The fugitive Goths found a retreat in those mountains where the Romans had never been able to effectively establish their authority; only a few years after the rout of Guadalete, they gained a victory over Alkama, the lieutenant of El Horr, in the portentous battle of Covadonga, where ...
He had a retreat for intervals of meditation at the White Deer Grotto in the hills near P’o-yang Lake. The “Book of Changes” (Y-king) begins with the T’ai-ki, the Great Absolute; according to Chu Hi there was in the beginning the primordial principle, the abstract monad called ...
The houses of male religious number about 160; of female religious, 205, for the most part devoted to teaching, ministering to the sick in public and private hospitals, managing various houses of retreat, etc. Besides the three patriarchal chapters (see below, under Churches), there are at ...
The Jesuits, who returned in 1842, have 25 houses in Canada, 7 in Alaska, and 309 religious, including 125 priests, 96 scholastics, 88 lay brothers, engaged in various colleges (Montreal and St. Boniface), parishes, and missions (Quebec, Sault Sainte Marie, Peterborough, and Hamilton). ...
Its banking houses were famous through all Europe, and had for clients not only a multitude of private individuals, but also kings and popes. As financial agents of the latter, the mercatores papa, the Florentines were to be found in all the chief national centers, and exercised no little...
1 house of correction for young women, 1 house of correction for boys, 3 institutions for the reform of adults, 61 hospitals, infirmaries, or asylums for the aged, 19 houses for the care of the sick in their homes, 2 homes for convalescents, 5 houses of retreat, 2 insane asylums. I...
—Enclosed between the city walls, the zecca (the mint) with the adjacent houses, and the Viale del Museo, he the Vatican Gar-dens, or Boscareccio, into which visitors are admitted only with the special permission of the sub-Prefect of the Vatican Palace. They are reached through the mus...
This group originated from a spiritual retreat called Maranathá, in which the participants report to have received a “revelation” from the Holy Spirit that the group should be created. The local parish priest is of charismatic orientation, but the CCR competes with several other movements in ...
This was a policy the bishops had been promoting for years, and with Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress it seemed that policy agreement was inevitable. The sticking point in this case was whether the federal government should pay for abortion services and how to define what ...