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During the later Middle Ages, Franciscans established a famed theological epigram: Potuit, decuit, ergo fecit-God could do it; it was fitting that He should do it; therefore He actually did it, i.e., keep Mary free of sin. These traditions were embodied in the dogma of the Immaculate Conception (1854), which holds that God "exempted" Mary from the hereditary stain of original sin by making her immaculate at the moment of her conception in the womb of St. Anne, her mother. Mary was thus preserved free of all sin in anticipation of her role as the Mother of God. Almost...
...gave himself a local anesthetic, proceeded to operate. He chatted and joked with the nurses as he cut, sponged and sutured for 1 hr. 45 min. By that time he was drowsy, let Dr. Cleveland make the final two or three stitches, tattoo the dots which mean Kane fecit...
...Rembrandt fecit, i. e., Rembrandt made...
...when the job is done a bronze plaque may be erected in the Central Office of the system, bearing the words: "William Sproule Fecit...
...first wife, Saskia van Uylenburg. There are also the Man with a Beard and the Portrait of a Man, of the Marquand collection, the Oriental, given by Mr. Vanderbilt, and two portraits lent by J. P. Morgan. Practically all of these are signed " Rembrandt f." (abbreviation for fecit-made), with the dates, ranging from 1633 to 1665. Most of them were listed by Dr. Wilhelm Bode, famed Berlin critic and director of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, in his exhaustive catalogue of Rembrandt's works...