Word: procopius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unionistic Congress of the Roman Catholic Church at St. Procopius Abbey in Lisle. Ill., 125 delegates discussed hopes for the return of all Christians to the Roman Catholic fold-especially those who "left the church as a result of the Eastern schism of 1054." i.e., the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches. In preparation for the day when Roman Catholicism may once again be free to teach and preach in Russia, monks are in training in the Catholic Eastern Rite at Holy Trinity Priory near Pittsburgh, as well as at Fordham and in Rome. The Russian Orthodox Church would have been...
...small island in the Gulf of Aqaba dominating passage from the Red Sea to Israel's new port of Elath, belonged to its captors. To prove Israel's historic claims, Ben-Gurion paused in his rolling Hebrew periods and read out in the original Greek the historian Procopius' 6th century description of the island: "There the Hebrews have lived since ancient times and govern themselves...
...Harold Lamb is an old hand at bridging historical gaps. He once wrote a whole book about so shadowy a figure as Poet Omar Khayyam, and made it sound plausible at that. Now, working his imagination overtime, and with a large assist from Justinian's court historian, Procopius, Author Lamb offers the inside story of "the first notable man and wife of modern history...