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Constellation fought his way across the mountaintops toward Geneva with 40 Pakistani seamen bound for England to man the newly launched freighter Queen City. A monk in the lofty monastery of St. Bernard thought he heard a noise. Two days later the Constellation's wreckage was sighted on the 15,781-foot peak of Mont Blanc by a pilot in a sport plane...
...Usuard, a Benedictine monk, wrote his Martyrology in the 9th Century, at the instigation of Charles the Bald. * Last such definition, in 1854: the dogma of Mary's Immaculate Conception (that she was conceived free of original sin). † An official papal document named for the lead seal, or bulla, which papal and royal documents carried in the early Middle Ages...
...slight Englishman with penetrating eyes and close-cropped, greying hair is hard at work this week lecturing and conducting a retreat at Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y. Few of Hobart's students have ever before seen anything quite like Dom Gregory Dix. For one thing, he is a monk of the Benedictine order in the Church of England.* For another, he is a scholar who began specializing in military diplomacy and became one of the world's leading experts on Christian liturgy...
...After three years, desperately ill of dysentery, he returned, "leaving a large part of my insides in Africa," to face what seemed bound to be like a life of invalidism. He decided to devote his life to studying the origins of the Christian Church. In 1940 he became a monk, is now prior of Nashdom Abbey in Buckinghamshire. His 764-page Shape of the Liturgy won him an international reputation...
...monk's cowl did not keep out the demon of despair, says Biographer Bainton, and the despair was finally defined: Luther had begun to doubt the goodness of God. "I wished I had never been created. Love God? I hated Him!" The Devil visited Luther by night, and the monk-priest never doubted that he was real. In the dark night of his own soul, Luther found his own convictions: the whole nature of man is corrupt; man must be born again to be saved...