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Cardinal virtues
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Jean de Rotrou
Jean de Rotrou , 1609-50, French dramatist. One of the Cinq auteurs, five playwrights commissioned by Cardinal Richelieu, Rotrou wrote many plays, including the noble and effective tragedies Saint-Genest (1646) and Venceslas (1647). He was a friend and rival of Corneille.... Read more |
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Gaston duc d Orleans
Gaston Orléans, duc d' , 1608-60, son of King Henry IV and Marie de' Medici , younger brother of Louis XIII . He took part in many of the conspiracies of the great nobles against Louis XIII's minister, Cardinal Richelieu , and several times fled from France. Although Gaston was pardoned... Read more |
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Jacques Lemercier
Jacques Lemercier , c.1585-1654, French architect, one of the group that evolved a classical mode of expression for French architecture. In Italy (c.1607-1614) he was strongly influenced by the architecture of Rome. With Cardinal Richelieu as his patron, Lemercier received his greatest opportunities... Read more |
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Joseph Cardinal Bernardin
Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Joseph Cardinal Bernardin (1928-1996) was a major leader in the U.S.-based Catholic Church during the modern progressive era. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin became the symbol, even if unknowingly, of the U.S. Catholic Church's struggle with modernity. A quiet, devout... Read more |
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La Rochelle
La Rochelle , city (1990 pop. 73,744), capital of Charente-Maritime dept., W France, on the Bay of Biscay. Industries include naval, aircraft, and automobile construction. La Rochelle is the principal French fishing port on the Atlantic coast. Chartered in the 12th cent., it soon became one of the... Read more |
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cardinal
cardinal [Lat.,=attached to and thus "belonging to" the hinge], in the Roman Catholic Church, a member of the highest body of the church. The sacred college of cardinals of the Holy Roman Church is the electoral college of the papacy . Its members are appointed by the pope. A cardinal's... Read more |
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Louis XIII
Louis XIII 1601-43, king of France (1610-43). He succeeded his father, Henry IV , under the regency of his mother, Marie de' Medici . He married Anne of Austria in 1615. Even after being declared of age in 1614, he was excluded from affairs of state by his domineering mother. In 1617 he caused... Read more |
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Ambrosian Library
Ambrosian Library , founded c.1605 in Milan by Cardinal Federigo Borromeo. It became one of the earliest libraries to be opened to the public. The library's collection is rich in classical manuscripts, notably Homer and Vergil, in incunabula, and in Oriental texts. It also contains Leonardo da... Read more |
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Benjamin de Rohan seigneur de Soubise
Benjamin de Rohan Soubise, seigneur de , 1583-1642, French Protestant general. He fought under Maurice of Nassau in the Netherlands and subsequently shared the leadership of the Huguenots with his brother, Henri, duc de Rohan . He directed the defense of La Rochelle (1627-28) against Cardinal... Read more |
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Anticommunism
...however, were responsible anticommunists possessing accurate knowledge about domestic and foreign communism and sincerely concerned...Patrick Scanlon, editor of the Brooklyn Tablet, Francis Cardinal Spellman, and William F. Buckley Jr.; New Deal Era liberals... |
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cults and the body
...practices pertaining to cosmological, spiritual, and religious knowledge. Used in this sense, all societies on earth, as well as all...and the hogan is positioned in proper relation to the four cardinal directions within Navajoland (which is defined by four sacred... |
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Newman, John Henry
...research, and to train the mind rather than to diffuse useful knowledge. In 1864 appeared his Apologia pro Vita Sua, in answer...but through intuitive perception. In 1879 he was created a cardinal.Newman also published two novels, both anonymously. Loss... |
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phallic symbol
...sisters, birth, death, nakedness’. Sex, however, is of cardinal importance to psychoanalysts, and sexual symbolism (especially the...consciously or unconsciously, in women. Nor will anyone with a knowledge of anatomy be bewildered by the fact that it is possible for... |
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Cromwell, Thomas
...Italy, and somehow acquired a broad education including some knowledge of business and law. He sat in the 1523 Parliament and entered the...the sort of ascendancy in Henry VIII's councils held by Cardinal Wolsey. The last four years of his life were a constant struggle... |
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Religion and War
...clerics based enduring theoretical contributions on their knowledge of colonial warfare: the Dominican Bartolomé de Las Casas (1474–1566...Vietnam. On the other side, religious motives also led Francis Cardinal Spellman, Catholic archbishop of New York, and the Protestant... |
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Newman, Ven. John Henry
...90), Tractarian leader and later Cardinal. Brought up under Evangelical influence...of the function of conscience in our knowledge of God and of the role of the ‘illative...religious certainty. In 1879 he was made a cardinal. Although unsuccessful in most of his... |
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Balthasar, Hans Urs von
...Secular Institute under her inspiration. He was nominated a cardinal in 1988 but died before admitted to the office.His literary...This concept broadens the basis of theology by uniting knowledge and love in contemplation. |
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Cromwell, Thomas
...worker, he somehow acquired a broad education including some knowledge of business and law. He sat in the 1523 Parliament and...Thomas Cromwell never enjoyed the sort of ascendancy held by Cardinal Wolsey and the last four years of his life were a constant... |
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Kilwardby, Robert
...Abp. of Canterbury from 1273 to 1278, when he was made a cardinal and translated to Porto in Italy. He had been a Master of Arts...include the ‘De ortu scientiarum’, a classification of knowledge largely based on Aristotle; a commentary on the ‘Sentences... |
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Nicholas of Cusa
...himself wholly to the cause of the Pope. Nicholas V made him a cardinal and in 1450 appointed him Bp. of Brixen (in the Tyrol) and Papal...absolute, one, and infinitely simple, is unknowable to man. Knowledge by contrast is relative, multiple, complex, and at best... |
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Gasquet, Francis Aidan
Gasquet, Francis Aidan (1846–1929), cardinal from 1914. He was elected Prior of Downside in 1878. In 1896 he went...British propaganda. His writings, though often inaccurate, increased knowledge of English monasticism. |
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Lamennais, Félicité Robert de
...that the individual is dependent on the community for his knowledge of the truth. Later volumes (1820–3) equated Catholic...approved by Pope Leo XII, who possibly intended to make him a cardinal. Later Lamennais prophesied an impending revolution and demanded... |
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Clickers; Cardinal knowledge, Lincoln logs.(TV Plus)
...Black, however, had a ray of supportive news. She reported to Woodruff that Cardinal "Medeiros" was strongly in Ashcroft's corner. Maybe via ouija board. Cardinal Humberto Medeiros, the former archbishop of Boston, met his Maker some years... |
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Cardinal knowledge
Only Cardinal Basil Hume is immediately recognisable, but all five of Emma Rushton's doll-sized wax figures are wholly familiar: the sticking... |
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SMELL THE COFFEE: ; Cardinal knowledge
...an exasperated sigh, ran his fingers through his thinning hair. "I mean ... in the carnal sense." "You slept with a cardinal?" I said. "That's adorable! But weren't you afraid of rolling over on it? I mean, my mom raised a blue jay once... |
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Cardinal No-Knowledge: Boston Cardinal Bernard Law has become very...
...testimony last week--which continued on Monday--Boston Cardinal Bernard Law showed signs of a presidential-quality forgetfulness...possibly say now that could salvage himself and his church?" The cardinal was not giving any interviews. |
 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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Joan Burnie: Cardinal's knowledge.(Features)
...Byline: Joan Burnie VERY interested in Cardinal Keith O'Brien's thoughts on the...it has to be acknowledged that the Cardinal's Church does have wide experience...stones. CAPTION(S): COMMENTS: Cardinal O'Brien |
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Reports from J. Cardinal and colleagues advance knowledge in genetics and...
...use of a population-based reference interval," wrote J. Cardinal and colleagues. The researchers concluded: "The assay is...considered. (J Clin Endocrinol Metab 95: 3657-3663, 2010)." Cardinal and colleagues published their study in the Journal of Clinical... |
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ROCKIES' WISE GUY EX-CARDINALS PITCHER THROWS KNOWLEDGE IN YOUNGSTERS'...
...back, a well-wisher with a New York accent called. It was Jack Lamabe. Most Rockies fans younger than 45 have little knowledge of Lamabe. Those who do remember he pitched, mostly in relief, for seven teams from 1962-1968 probably have no idea this... |
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Knowledge, wisdom, and Cardinal Newman. (Correspondence).
...have been teaching John Henry Cardinal Newman's Idea of a University...recognition in Edward Tingley's "Knowledge for the Sake of Knowledge" (January). I would fail...to wisdom." Newman's "knowledge" is a substitute for wisdom... |
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Albert Pujols: baseball's most complete hitter: Cardinals slugger uses his...
...spring. Leaving Jupiter, Florida the Cardinals new hitting coach already carried an...In his first four seasons with the Cardinals, Pujols amassed 160 home runs, 504...Musial (1948-1952) is the only other Cardinals player to finish in the top five in four... |
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"You're on the radio".(Sources say ...)(radio host Kevin Slaten conducts a...
...declined? Simple. Just call him up and start talking while the microphone is live. It happened March 27 to Dave Duncan, the Cardinals pitching coach. Duncan feels Slaten unfairly maligns the team and he told a producer he didn't want to go on the show... |
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