(14 August 1742 – 20 August 1823), born Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 14 March 1800 to his death in 1823. Chiaramonti was also a monk of the Order of Saint Benedict in addition to being a well-known ...
He became well known for his pastoral care and respected by both Anglicans and nonconformists. He collaborated with William Cowper to produce a volume of hymns, including ‘Amazing Grace’. So popular was his preaching, that the church could not accommodate all those who flocked to hear him....
As it is written: “Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles; I will sing hymns to Your name.” Treasury of Scripture Let our lord now command your servants, which are before you, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the ...
gained independence from australia in 1975. mourners jostled for a seat at the sir hubert murray sports stadium in the png capital of port moresby to attend the funeral. a choir sang hymns at the catholic ceremony, and dancers in traditional clothing performed. it was a symbolic site for...
This dissertation treats the Great Week and Bright Week ritual cycle (the hymns and services of the two weeks preceding and following Pascha, or Easter) as both the result of, and the chief matrix for, self-organizing processes within th... TG Patitsas - The Catholic University of America...
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He became known as a leader of, and an able polemicist for the Oxford Movement, an influential and controversial grouping of Anglicans who wished to return to the Church of England many Catholic beliefs and liturgical rituals from before the English Reformation. In this, the movement had some...
His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as the Four Seasons. Many of his compositions were written for the all-female music ensemble of the Ospedale della Pietà, a home for abandoned children. Vivaldi had worked there as a Catholic priest for 1 1/2 years and was ...
teachings (known as Hussites) refused to elect another Catholic monarch and defeated five consecutive papal crusades between 1420 and 1431 in what became known as the Hussite Wars. Both the Bohemian and the Moravian populations remained majority Hussite until the 1620s, when a Protestant defeat ...
Albertus Magnus, (before 1200 – November 15, 1280), also known as Saint Albert the Great and Albert of Cologne, was a German Catholic Dominican friar and bishop. Later canonised as a Catholic saint, he was known during his lifetime as Doctor universalis and Doctor expertus and, late in ...