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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...