However, Francis Xavier and his companions realized that the cultures they encountered were not easily replaced. To assist in their endeavours to spread the Catholic teachings, the Jesuits felt it necessary to
The Gabrielite has taken control: It has attached a weight to the elephant trunk to prevent further lily attacks and has put an ankle bracelet around its big feet to prevent the elephant from trampling any furniture on the cloud. The good news is that the new cockpit area with the standing...
He ordered the Saints to renounce Christ and offer sacrifice to the pagan “gods,” but the brothers refused. Then they scourged the brothers without mercy. Saint Valerian urged the Christians not to fear torments, but to stand firm for Christ. In order to prevent the brothers from ...
The monk became a religious teacher; in the eyes of believers, he was actually on the way to salvation and for that reason alone was surrounded by an aura of superiority; thus his role became extremely important. In the countries where Hinayana exists, monasticism plays an enormous role in ...
areas and social statuses.The Buddhist formulation of fangsheng started withthe fabrication of a hagiography of the Buddha. Sometimearound the end of the fifth century bce, a Chinese monkforged a sutra calledFan Wang Jing梵網經(Sutra ofBrahma’s net) and claimed it as the translation of an...
“Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me.”—which is continuously repeated while integrating the breath and can also incorporate prostrations that resemble yogic postures or asanas. In the film, one can observe a monk of Mount Athos performing this practice of the Prayer of the ...
wanted to let me go, because there was no cause for putting me to death. 19 But when the Jews spoke against it, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything of which to accuse my nation. 20 For this reason therefore I have called for you, to see you and speak ...
Asceticism is not solely a matter of giving old things up; it also involves taking on things that are new. Lenten discipline, for example, involves theadditionof deeper spiritual practices and loving actions, and not merely the commonsubtractionsof culinary pleasures and worldly amusements. More ...
In 1689, it rose to34,000, including Acadia.** Increased soon after to thirty-six by Saint-Vallier,Laval’s successor.*** Mémoire a Duchesneau, 15 Mai, 1678; Le Roy aDuchesneau, 11 Juin, 1680.must do the impossible to accomplish my intentions, which are always that the curés should...
Repeating what had already been established by the narrator, Vasantasundar¯ı explains that her relatives had intended to marry her to Yudhis.t.hira, but after she had heard that Yudhis.t.hira had perished together with his brothers in the Lacquer House, she decided to renounce the world...