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Classroom use.(discussion of El Greco's The Penitent Saint Peter)
Magazine article from: Arts & Activities; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...about the looks and feelings of Saint Peter, the most important of Jesus Christ...Mexico and Peru. * This painting of Saint Peter is one of a number showing the...the artist's career in Toledo. Saint Peter was a popular choice of subject...
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Raiding Saint Peter; empty sees, violence, and the initiation of the Great Western Schism (1378).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2008; 186 words
; 9789004165601 Raiding Saint Peter; empty sees, violence, and the initiation of the Great Western...University of Rhode Island) looks at the tradition of raiding Saint Peter and how it played a part in the Great Papal Schism of 1378. How...
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The altar in Saint Peter's basilica. (poem)
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 3/25/1994; ; 122 words
; The Altar in Saint Peter's Basilica Good Friday, 1993 They built it in the center instead of...assassins, tourists, unbelievers. I'll say it: I believe. I believe Saint Peter holds up the great walls of a faith with the grisly embers of his...
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Clip & save art notes.(discussion of El Greco's The Penitent Saint Peter)
Magazine article from: Arts & Activities; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; El Greco (1541-1614). The Penitent Saint Peter, c. 1595-1600. Oil on canvas; 47 3/8 x 42 3/8 . San Diego...like. this one, in that they are dark and mysterious. Saint Peter is praying next to a shadowy cliff, relieved only by...
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Tenured adolescents. (Notes & Comments: December 2002).(recent exchange between United States Air Force Academy cadet and Peter N. Kirstein, tenured professor of history at Saint Xavier University in Chicago)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 12/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...States Air Force Academy and Peter N. Kirstein, a tenured professor of history at Saint Xavier University in Chicago...instantly sparked condign outrage. Saint Xavier was flooded with emails...president, informing readers that Saint Xavier was reaching out compassionately...
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Magnificent Corpses: Searching Through Europe for St. Peter's Head, St. Chiara's Heart, St. Stephen's Hand, and Other Saints' Relics.(Pilgrimage)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 12/13/2003; 116 words
; ...as well as lesser known ones like Gemma Galgani. She describes the town and church where the saint's relics are on display and tells the story of the saint's life. One wonders what intrigues her, since she finds the saints self-destructive, masochistic...
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Edward Shalala at Saint Peter's Church. (New York, New York)(Review of Exhibitions)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 2/1/1994; ; 517 words
; Edward Shalala's use of fire in his work goes back to 1988, when he first experienced an Ojibwa Indian ceremony called a sweat lodge. The purpose of the ceremony is to help people through problems in their lives by way of a very intense experience of fire and heat combined with words. The heat is
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Thomas More & Bishop Fisher: declared saints 70 years ago.(Biography)
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; In Saint Peter's Basilica the solemn moment...Christ, of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and our own, after...martyrdom of Cardinal Fisher. Saint John, in a strong and very...afterwards to be re-interred in Saint Peter ad Vincula within the Tower...
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Saint Mary's University: the Catholic years, 1838-1971.
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Saint Mary's University, an institution...edge of the campus. Still, Saint Mary's is a modern secular...managed to operate a seminary in Saint Peter's Glebe House between 1818...finished (1829), and its patron saint was now Mary, not Peter. Also, the middle class had...becoming the ...
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The northern Palmyra: Saint Petersburg at three hundred. (Hillwood Museum & Gardens).
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...to do the same. Peter preferred to present...the lands on which Saint Petersburg was built...bust (PL II) depicts Peter as a victorious emperor...the elite. In 1718 Peter decreed that Saint Petersburg's wealthiest...specialists. After Peter's death in 1725...fiftieth anniversary of ...
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Peter, Saint
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Peter, Saint (d. c. 64) Apostle of Jesus Christ...disciples. Jesus gave Simon the name Peter (John 1:42). Peter was one of Jesus' closest and most loyal...was on trial before the Sanhedrin , Peter denied knowing him three times, just...
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Saint Peter Port
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names
Saint Peter Port, Guernsey/Channel Islands Named after the church dedicated to St Peter (d. c. 64), leader of the apostles, with Port added to call attention to its importance as a port with a safe harbour.
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Saint Peter's Church
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...site of the Vatican cemetery and an early shrine to St. Peter . In the 4th cent. Emperor Constantine built the first church of St. Peter, a wood-roofed basilica, with transepts, five aisles, and an atrium. It was said to be built over the grave of St. Peter. Here Charlemagne and many other emperors and ...
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Saint Peter Claver
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...large numbers. He worked indefatigably under the most loathsome conditions and was generally unappreciated by Spanish officialdom and even by his colleagues. Feast: Sept. 9. Bibliography: See A. Lunn, A Saint in the Slave Trade: Peter Claver (1935).
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Saint Peter
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...translated into Greek as Petros [Gr. petra = rock]. Peter was a native of Bethsaida and the brother of St. Andrew...1-11; John 1.40-44). There are several feasts of St. Peter in the West: St. Peter and St. Paul, June 29; the Chair of St. Peter, Apostle...
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