Saint Benedict Saint Benedict leading others in a life of service to God The life of Saint Benedict dramatically shaped Christianity development through the impacts of Benedicts Law on monarchism and my ministry today. Saint Benedict was born in about the year 480 AD. Many of the milestones in Benedict’s life are approximations as is the year of his birth. The only dated event of his life was in 542 AD when he was visited by a king at Monte Cassino. We know that he was an older man when
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painted Saint Agatha from 1635-45; the medium used to paint the portrait was oil and tempera on canvas. This devotional image shows the saint contemplating God while tenderly holding the pincers‚ the instruments of her sufferings through which she achieved her sanctity. The way in which the saint is modeled with soft sfumato (an almost invisible rendering of the transitions from light to shade) and emerges from a dark background is characteristic of Furini’s work. Francessco Furini’s piece Saint Agatha
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Saint Simon Claude Henri de Rouvroy‚ comte de Saint-Simon‚ often referred to as Henri de Saint-Simon (17 October 1760–19 May 1825) was a French utopian socialist thinker. Saint-Simon was born in Paris. He belonged to a younger branch of the family of the duc de Saint-Simon. He claimed his education was directed by Jean le Rond d’Alembert‚ though no proof of this exists; it is likely that Saint-Simon himself invented this false intellectual pedigree. At the age of sixteen he was in America helping
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Saint Nicholas Leaving a pair of shoes out on December 5th may result in them being full of gifts the next day. Saint Nicholas is known for his generosity of gift giving and is the one responsible for the treats in shoes. Although the celebration of Saint Nicholas is intended to recognize his holiness‚ it has been almost transformed into something else. Many children just take advantage of the fact that they get candy‚ and they don’t have any interest in learning the history of Saint Nicholas.
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Saint Monica Saint Monica‚ mother of Saint Augustine of Hippo is most famously known for the conversion of her husband‚ Patricius‚ and Saint Augustine. She was born in Tagaste‚ North Africa and is known to be of Berber origin because of her name. There she was born and raised by her mother and father. As soon as she was old enough‚ her parents arranged her marriage to a Tagaste official. Saint Monica’s marriage to Patricius was difficult in many ways imaginable. Not only was he much older than
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best before and after studies are carried out‚ good baseline data must be collected; this may prove challenging for some organizations‚ as much of the data being collected is subjective or inconsistent. Two challenges presented in the Beacon Policy Brief address the improvement of data validity and the establishment of community-wide measurements (Rein‚ Sabharwal‚ Schachter‚ 2013). Data collection is a complicated topic‚ because there are so many sources of data and so many ways to collect it
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Wuthering Heights A Brief Summary Many people‚ generally those who have never read the book‚ consider Wuthering Heights to be a straightforward‚ if intense‚ love story — Romeo and Juliet on the Yorkshire Moors. But this is a mistake. Really the story is one of revenge. It follows the life of Heathcliff‚ a mysterious gypsy-like person‚ from childhood (about seven years old) to his death in his late thirties. Heathcliff rises in his adopted family and then is reduced to the status of a servant‚
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Saint Joseph There is no certain date when Saint Joseph was born‚ but he was said to be born around 100 BC. Saint Joseph is one of the three people in the Holy Family‚ also including Mary and Jesus. Saint Joseph was the husband of Mary and the foster father of Jesus. Although he was a humble person‚ Joseph came from a royal lineage. His genealogy marks him as a descendant of David. Saint Matthew said that Joseph was the son of Jacob‚ but Saint Luke said he was the son of Heli. He was a carpenter
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The Saint and the Goblin By Hector Hugh Munro Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 13 November 1916)‚ better known by the pen name Saki‚ and also frequently as H. H. Munro‚ was a British writer whose witty‚ mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirized Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde‚ Lewis Carroll‚ and Kipling‚ he himself influenced A. A. Milne‚ Noël Coward‚ and P. G
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Saint Joseph Saint Joseph was the foster dad of Jesus which made him a saint but he was also know as Joseph of the House of David‚ Joseph the Betrothed‚ and Joseph the Worker is known from the New Testament. He was born in Bethlehem in the first century of BC. He settled in Nazareth and lived to be 111 before he died in Nazareth on July 20‚ AD 18. He was a hard-working carpenter with not a lot of money. Even though according to Christian tradition he was not the biological father of Jesus‚ he
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