But have you ever wondered who St Francis was and why he has been the central image on both your badge and the British Veterinary Nursing Association logo? The short answer is that St Francis of Assisi is the patron saint of animals, but his life story and the circumstances that led to ...
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Robin Hood and the Crusades: When and Why Did the Longbowman of the People Mount Up Like a Lord? Robin Hood riding home from crusade seems a default opening to modern Sherwood stories, especially in film. But the late medieval point of the longbow was to make him a peasant and a pedest...
The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to...
Visionary leaders focus on everyday objectives as well. They are optimistic and enthusiastic and inspire those around them. People naturally follow leaders who arouse their hopes just as surely as they reject anyone who is perpetually pessimistic. Have you ever known an effective leader who was laz...
Donatus Buongiorno was a late-19th- and early-20th-century Italian and American artist of Naples and New York. His most visible, most enduring legacy in New York is a commission of 32 murals depicting the lives of Christ, St. Francis of Assisi, and St. Anthony of Padua, completed betwee...
was his harbinger, and prepared his way; but of those prophets who came, and were not sent of God, and so did not come in by the door; of the shepherds of Israel, who fed themselves, and not the flock, but lorded it over God's heritage; and of such, as Theudas, and Judas ...
It was a lovely moment! We were in the city of Assisi, in the Basilica of Santa Chiara, in the Year of Clare2, and on the third morning of the gathering we were asking the question: What could the thirteenth-century woman Saint Clare of Assisi3 offer us at Assisi 2012? What might ...
they give information to the police. Partridge cites November 8, 1836’sThe Individual: “Ven I’m corned, I can gammon a gentry cove, Come the fawney-rig, the figging-lay, and never vish to bleat.” The term was obsolete in Britain by 1890, but as of 1920 was a current slang ter...