Word: romanus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...designed to teach doctrine to an illiterate public as well as to entertain-were the precursors of the medieval miracle plays. Some of the old canticles contain poetry that still has power to evoke the mystery and miracle of Christmas, as for example the 5th century Contacio of St. Romanus of Emesa in which the Wise Men are invited to see for themselves the "rich poverty...
...looked on Rome as his home and the Eastern peoples as unsatisfactory foreigners. During a theological controversy, he once wrote with indignation: "A new expression . . . is demanded ... by these peasants of me, a man of Rome!" In 396, with the barbarians pressing in on all sides, Jerome sadly wrote: "Romanus orbis ruit [the world of Rome is destroyed]." In 416 the troubles of the times were brought to his doorstep. A band of Pelagian heretics, whom he had recently attacked in his writings, assaulted and wrecked his monastery. Jerome spent three or four years in refuge nearby. Then, weary with...
...Thus ignoring nine other Michaels among his putative imperial ancestors, including Michael III (the Drunkard) and Michael IV (the Tickler). Michael IV was valet to the Emperor Romanus, who used to call Michael in to tickle the soles of his feet. Romanus' wife, the Empress Zoe, fell in love with Michael, poisoned Romanus, married tickling Michael and made him Emperor, while Michael's brother, John the Eunuch, ran the country as premier. Michael got sick, locked himself in a room and died refusing to see the lovelorn Zoe. John the Eunuch went on running the country...