Word: melchor
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Perhaps the most moving of these -- a Spanish equivalent, in its effort to embody intellect, of David's portrait of the Lavoisiers -- is his 1798 portrait of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, the outstanding thinker of the Spanish Enlightenment, a much-exiled man who briefly held state office as the Minister of Religion and Justice under Carlos IV. Goya shows him at an ornate desk in the Madrid palace, lost in melancholy thought amid props that seem out of scale with his modesty...
Asked whether she felt guilty about eating during the fast, Nyria Melchor '88, who had pizza at Cafe Avventura said, "I felt more hungry than guilty...
...nothing else, the Pope's visit will serve to regularize a number of informal liaisons among Filipino believers. Father Melchor Dano, pastor of a parish in Tondo, last month performed a mass wedding for 36 couples who had been living in sin. He followed that with a mass baptism for their children-so that all concerned could greet the Pope as bona fide Catholics...