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...SERNIN BASILICA, the biggest and most beautiful Romanesque church in southern France; the Musée des Augustins, a 14th century convent and cloister with magnificent Gothic and Romanesque sculpture; the Fondation Bemberg collection, housed in the 16th century Hôtel d'Assézat, has paintings from the Renaissance to the 20th century; the church and cloister of Les Jacobins, founded by St. Dominic in 1340, is famed for its spectacular 28-m "palm tree"; pillar, fanning out into 22 vaulting arches; and the Musée St. Raymond, with its stunning ancient Roman sculpture...
...everything. Even the most saintly among us is moved by a complex stew of motives, some admirable and some less so, some conscious and some unconscious. The sin of pride, for example, helps seduce many into goodness. Fear of real life is part of what tempts some into the cloister. And for a small fraction of those youth-serving millions, sexual longing plays a role...
Many families return year after year to celebrate an elegant Southern Christmas at the Cloister at Sea Island, Ga. The resort, located on a 5-mile-long island that was once a Native American fishing ground, has been owned and operated by the same family since it opened in 1928. Traditions abound: there is a huge tree, a gingerbread house, caroling and sing-alongs, ballroom dances, a yule-log ceremony, an eggnog party and other holiday feasts. The children welcome Santa and his Mrs., who arrive in a sleigh jeep, to their own Christmas Eve party...
There are also lots of sports, particularly golf. The resort is nationally recognized for its two golf courses and 25 tennis courts, as well as its spa and food. During Christmas week, the Cloister offers several packages for the sporting family: a pro-am and parent-child golf tournaments; a junior golf school and clinics; and the Sea Island Shooting School for skeet, trap, sporting clay and archery. Prices are reasonable because rates include all meals and many activities--and those rates don't go up if you bring the kids www.seaisland.com...
...Age” producers of “designer” wines from the various sub-regions. Alas, I was quite foolish. But all was not lost. This faux pas is a lesson for every Harvard man: woe to he who deigns to venture outside the delightful Yard cloister that shields him from the unseemly. Notwithstanding my minor indiscretion, it was a chance to, eyes shut, luxuriate in the Tuscan bliss that each glass invariably affords. One can only be so happy as to have Chianti pursue the more remote and nebulous regions of the palate...