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...simple meals were prepared by himself over a small open stove, which served at once for heat and cookery. Eating, however, was always treated as a subordinate and incidental business, deserving no fixed time, no dishes, nor the setting of a table. The peasants of the East, the monks of Southern monasteries, live chiefly on bread and fruit, relished with a little wine; and Sophocles, in spite of Cambridge and America, was to the last a peasant and a monk. Such simple nutriments best fitted his constitution, for "they found their acquaintance there...
...Griffin" he published various Latin documents two of which were "spurious, very spurious, absolutely spurious." Scholar that he was, his critical sense was temporarily submerged by an enthusiasm caught from the great humanists of his period. Some time later he abandoned both science and the humanities to play the monk at the Abbey of Saint-Maur-des-Fosses, a Paradise, he said, of healthfulness, amenity, serenity, delight and all honest pleasures of agriculture and rustic life. . . . But Rabelais could not remain in a Paradise, any more than Eve; like her he was too full of curiosity. Chastised for heresy...
Down the Pincian Hill with cassock billowing behind him fled the holy one, now thoroughly alarmed. He was only a humble Benedictine monk, but so strongly did he resemble Pius XI that, unconvinced by his protests, one of the children reverently picked up and treasured the little breviary lying on the ground. In humble Roman homes it is now fully believed that the Pope's first step into the great world since his "liberation," was in the simple quality and disguise of a lowly monk and for the gentle purpose of dozing on a park bench...
...crowd of mumbling peasants fills a convent courtyard and hails, when whipped by his henchman, the man they do not want for Tsar. The scene changes and in his cell, by the feeble light of a lamp, a monk sits writing the history of Muscovy, how a Tsar's son has been killed and his murderer has taken the throne. Again a change; the Kremlin bells are ringing and across the square that separates the Cathedrals of the Assumption and the Archangels there files a procession ?deacons, sons of boyars, boyars and the new Tsar himself. Gloria! Gloria...
...oaken door of the Franciscan monastery at Gorheim, in the principality of Hohenzollern, faltered one morning a timid knock. The monk who answered found a cringing wretch there, broken with years of suffering: He identified himself as a onetime Colonel of the Kaiser's armies, personal friend of the Crown Prince, who had led his regiment gallantly to France. But a sense of guilt for his part in war obsessed him, and now he sought to make penitential amends, following the example of the gentle St. Francis of Assisi...