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- Capuchin monkey is the common name for the tropical New World monkeys comprising the genus Cebus of the primate family Cebidae, characterized ...13 KB (1,924 words) - 22:10, 25 November 2023
- Chastity is a virtue concerning the state of purity of the mind and body. Chastity includes abstinence from sexual intimacy for the unmarried ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 00:44, 5 December 2023
- his translation, with assistance from Observant friar William Roy. In 1525, publication of his work by Peter Quentell in Cologne was interrupted ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 20:44, 13 May 2023
- * The Sovereign Sun. Trans. Kinom Friar (Philadelphia, U.S.A. 1974) * Selected poems. Ed. E. Keeley and Ph. Sherrard (1981) ==Reference works== ...12 KB (1,487 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- banks of the upper Volga River; in 1237, a Dominican friar, Friar Julian, set off on an expedition to lead them back, and was sent back to King Bela with ...27 KB (4,287 words) - 22:42, 30 September 2020
- Abram broke into the Harrisons' Friar Park home in Henley-on-Thames ... #039;s co-gardeners at his eventual home, Friar Park. Sadly, tensions with ...35 KB (5,701 words) - 08:07, 23 January 2023
- Albertus Magnus (1193/1206 – November 15, 1280), also known as Saint Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, was a Dominican friar who became ...14 KB (2,170 words) - 05:03, 17 June 2023
- been a highly educated cleric there, or possibly a friar from a nearby monastery at Woodkirk, four miles north of Wakefield. It was once thought that ...17 KB (2,612 words) - 02:40, 11 March 2023
- that the Pope's hostility was due to the friar's outspoken invectives against papal corruption and to his appeals for a General Council ...30 KB (4,978 words) - 14:44, 18 July 2023
- controversy between the university and the Friar-Preachers about the liberty ... It should be noted that, as a Dominican Friar, Aquinas was supposed ...35 KB (5,231 words) - 18:38, 30 April 2023
- the Maritains’ spiritual advisor, a Dominican friar named Fr. Humbert Clérissac, introduced her to the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. So enthusiastic ...18 KB (2,703 words) - 08:31, 18 March 2024
- A monk (from Greek: monos meaning "alone") is a term denoting any male person who has taken religious vows of poverty and celibacy ...38 KB (6,105 words) - 20:00, 9 November 2022
- Catholic Inquisition in Spain, with the Dominican friar, the converso Tomás de Torquemada, as the first Inquisitor General, the Catholic Monarchs set ...18 KB (2,888 words) - 19:02, 7 March 2024
- Francis a Sancta Clara, a learned Franciscan friar who became chaplain to Queen Henrietta; but it may have been strengthened by his known connection ...18 KB (2,949 words) - 02:26, 1 August 2022
- Ockham's razor is a principle attributed to the fourteenth century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. Originally ...19 KB (2,872 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- The Books of Hours (Latin: Horae; English: Primer) The English term ("primer") is attested to in the [http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50188596 ...20 KB (3,067 words) - 00:11, 19 November 2023
- story, as are his "merry men," including Friar Tuck and Alan-a-Dale. Scott's Robin Hood in Ivanhoe helped shape the modern notion of ...17 KB (2,589 words) - 22:29, 3 May 2023
- It was by his order that Roger Bacon, a Franciscan Friar himself, was interdicted from lecturing at Oxford, and compelled to put himself under the surveillance ...20 KB (3,032 words) - 07:21, 17 November 2023
- Servetus entered the service of a Franciscan friar by the name of Juan de Quintana, an Erasmian, and read the entire Bible in its original languages from ...19 KB (2,991 words) - 17:09, 9 November 2022
- hundred ships. His main ally was the Franciscan friar, Giovanni da Capistrano, whose fiery oratory drew a large crusade made up mostly of peasants. Although ...19 KB (2,971 words) - 07:01, 8 April 2024
