Word: peters
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...Married Pope. At least one of Christ's Apostles-St. Peter-had a wife, and as late as 867, a married man became Pope: Adrian II. It was not until the First Lateran Council in 1123 that clerical marriage was clearly outlawed, and even after that priests, bishops and cardinals continued to skirt the rule by taking mistresses. Alexander VI fathered at least four children before he became Pope in 1492. French Historian Henri Daniel-Rops estimated that in 15th century Burgundy, half the children born out of wedlock were fathered by clerics...
...officers are James T. Hill '67 of Quincy House, President; Joseph N. Erlanger '67 of Quincy House, Vice-President; Peter C. Salerno '68, Treasurer; and George O. Klemp Jr. '68 of Quincy House and Martin J. Thorpe '68 of Kirkland House, members of the Board. Elaine R. Savitsky '68 of Moors Hall will be Clerk of the WHRB Corporation...
Harvard's strongest team showing was a fourth place in the giant slalom. Greg Peters. Steve Blodgett, Peter Gagarin and Bear Barnes were closely bunhced from 11th to 19th for the Crimson...
...Peter Pelham, a relatively unknown Boston mezzotint engraver and portrait painter, died in 1751, leaving his studio to his thirteen-year-old stepson. In the course of the next two years, that studio studio provided the nutriment for what became one of the richest and most vital careers in the history American painting. Pelham's stepson was John Singleton Copley, and his career is commemorated this year a major retrospective exhibition of his work. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Washington's National Gallery, and the Metropolitan Museum of New York have gathered 103 oils, pastels, minatures, and drawing (including...
...fifteen, Copley embarked on his artistic career with a mezzotint portrait of the Reverend William Welsteed, the recently deceased minister of Boston's New Brick Church. The similarity between this portrait and Peter Pelham's 1743 mezzotint of the Reverend Mr. William Cooper is more than a stylistic one. Copley actually took the original Pelham plate and altered the features to fit the new commission...