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BEYOND THE WALLS: MONASTIC WISDOM FOR EVERYDAY LIFE.(Review)
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April 21, 2000|
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BEYOND THE WALLS: MONASTIC WISDOM FOR EVERYDAY LIFE By Paul Wilkes Doubleday, 244 pages, $21
Monthly visits to Carolina monastery plant seeds for transformation
Monastic life is making a book-publishing comeback. We live in a time that prizes virtually everything monastic life teaches us to abhor: individualism, materialism, sensual gratification, speed and form above substance. Meanwhile, everyday pressures take their toll, wear us down, send us into that spiritual desert from which it can be difficult to exit. Our search for serenity and endless desire to ...
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The Marble Faun and the Waste of History.
Magazine article from: The Southern Review
; ...suspected, too, on the statue's lookalike, the young Italian, Donatello. They would go into the catacombs of Saint Calixtus (where Hawthorne's Americans first see the mysterious pursuer of their friend, the Englishwoman Miriam), stop...
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Around The Nation.(Metro & National News)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin
; ...was born in Valencia, Spain on Jan. 23, 1357 to a deeply religious family. He died in 1419 and was canonized saint by Pope Calixtus III on June 3, 1455. (Christina I. Hermoso) Motorcycle-driven mini-firetruck bared In response to the...
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On Being Welsh - Saint of Small Things.(St. David)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: World and I
; In his last sermon, Saint David instructed his followers to "be...stories of the big things the patron saint accomplished: how he raised a boy from...1120, when David was canonized by Pope Calixtus II and March 1 was included in the church...
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Charting the emergence of the Renaissance world
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...canon. His "Virgin and Child with Saint Jerome and Saint Bernardino" straddles the abyss...by Sano di Pietro depicts Pope Calixtus III enthroned looking up at the...parchment a ferocious likeness of "Saint Bernardino Preaching from a Pulpit...
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Glowing in the dark
Magazine article from: The Spectator
; ...Virgin recommends Siena to Pope Calixtus III' by Sano di Pietro, in...along with two popular local saints, the great Franciscan preacher...ranks of angels or enhaloed saints. Among the other splendours...depicts Mary surrounded by saints, the rich effect of her gilded...the powerful shoulder of ...
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The Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum
; ...preface attributed to Pope Calixtus II; hence the title 'Codex...Guide (Le Guide du pelerin de Saint-Jacques de Compostelle...names) deals with most of the saints (and some heroes, like Roland...Compostela a kind of Broadway of Saints' (pp. x-xi, xii). In...emphasis given to the cult of ...
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ASK THE GLOBE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...the study of the 15th-century French saint herself, but there is an organization...stake at Rouen on May 30, 1431. Pope Calixtus III pronounced her innocent in 1456...by Pope Pius X in 1909 and declared a saint by Pope Benedict XV in 1920. Her feast...
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TRAVELOGUE: ROME REVISITED; Eternal City's famed fountain
Newspaper article from: Filipino Reporter
; ...We were greeted by twin colonnades topped with statues of saints and martyrs at the Piazza San Pietro. And at the head of...these houses of worship, we then visited the catacombs of San Calixtus. This is Tome's largest catacomb and was the papal burial...where we went to the Basilica of St. Benedict, patron ...
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St. Bonaventure's Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Chapters 9-16
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...by Robert J. Karris (The Works of St. Bonaventure 8/2; Saint Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute Publications, 2003...reissued and reinterpreted papal bull "Sicut judeis" of Pope Calixtus II (d. 1124), which provided both protection and limitations...
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