Word: virtus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...corresponding right-hand window, a scholar in crimson suit with cap and gown. In the two remaining mullioned windows are to be shrines and short Latin inscriptions to the soldier and scholar. In the four quatrefoils above these windows there will be four cherubs bearing the single words: "Virtus," "Honor," "Fides," and "Amor." In the large rose window above are to be angles with musical instruments...
...virtue." It is remarkable how single words often express in their development the history of whole phases of human history. The word "virtue" in the text is a fitting example. The Greek word used by St. Peter had a simple meaning compared with its translation, a meaning parallel to "virtus" from which we get our word. It meant all that is brave and manly, all that is distinctly masculine...