interests and activities which distracted the head of the house, there came to be a special source of distraction affecting the brethren. In earlier times, in the golden age of monasteries, only those with a calling or even a genius for monastic life entered religious houses. . . . But in time men came to take up monastic life for other reasons. . . . It has been said that in the later Middle Ages men began to enter monasteries "as a profession". Thus many came to religious houses who were unsuited to the life and lowered its standards. They...
...only was there a relaxing influence in the invasion of the monasteries by large numbers whose primary purposes were different from those for which the houses had been founded, but along with the internal worldliness went more and more contact of the brethren with the world without, which distracted from the real work of the foundation and in the end defeated their purposes...