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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The Saints and the Roughnecks was an analysis in the delinquency of two groups from two different socioeconomic groups. The Saints were from privileged families and‚ despite being more delinquent than the Roughnecks‚ were viewed as being normal rowdy teenagers. The Saints are the upper class boys. These boys get good grades and they do a lot of extracurricular activities. So‚ people think they are good kids. They escape class and do reckless things on the weekend. They never got caught because
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Upon arrival at the Cathedral of Saint Pierre‚ the structure demands your respect. One can see the towers when approaching further up the street until the final steps when the building goes out of view. Upon the final turn the church pops into view with some form of shock. The whole environment is inviting. The grand rose window shining forth at the central point of the facade‚ steps lead you down to the front entrance and the front gothic porch recedes inward (McNarama‚ 147). Somethings tells you
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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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Saint Sebastian was born in the city of Narbonne‚ in Gaul‚ in the 3rd Century. Saint Sebastian was a young man by the time he was religious. He was a son of a wealthy Roman family and was educated in Milan. Throughout earlier in life‚ he was soon trasfered as an officer in the Imperial Roman army and captian of the guard. He was one of the favourites to Diocletian‚ who was the Emperorer of Rome since 284 AD to 305 AD but died in 312 AD. During Diocletian reign of power as emporer‚ he hated Christians
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