Heroes of the Cross: Or, Studies in the Biography of Saints, Martyrs and Chritian PioneersJ. Masters, 1880 - 479 páginas |
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... afterwards adopted and partially developed by Leo the Great ; it became a reality during the pontificate of S. Gregory . The last named was a contemporary of the saint of Iona , the Apostle of Western Scotland , the great and holy ...
... afterwards adopted and partially developed by Leo the Great ; it became a reality during the pontificate of S. Gregory . The last named was a contemporary of the saint of Iona , the Apostle of Western Scotland , the great and holy ...
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... afterwards established by the Medieval Founders . Her monasteries were numerous , and wherever they were situated they became centres of civilisa- tion and of the highest moral influence . While the Eastern monks or anchorites made a ...
... afterwards established by the Medieval Founders . Her monasteries were numerous , and wherever they were situated they became centres of civilisa- tion and of the highest moral influence . While the Eastern monks or anchorites made a ...
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... afterwards professed to trace their existence to his labours . Of these the most important were Durrow , ( Dair - mach , ) and Derry , ( Doir - chalgaich , ) both taking their names from the oak forests in the heart of which they were ...
... afterwards professed to trace their existence to his labours . Of these the most important were Durrow , ( Dair - mach , ) and Derry , ( Doir - chalgaich , ) both taking their names from the oak forests in the heart of which they were ...
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... afterwards Curnan , a son of the King of Connaught , pursued for having committed an act of homicide , fled to Columba for sanctuary , but was seized by Diarmaid's orders , and put to death . This violation of the ecclesiastical ...
... afterwards Curnan , a son of the King of Connaught , pursued for having committed an act of homicide , fled to Columba for sanctuary , but was seized by Diarmaid's orders , and put to death . This violation of the ecclesiastical ...
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... afterwards ascertained , the Abbot of Durrow felt burning within him a new flame of compassion , and awakening to a sense of his unnecessary severity , he bade his monks desist from their toil , and seek refreshment and repose . The ...
... afterwards ascertained , the Abbot of Durrow felt burning within him a new flame of compassion , and awakening to a sense of his unnecessary severity , he bade his monks desist from their toil , and seek refreshment and repose . The ...
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Página 19 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Página 427 - O GoD, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home.
Página 83 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much : and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.
Página 122 - And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God : but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
Página 20 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Página 323 - First, that in the most blessed Sacrament of the Altar, by the strength and efficacy of Christ's mighty word (it being spoken by the priest), is present really, under the form of bread and wine, the natural body and blood of our Saviour Jesus Christ, conceived of the Virgin Mary ; and that after the consecration there remaineth no substance of bread or wine, nor any other substance, but the substance of Christ, God and man.
Página 334 - Who in the same night that He was betrayed took bread, and, when He had given thanks, He brake it, and gave it to His disciples, saying, Take, eat ; this is My Body, which is given for you : do this in remembrance of Me.
Página 345 - Rather than thus our wills too strong for it. His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong ; his life, I'm sure, was in the right...
Página 476 - It is a review of the cares, the duties, the troubles of life ; the consolations that enable souls to bear, the principles upon which it behoves them to act ; the hopes that brighten the darkest prospects of the traveller through the world. It is no unworthy gift to the Church from one who has served her so well by his pen in past time.
Página 422 - O that I had wings like a dove ! then would I flee away and be at rest.