Word: subiaco
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...mountain cave near Subiaco, Italy, a tall, white-haired Englishman with gentle eyes stood in silent prayer. The place was Sacro Speco, where, tradition says, St. Benedict spent years as an anchorite. The Englishman was Historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee, and (aloofly in the third person) he now describes what he felt there three years ago: "Here was the primal germ of Western Christendom; and, as the pilgrim read . . . the names of all the lands, stretching away to the ends of the Earth, that had been evangelized by a spiritual impetus issuing from this hallowed spot, he prayed that the spirit...
...Anticoli Corrado, near Subiaco, U. S. pastors distributed Bibles to the populace. The parish priest got his flock to give them up, made of them a big bonfire...
...nighttime in the Benedictine monastery at Subiaco, Ark. The 40 monks slept soundly in their dormitory on the conventional quadrangle. Across the yard were the college classrooms, and sleeping quarters for visitors. Adjacent was the library with manuscripts dating back to the 5th century. Adjacent on the opposite side was the student dormitory where 150 boys slept...
...Subiaco is one of the 18 Benedictine abbeys in the U. S. Father Wolfgang Schlumph founded it in 1878. Arkansas at that time was a wild district of Indians and white outlaws. The Army garrison at Fort Smith was a necessity. But Father Schlumph with his blackrobed Benedictines feared no one. His troupe worked their way through the Ozarks and at a mountain spot 50 miles from Fort Smith they made a clearing, sawed and chopped blocks of limestone from the mountain walls and built themselves a home. They called the place Subiaco, after Subiaco in Italy where St. Benedict...
...useless to attempt to drive the fire trucks from Fort Smith to Subiaco. The distance is 50 miles and the roads bad. A five-mile stretch ust west of Paris was impossible. So the firemen loaded their trucks on railroad cars and shipped them by rail to Subiaco. They wasted no time. But when they arrived at the monastery they found little to do other than to look at the bleak walls, the shivering students and monks...
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