Virgin Sentence Examples

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  • I guess I was a virgin, studying to be a priest and all.

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  • Even the Virgin Mary, though she is styled Mother of God and Queen of Heaven, receives only dulia or at most hyperdulia.

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  • The village of Comorin, with the temple of Kanniyambal, the " virgin goddess," on the coast at the apex of the headland, is a frequented place of pilgrimage.

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  • Good luck finding a legitimate virgin in this day though.

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  • I bet he's a virgin!

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  • In other gallflies and in aphids we find that a sexual generation alternates with one or with many virgin generations.

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  • His first sojourn was in Vienna, where the friendship of Gentz and the protection of Metternich opened to him the Venetian archives, of which many were preserved in that city - a virgin field, the value of which he first discovered, and which is still unexhausted.

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  • In 1200 King John granted the prior of Bridlington a weekly market on Saturday and an annual fair on the vigil, feast and morrow of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.

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  • The offspring of the virgin females are in most of these instances females; but among the bees and wasps parthenogenesis occurs normally and always results in the development of males, the " queen " insect laying either a fertilized or unfertilized egg at will.

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  • It is the most ancient of all the festivals in honour of the Virgin Mary.

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  • Everyone thought she was being immature about this – as if there were something ridiculous about the idea of a 25-year-old virgin.

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  • Giovanni in Laterano - and the Virgin's wedding -ring; and at the north-east corner is a sitting statue of Pope Julius III.

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  • Among the principal examples are " Roman Triumphs " (not the same compositions as the Hampton Court pictures), " A Bacchanal Festival," " Hercules and Antaeus," " Marine Gods," " Judith with the Head of Holophernes," the " Deposition from the Cross," the " Entombment," the " Resurrection," the " Man of Sorrows," the " Virgin in a Grotto."

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  • In this mausoleum Theodoric was buried, but his body was cast forth from it, perhaps during the troublous times of the siege of Ravenna by the imperial troops, and the Rotunda (as it is now generally called) was converted into a church dedicated to the Virgin.

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  • The abbey church of St Mary the Virgin is a stately cruciform building with central tower, the nave and choir having aisles and clerestory.

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  • Under her native name, Britomartis (= the sweet maiden) or Dictynna, she approaches Artemis and Leto, again associated with an infant god, and this Cretan virgin goddess was worshipped in Aegina under the name of Aphaea.

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  • It is the object of an ancient and famous pilgrimage due to the tradition that Mary, sister of the Virgin, and Mary, mother of James and John, together with their black servant Sara, Lazarus, Martha, Mary Magdalen and St Maximin fled thither to escape persecution in Judaea.

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  • On the influence of her cult upon that of the Virgin Mary, see Rusch, Studien u.

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  • One night while he lay awake, he tells us, he saw the likeness of the Blessed Virgin with her divine Son; and immediately a loathing seized him for the former deeds of his life, especially for those relating to carnal desires; and he asserts that for the future he never yielded to any such desires.

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  • He is an earnest worshipper of the Virgin, but a bold and vigorous hater of monks and abbots.

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  • The 15th-century font, the pulpit (1570), the organ (1617), and the early Gothic Lady chapel containing a much venerated 13th-century image of the Virgin, which was annually carried in procession through the town, are all noticeable.

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  • In the r3th century a portion of Hakim's addition was pulled down to make way for the first cathedral, which was dedicated to the Virgin.

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  • It is really not extraordinary that Isaac Hollandus was able to indicate the method of the preparation of the " philosopher's stone " from " adamic " or " virgin " earth, and its action when medicinally employed; that in the writings assigned to Roger Bacon, Raimon Lull, Basil Valentine and others are to be found the exact quantities of it to be used in transmutation; and that George Ripley, in the 15th century, had grounds for regarding its action as similar to that of a ferment.

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  • The curious part of this fete, which is held in honour of the Virgin under the name of Virga Jesse, is the conversion of the town for the day into the semblance of a forest.

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  • At first she was suckled by a she-bear, and then saved by huntsmen, among whom she grew up to be skilled with the bow, swift, and fond of the chase, like the virgin goddess Artemis.

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  • Often litanies and hymns to the Virgin are added.

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  • Although agriculture is carried on on the upper Amur, where land has been cleared from virgin forests, it really prospers only below Kumara and on the fertile plains of the Zeya and Silinji.

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  • Spangles of mica are much used for decorative purposes of various kinds, and the mineral was formerly known as glacies Mariae (Ger., Frauenglas) because of its use for decorating statues of the Virgin.

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  • In this she was represented without arms, as a brilliant type of virgin beauty.

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  • He founded a short-lived order, the Brothers of the Virgin, suppressed by the council of Lyons (1274), and died a Franciscan.

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  • By means of a simple arrangement, which will be described farther on, this process can be carried out in a few seconds, and the metal can be brought as often as desired to a definite condition, which, if not quite identical with the virgin state, at least closely approximates to it.

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  • One of these groups is certainly of non-Jewish origin, as it conceives Mary as living in the temple somewhat after the manner of a vestal virgin or a priestess of Isis.

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  • Brazil not only is marvellously rich in botanical species, but included at the beginning of the 10th century the largest area of virgin forest on the surface of the earth.

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  • Along the coast, much of the virgin forest has been cut away, not only for the creation of cultivated plantations, but to meet the commercial demand for Brazil-wood and furniture woods.

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  • They are held in the public square, the curious and historic Piazza del Campo (now Piazza di Vittorio Emanuele) in shape resembling an ancient theatre, on the 2nd of July and the 16th of August of each year; they date from the middle ages and were instituted in commemoration of victories and in honour of the Virgin Mary (the old title of Siena, as shown by seals and medals, having been "Sena vetus civitas Virginis").

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  • The atrium has a fresco by Bartolo di Fredi and the two ground-floor halls contain a Coronation of the Virgin by Sano di Pietro and a splendid Resurrection by Sodoma.

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  • The noveschi, being "fat burghers" with powerful connexions, abilities and traditions, gained increased strength and influence in exile; and five years later, on 22nd July 1487, they returned triumphantly to Siena, dispersed the few adherents of the popolo who offered resistance, murdered the captain of the people, reorganized the state, and placed it under the protection of the Virgin Mary.

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  • The Delphic oracle bade them sacrifice a virgin of the house of Aepytus.

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  • They blasphemed the Virgin, allegorizing her as the upper Jerusalem in which the Lord came in and went out, and denying that he was really made flesh of her.

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  • Among the later Cathars of Europe we find the repudiation of marriage defended on the ground that the only true marriage is of Christ with his bride the Virgin church, and perhaps this is why Paulicians and Thonraki would not make of marriage a religious rite or sacrament.

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  • Paldo, Tuto and Vaso (according to Mabillon); Assumption of the Virgin; Combat between the Virtues and the Vices.

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  • The church of St Mary the Virgin has Norman remains in the tower and chancel.

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  • The Friars of the Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel or Carmelites or Whitefriars came to London in 1241, and made their home on land between Fleet Street and the Thames given by Edward I.

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  • Haynes has systematically and patiently uncovered the remains of the great temple of El-lil, removing layer after layer of debris and cutting sections in the ruins down to the virgin soil.

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  • The Apocalypse of the Virgin, containing her descent into hell, is not published entire, but only several portions of it from Greek MSS.

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  • The book contains disclosures by Christ, the Virgin and Beliar and much of the subjectmatter is ancient.

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  • At the top of the Heiliger Berg (1889 ft.) is a church with a wonder-working image of the Virgin, which is the chief place of pilgrimage in Bohemia.

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  • Zwemer have explored Oman in the extreme east; but the interior south of a line drawn from Taif to El Katr on the Persian Gulf is still virgin ground.

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  • They reject the Third Oecumenical Council, and though showing the greatest devotion to the Blessed Virgin, deny her the title of Theotokos, i.e.

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  • A large part of the surface is covered with virgin forest, consisting of screw-pines, palm trees, tree ferns, canariums, &c. The fauna is altogether Papuan.

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  • She was famous during her life-time for the weekly ecstasy of the Passion, during which in a trance she experienced the sufferings of the Holy Virgin contemplating the Passion of her Son.

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  • Another development of the legend is that in which, having rejected many offers of marriage, she was taken to heaven in vision and betrothed to Christ by the Virgin Mary.

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  • The church of St Mary the Virgin stands high, and is surmounted by a lofty spire; it shows good Decorated and Perpendicular work.

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  • There are many fine frescoes in the interior ranging from c. 1300 (knights kneeling before the Virgin) to the 15th century, including Pisanello's beautiful painting of St George (mentioned below).

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  • The rest of the edifice was in the baroque style; the high altar (containing the supposed letter of the Virgin Mary to the people of Messina), richly decorated with marbles, lapis lazuli, &c., was begun in 1628 and completed in 1726.

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  • The village of Philippsdorf, now incorporated with Georgswalde, has become since 1866 a famous place of pilgrimage, owing to the miracles attributed to an image of the Virgin, placed now in a magnificent new church (1885).

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  • Who for our sakes, came down, and was born of Mary the Virgin.

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  • Who for our salvation descended from heaven, was conceived of the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered by suffering under Pontius Pilate, under Herod the King, crucified, buried, descended into hell, trod down the sting of death, rose again the third day, appeared to the apostles.

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  • And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, begotten of His Father before all worlds, [God of God,] Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made; Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate of the Holy Ghost and the Virgin Mary, and was made Man.

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  • It is possible that Leo's letter to Flavian gave the impulse to put it forward because it contained a parallel to words which Leo quoted from the Old Roman Creed, " born of the Holy Ghost and the Virgin Mary," " crucified and buried," which do not occur in the first Nicene Creed.

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  • But in that case we must either reject the testimony of the same Hegesippus that up to their death, and that of Symeon son of Clopas, successor in the Jerusalem see of James the Lord's brother, " who suffered martyrdom at the age of one hundred and twenty years while Trajan was emperor and Atticus governor," " the church (universal) had remained a pure and uncorrupted virgin " free from " the folly of heretical teachers "; or else we must reject the superscription, which presents the grandfather in vehement conflict with the very heresies in question.

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  • The same figure of the church as a pure virgin is also used as in iii.

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  • Images of Christ, of the Virgin and saints have achieved many a similar miraculous portent.

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  • A figure of Christ has been known even to give its shoes to a poor man, and a Virgin to drop a ring off her finger to a suppliant.

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  • He was originally called Abd-el-Ka`ba ("servant of the temple"), and received the name by which he is known historically in consequence of the marriage of his virgin daughter Ayesha to Mahomet.

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  • After a fierce attack on Protestants caused by the mutilation of a statue of the Virgin, in 1528, the king, anxious to con ciliate both the German Protestants and anti-papal England, invited some of the reformers of Meaux to preach in the Louvre.

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  • By this time the truce extended from the Wednesday evening to the Monday morning in every week and also, in most places, lasted during the seasons of Lent and Advent, the three great vigils and feasts of the Blessed Virgin, and those of the twelve apostles and a few other saints.

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  • It has a beautiful cathedral, built after a plan by Rastrelli in 1753, to which pilgrims resort to venerate an ikon of the Virgin.

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  • In point of doctrine they acknowledged the seven sacraments, but gave them a symbolical meaning; they prayed to the Virgin and saints, and admitted auricular confession, but they denied purgatory and the sacrifice of the mass, and did not observe fasts or festivals.

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  • This consists in selecting a spot of virgin soil, clearing it of forest and jungle by burning, and scraping the surface with the rudest agricultural implements.

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  • Having been cured of this, as she believed, by the intercession of the Holy Virgin, she changed her name to Marie and vowed to devote her life to her service.

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  • He tells of the English observance of Saturday afternoon as holy to the Virgin, and has much to say of popular amusements, which become sins when they keep people away from church.

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  • Yet now and again he rises to the level of some heroic event, and parts of his chapter on the "Campaign of Hastings" and of his record of the wars of Syracuse and Athens, his reflections on the visit of Basil the Second to the church of the Virgin on the Acropolis, and some other passages in his books, are fine pieces of eloquent writing.

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  • The secret of the enthusiasm of the masses for the analogous expression Theotokos is to be sought not so much in the Nicene doctrine of the incarnation as in the recent growth in the popular mind of notions as to the dignity of the Virgin Mary, which were entirely unheard of (except in heretical circles) for nearly three centuries of the Christian era.

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  • That the Virgin should be given a title that was quasi-divine mattered little.

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  • And He who was born of the Father as to the Divinity, and from the Holy Virgin as to the humanity is and is styled one; for of the two natures there was a union."

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  • It would seem, from a somewhat obscure passage in the chronicle compiled from older the progenitors of the Poles, originally established on the Danube, were driven from thence by the Romans to the still wilder wilderness of central Europe, settling finally among the virgin forests and impenetrable morasses of the basin of the upper waters of the Oder and the Vistula.

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  • The ancient Polish hymn or war song, Piesn Boga Rodzica, was an address to the Virgin, sung by the Poles when about to fight.

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  • The doctrines of Hus had entered the country in very early times, and we find Polish recensions of Bohemian hymns; even the hymn to the Virgin previously mentioned is supposed to have a Czech basis.

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  • Among the mosaics is a colossal representation of the Virgin, 15 ft.

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  • It possesses a wonderworking ikon or image of the " Death of the Virgin," said to have been brought from Constantinople in 1073, and the second highest bell-tower in Russia.

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  • It includes also the superfluous merit and satisfaction of the Blessed Virgin and the Saints.

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  • There is an old church with a statue of the Virgin much revered by the sailors.

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  • The cathedral was erected and dedicated to the Virgin by King James I.

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  • The church of St Mary the Virgin rises on an eminence on the outskirts of the town.

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  • This work is now in the Bologna gallery, - the "Virgin enthroned, with Augustine and five other saints."

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  • The National Gallery, London, contains two remarkably fine specimens of Francia, once combined together as principal picture and lunette, - the "Virgin" and "Child and St Anna" enthroned, surrounded by saints, and (in the lunette) the "Pieta," or lamentation of angels over the dead Saviour.

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  • Other leading works are - in Munich, the "Virgin" sinking on her knees in adoration of the Divine Infant, who is lying in a garden within a rose trellis; in the Borghese gallery, Rome, a Peter Martyr; in Bologna, the frescoes in the church of St Cecilia, illustrating the life of the saint, all of them from the design of Raibolini, but not all executed by himself.

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  • The novice is classified according as his destination is the priesthood or lay brotherhood, while a third class of "indifferents" receives such as are reserved for further inquiry before a decision of this kind a strict retreat, practically in solitary confinement, during which he receives from a director, yet relying on Thine infinite kindness and mercy and impelled by the desire of serving Thee, before the Most Holy Virgin Mary and all Thy heavenly host, I, N., vow to Thy divine Majesty Poverty, Chastity and Perpetual Obedience to the Society of Jesus, and promise that I will enter the same Society to live in it perpetually, understanding all things according to the Constitutions of the Society.

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  • The announcement of the apparition of the Virgin to an Indian near Mexico City provided a place of pilgrimage and a patroness in Our Lady of Guadalupe; and the friars ingeniously used the hieroglyphic writing for instruction in Christian doctrine, and taught the natives trades, for which they showed much aptitude.

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  • In 1903, however, only about 12% of this was still occupied by a virgin merchantable forest and 69.8% was cut-over or culled land.

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  • The principal merchantable timber of the state is red spruce, and this is found chiefly in the virgin forests which remain in the north, especially in those on the steep mountain slopes between elevations of 1800 ft.

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  • Most of the virgin forests of the northern section were cut in the latter half of the 19th century, while abandoned farms in the south were becoming reforested, and the value of the state's lumber and timber products increased from $1,099,492 in 1850 to $4,286,142 in 1870, and to $9,218,310 in 1900 and then decreased to $7,519,431 in 1905; since 1890 large quantities of wood, chiefly spruce, have also been used in the manufacture of paper and wood pulp. In 1909 a forestry commission was established.

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  • After his subsequent conversion by Laurentius, archbishop of Canterbury, he recalled the bishops Mellitus and Justus, and built a church dedicated to the Virgin at Canterbury.

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  • This, the greatest of all the monuments of the wealth and artistic taste of the Norman kings in northern Sicily, was begun about 1170 by William II., and in 1182 the church, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, was, by a bull of Pope Lucius III., elevated to the rank of a metropolitan cathedral.

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  • The half dome of the central apse has a colossal halflength figure of Christ, with a seated Virgin and Child below; the other apses have full-length colossal figures of St Peter and St Paul.

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  • The town contains also a Byzantine castle, built on the lofty site of the ancient citadel; a palace belonging to the Greek metropolitan; a number of mosques, synagogues and churches, the most remarkable being the church of the Virgin of Consolation, founded in 819.

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  • But it was not till 1857 that he wrote his first poem in Catalan - a copy of verses to the Virgin of Montserrat.

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  • Thus the Virgin river, a northern branch of the Colorado, has cut a vertical slit, 1000 ft.

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  • The present fame of Lourdes is entirely associated with this grotto, where the Virgin Mary is believed in the Roman Catholic world to have revealed herself repeatedly to a peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous in 1858.

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  • A statue of the Virgin stands on a rock projecting above the grotto, the walls of which are covered with crutches atld other votive offerings; the spot, which is resorted to by multitudes of pilgrims from all quarters of the world, is marked by a basilica built above the grotto and consecrated in 1876.

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  • The hymen is a fold of mucous membrane which surrounds the orifice of the vagina and is usually only seen in the virgin.

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  • A Theological Question for the Times (1889); The Authority of the Holy Scripture (1891); The Bible, the Church and the Reason (1892); The Higher Criticism of the Hexateuch (1893); The Messiah of the Gospels (1894) The Messiah of the Apostles (1894); New Light on the Life of Jesus (1904); The Ethical Teaching of Jesus (1904); A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Psalms (2 vols., 1906-1907), in which he was assisted by his daughter; and The Virgin Birth of Our Lord (1909).

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  • In 1879 the village of Knock in the south-east acquired notoriety from a story that the Virgin Mary had appeared in the church, which became the resort of many pilgrims.

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  • Introits were provided for use on every Sunday and Holy-Day; after the offertory intending communicants were directed to " tarry still in the quire or in some convenient place nigh the quire "; in the prayer " for the whole state of Christ's church," the blessed Virgin Mary was commemorated by name among departed saints; prayer for the departed was explicitly retained; also an invocation of the Holy Spirit before the words of institution, the prayer of oblation immediately following them.

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  • The chief of these subsidiary chapels, that of the Blessed Virgin (or Lady chapel), behind the high altar, was often of large size.

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  • Other buildings are the Orthodox Greek monastery of the Trinity, and the Catholic Armenian church (founded in 1398), possessing a 14th-century missal and an image of the Virgin Mary that saw the Mongol invasion of 12 3912 4 2.

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  • The feast of Anahite, the Armenian Venus and spouse of the chief god Aramazd, was in the same way rededicated to the Virgin Mary, who for long was not very clearly distinguished by the Armenians from the virgin mother church.

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  • The Virgin Islands were discovered by Columbus in his second voyage, in 1494, and named Las Virgenes, in honour of St Ursula and her companions.

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  • In the 17th century the Virgin Islands were favourite resorts of the buccaneers.

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  • It was founded on the 10th of January, 142 9 /30 by Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, on the day of his marriage with Isabella of Portugal at Bruges, in her honour and dedicated to the Virgin and St Andrew.

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  • The badge of the order is a blue and white cross suspended from a green laurel wreath, in the angles are golden lilies, and the oval centre bears a figure of the Virgin in a golden glory.

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  • Just as the ancients hung their offerings on trees, temple columns and the images of the gods, so offerings were made to the Cross, to the Virgin Mary and on altars generally.

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  • During the struggles with Barbarossa, when freedom seemed on the point of being destroyed, many Milanese vowed themselves, their goods and their families to the Virgin should their city come safely out of her troubles.

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  • The word ascensio, adopted in the West, implies the ascension of Christ by his own power, in contradistinction to the assumptio, or taking up into heaven of the Virgin Mary by the power of God.

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  • The minster, dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, illustrates every style of architecture from Norman to Perpendicular.

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  • On the hood is a seated figure of the Virgin Mary holding the Infant Saviour.

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  • In the middle is represented the Assumption of the Virgin; on the hood is a seated figure of the Almighty bearing three souls in a napkin.

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  • The abbey was founded in 1163 as a Cluniac monastery by Walter Fitzalan, first High Steward of Scotland, the ancestor of the Scottish royal family of Stuart, and dedicated to the Virgin, St James, St Milburga of Much Wenlock in Shropshire (whence came the first monks) and St Mirinus (St Mirren), the patron-saint of Paisley, who is supposed to have been a contemporary of St Columba.

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  • Maria compositus," consisting of about 160 discourses on the attributes, titles, &c., of the Virgin Mary.

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  • The large castle chapel, dedicated to the Virgin, has some fine monuments.

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  • According to the legend, when he was asleep in the last-named church, the Virgin appeared to him and commanded him to eat a scroll.

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  • The duke died soon after landing, and Sloane's visit lasted only fifteen months; but during that time he got together about Boo new species of plants, the island being virgin ground to the botanist.

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  • From a recumbent figure of Jesse springs a tree bearing in its branches the chief figures in the line of descent, and terminating in the figure of Jesus, or of the Virgin and Child.

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  • About the same time he also founded and endowed a college at Pavia, which he dedicated to Justina, virgin and martyr.

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  • In 1290 the same Hamo obtained a grant of a Tuesday market and a three days' fair at the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin; but in 1319, by a charter from Edward II., the date of the fair was changed to the feast of St James the Apostle.

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  • The building of the college of the Holy Virgin in Nativity, now King's College, was completed in 1506, and the bishop also rebuilt the choir of his cathedral, and built a bridge over the Dee.

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  • His first literary efforts were Latin verses in praise of Ignatius Loyola (1613) and the Virgin Mary (1618); but he is best known as a writer on casuistry.

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  • Having by the Holy Spirit come down from heaven, and having been born of a Hebrew virgin, He took flesh and appeared unto men, to call them back from their error of many gods; and having completed His wonderful dispensation, He was pierced by the Jews, and after three days He revived and went up to heaven.

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  • Capital data are possibly waiting there under ground - the Kabul valley for instance is almost virgin soil for the archaeologist - and any conclusion we can arrive at is merely provisional.

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  • The oldest Coptic church in Cairo is, probably, the Keniset-el-Adra, or Church of the Virgin, which is stated to preserve the original type of Coptic basilica.

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  • The crypt dates from about the 6th century and is dedicated to Sitt Miriam (the Lady Mary), from a tradition that in the flight into Egypt the Virgin and Child rested at this spot.

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  • Of the other churches in Kasresh-Shama the most noteworthy is that of El Adra (the Virgin), also called El 1Vloallaka, or The Suspended, being built in one of the towers of the Roman gateway.

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  • A pillar of earth before the dam is called the Bride of the Nile, and Arab historians relate that this was substituted, at the Moslem conquest, for a virgin whom it was the custom annually to sacrifice, to ensure a plentiful inundation.

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  • He changed his own name from Amenhotp, Ammon is satisfied, to Akhenaton, pious to Aton, erased the name and figure of Ammon from the monuments, even where it occurred as part of his own fathers name, abandoned Thebes, the magnificent city of Ammon, and built a new capital at El Amarna in the plain of Hermopolis, on a virgin site upon the edge of the desert.

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  • Figures of the Virgin and Child, of the apostles and evangelists, the fathers of the Church, the saints and martyrs, with illustrations of sacred history and the Apocalypse, were supplied in endless repetition to satisfy the cravings of a pious and simple-minded people.

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  • In the earliest of the Madonnas, the "Virgin with the Dragon-fly" (49549), Diirer has thrown something of his own rugged energy into a design of the traditional Schongauer type.

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  • In examples of a few years later, like the "Virgin with the Monkey," the design of Mother and Child clearly betrays the influence of Italy and specifically of Lorenzo di Credi.

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  • Chronological and other proofs show that if such a suit was fought at all, it must have been in connexion with another set of Darer's woodcuts, the first seventeen of the Life of the Virgin.

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  • The picture painted by Darer on this commission was the "Adoration of the Virgin," better known as the "Feast of Rose Garlands"; it was subsequently acquired by the emperor Rudolf II., and carried as a thing beyond price upon men's shoulders to Vienna; it now exists in a greatly injured state in the monastery of Strahow at Prague.

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  • It shows the pope and emperor, with a lute-playing angel between them, kneeling to right and left of the enthroned Virgin and Child, who crown them with rose garlands, with a multitude of other kneeling saints disposed with free symmetry in the background, and farther in the background portraits of the donor and the painter, and a flutter of wreath-carrying cherubs in the air.

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  • A similar festal intention in design and colouring, with similar mastery in passages and even less sense of harmonious relations in the whole, is apparent in a second important picture painted by Darer at Venice, "The Virgin and Child with the Goldfinch," formerly in the collection of Lord Lothian and now at Berlin.

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  • In 1509 followed the "Assumption of the Virgin" with the Apostles gathered about her tomb, a rich altarpiece with figures of saints and portraits of the donor and his wife in the folding wings, executed for Jacob Heller, a merchant of Frankfort, in 1509.

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  • In the meantime Darer had added a few to the number of his line-engravings and had completed the two woodcut series of the Great Passion, begun about 1498-1499, and the Life of the Virgin.

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  • Almost the only well-authenticated painting of the time is a "Virgin and Child" in the Imperial Museum at Vienna.

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  • The other work similarly enclosed represents the burial of the Virgin and is the later of the two in date and in the pure Renaissance style.

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  • Its name - of which Maroy and Mourie are older variants - does not, as is often supposed, commemorate the Virgin, but St Maelrubha, who came from Bangor in Ireland in 671 and founded a monastery at Applecross and a chapel (now in ruins) on Isle Maree.

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  • The question whether a crucifix or rood standing alone or combined with figures of the Blessed Virgin and St John can, in any circumstances, be regarded as merely decorative, has given rise to a difference of judicial opinion and appears to be unsettled."

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  • In France St Martin remained the chief goal of the pilgrim; while Notre Dame de Sous-Terre in Chartres (with a portrait of the "black Virgin"), Le Puy-en-Velay (dep. Haute Loire), and others, also enjoyed considerable celebrity.

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  • No new motives for the pilgrimage emerged in the 19th century, unless the ever-increasing cultus of the Virgin Mary may be classed as such, all of the new devotional sites being dedicated to the Virgin.

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  • The church of St Mary the Virgin, a beautiful specimen of the Perpendicular style, dating from the reign of Henry VII., but frequently repaired and restored, contains the tomb of Lord Audley, chancellor to Henry VIII.

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  • It is divided into three parts, each containing five decades, a decade comprising i Pater, 10 Ayes and a Gloria, in addition to a subject for meditation selected from the "mysteries" of the life of Christ and of the Blessed Virgin.

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  • The southern portal is remarkable for a figure of the Virgin and other statuary.

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  • At Arsuf or Joppa - neither of them far from Lydda - Perseus had slain the sea-monster that threatened the virgin Andromeda, and George, like many another Christian saint, entered into the inheritance of veneration previously enjoyed by a pagan hero.'

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  • The progress of Catholicism was undeniable, but yet Wiseman found himself steadily opposed by a minority among his own clergy, who disliked his Ultramontane ideas, his Romanizing and innovating zeal," especially in regard to the introduction of sacred images into the churches and the use of devotions to the Blessed Virgin and the Blessed Sacrament, hitherto unknown among English Catholics.

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  • Marco (now converted into a national museum), a series of frescoes, beginning towards 1443; in the first cloister is the Crucifixion with St Dominic kneeling; and the same treatment recurs on a wall near the dormitory; in the chapterhouse is a third Crucifixion, with the Virgin swooning, a composition of twenty life-sized figures - the red background, which has a strange and harsh effect, is the misdoing of some restorer; an "Annunciation," the figures of about three-fourths of life-size, in a dormitory; in the adjoining passage, the "Virgin enthroned," with four saints; on the wall of a cell, the "Coronation of the Virgin," with Saints Paul, Thomas Aquinas, Benedict, Dominic, Francis and Peter Martyr; two Dominicans welcoming Jesus, habited as a pilgrim; an "Adoration of the Magi"; the "Marys at the Sepulchre."

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  • All these works are later than the altarpiece which Angelico painted (as before mentioned) for the choir connected with this convent, and which is now in the academy of Florence; it represents the Virgin with Saints Cosmas and Damian (the patrons of the Medici family), Dominic, Peter, Francis, Mark, John Evangelist and Stephen; the pediment illustrated the lives of Cosmas and Damian, but it has long been severed from the main subject.

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  • In the Uffizi gallery, an altarpiece, the Virgin (life-sized) enthroned, with the Infant and twelve angels.

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  • This predella was highly lauded by Vasari; still more highly another picture which used to form an altarpiece in Fiesole, and which now obtains world-wide celebrity in the Louvre - the "Coronation of the Virgin," with eight predella subjects of the miracles of St.

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  • Maria Novella, a "Coronation of the Virgin," with a predella in three stctions, now in the Uffizi, - this again is one of his masterpieces.

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  • All this went to feed revival, which, founded on fear, refused to see in Jesus Christ anything but a stern judge, and made the Virgin Mother and Anna the "grandmother" the intercessors; which found consolation in pilgrimages from shrine to shrine; which believed in crude miracles, and in the thought that God could be best served within convent walls.

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  • The latter is the case of the Virgin's Fountain (Ain Umm ed-Daraj), which is the only natural source of water in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem.

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  • There may further be mentioned the remnant of the Saxon collegiate church of the canons of St Martin, and the parish church of St Mary the Virgin.

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  • The Punjab henceforth became a British province, supplying a virgin field for the administrative talents of Dalhousie and the two Lawrences.

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  • According to Plutarch she urged her husband to take vigorous action against Catiline, who had compromised her half-sister Fabia, a vestal virgin; also to give evidence against Clodius, being jealous of his sister Clodia.

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  • In the middle stands the huge volcano Cherimai, clad with virgin forest and coffee plantations, and surrounded at its foot by rice fields.

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  • Even in Upper Egypt a few decades ago, there was a tomb of the Mahommedan sheikh Heridi, who - it is alleged - was transformed into a serpent; in cases of sickness a spotless virgin entered the cave and the serpentoccupant might permit itself to be taken in procession to the patient.

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  • Men thought they were witnessing the dawn of a new era in the East; Mehemet Ali was hailed as the most beneficent and enlightened of princes; and political philosophers like Jeremy Bentham, who sent him elaborate letters of good advice, thought to find in him the means for developing their theories in virgin soil.

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  • Large tracts of these uplands have never been adequately explored, and consist cif virgin forest and prairie.

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  • Other parts of the castle are the pentagonal tower, the oldest building in the town, wherein are preserved the famous "iron virgin of Nuremberg," and other instruments of torture; the granary (Kornhaus), also called the Kaiserstallung; and the Vestnertor or Vestnerturm.

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  • Even in his time there were sceptics who pointed dubiously to the full-grown bones of "widows" and of men among the so-called virgin relics.

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  • It is a pax with a very rich and delicate niello picture of the coronation of the Virgin; the composition is very full, and the work almost microscopic in minuteness; it was made in 1452.

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  • Another most imposing structure is the theatre, dating from the time of the emperor Hadrian and built against a hill from the summit of which a colossal figure of the Virgin commands the town.

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  • It obviously reappears elsewhere, as it is the natural attitude of prayer, and may be seen in the pious homage of the pilgrims to the Virgin of Loretto or Einsiedeln.

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  • The Virgin, the angelic hierarchy, the saints, have received the believer's homage, and answered his petitions.

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  • Native copper, sometimes termed by miners malleable or virgin copper, occurs as a mineral having all the properties of the smelted metal.

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  • In 1118, according to tradition, but more probably as late as 1138, David, prince of Cumbria, here founded a priory for Augustinian monks from the abbey of St Quentin at Beauvais in France, and in 1147, after he had become king, erected it into an abbey dedicated to the Virgin.

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  • In these caverns there are numerous stalactite structures, which, from their curious and fantastic shapes, have received such names as the Image of the Virgin, the Mosaic Altar, &c. The principal parts are the Paradies with the finest stalactites, the Astronomical Tower and the Beinhaus.

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  • He appears to have been a convert from Paganism to Christianity, although it was asserted in later times that his father had been a bishop. That report is probably as untrustworthy as another, that he was excommunicated from the Church for seducing a virgin.

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  • He liked books and quiet corners all his days, he says; and so, when conviction of sin and visions of God's grace came to him in the medieval fashion of a dream of the anger and forgiveness of the Virgin, Florentius told him that a monk's life would suit him best, advised him to join the Augustinian order, and sent him to Zwolle to the new convent of Mount St Agnes, where his brother John was prior.

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  • According to local belief, Ephesus was also the last home of the Virgin, who was lodged near the city by St John and there died.

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  • On this occasion Nestorius was condemned, and the honour of the Virgin established as Theotokus, amid great popular rejoicing, due, doubtless, in some measure to the hold which the cult of the virgin Artemis still had on the city.

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  • As to the blessing of candles, according to the Liber pontificals Pope Zosimus in 417 ordered these to be blessed, 8 and the Gallican and Mozabaric rituals also provided for this ceremony.9 The Feast of the Purification of the Virgin, known as Candlemas, because on this day the candles for the whole year are blessed, was established - according to some authorities - by Pope Gelasius I.

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  • Although representing less value in the aggregate, the collecting of cinchona bark is one of the oldest forest industries of Bolivia, which is said still to have large areas of virgin forest to draw upon.

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  • In the 14th century the abbot of Fecamp held weekly markets in the borough on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and fairs at the Nativity of the Virgin and the Feast of St Michael, by prescriptive right.

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  • Varro's greatest predecessor in this field of inquiry, the man who turned over the virgin soil, was Cato the Censor.

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  • Virgin soils are densely compact.

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  • He published valuable works, notably De servorum Dei beatificatione et canonizatione, De sacrificio missae, as well as a treatise on the feasts of Christ and the Virgin and of some saints honoured in Bologna.

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  • This is confirmed by Eusebius, who adds that even those who admitted the virgin birth did not accept the pre-existence of Jesus as Logos and Sophia.

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  • The virgin forests of the Kuznetsk Ala-tau - the Chern, or Black Forest of the Russians - are peopled by Tatars, who live in very small settlements, sometimes of the Russian type, but mostly in wooden yurts or huts of the Mongolian fashion.

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  • Besides the Triune God there is no other object of divine worship, but homage (inrepSovXia) may be paid to the Virgin Mary, and reverence (SovXia) to the saints and to their pictures and relics.

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  • It has long been a place of pilgrimage to which Roman Catholics, especially from Austria, Bavaria and Swabia resort in large numbers, on account of a celebrated image of the Virgin Mary in the Holy Chapel, which also contains the hearts of some Bavarian princes in silver caskets.

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  • Such subjects as the Deity, the Trinity, the Annunciation,the Nativity, the Crucifixion, the Coronation of the Virgin, are not uncommon.

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  • Chapter seals may bear the patron saint, or a representation, more or less conventional, of the cathedral; monastic seals may have figures of the Virgin Mary, or other patron saint, or of the founder, or of abbot or abbess; or the conventual building.

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  • It was in connexion with this controversy that Charlemagne wrote the so-called Libri Carolini, to which Adrian replied by letter, anathematizing all who refused to worship the images of Christ, or the Virgin, or saints.

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  • A statue of the Virgin Mary here is visited annually (especially during May) by thousands from Pangasinan and adjoining provinces.

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  • The trail entered what is now Utah, just east of the Dolores river, crossed the Grand river near the Sierra La Salle and the Green river at the present crossing of the Denver & Rio Grande railway, proceeded thence to the Sevier river and southward along its valley to the headwaters of the Virgin river, which it followed southward, and then westward, so that its line' left the present state near its south-west corner.

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  • A small and charming strip of an oblong "Annunciation" at the Louvre is generally accepted as his work, done soon after 1470; a very highly wrought drawing at the Uffizi, corresponding on a larger scale to the head of the Virgin in the same picture, seems rather to be a copy by a later hand.

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  • The National Gallery "Virgin of the Rocks" certainly, with help from Ambrogio de Predis; in this the Florentine character of the original is modified by an admixture of Milanese elements, the tendency to harshness and over-elaboration of detail softened, the strained action of the angel's pointing hand altogether dropped, while in many places pupils' work seems recognizable beside that of the master.

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  • The subject was the Virgin seated in the lap of St Anne, bending forward to hold her child who had half escaped from her embrace to play with a lamb upon the ground.

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  • In this incomparable work St Anne, pointing upward with her left hand, smiles with an intense look of wondering, questioning, inward sweetness into the face of the Virgin, who in her turn smiles down upon her child as He leans from her lap to give the blessing to the little St John standing beside her.

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  • This, whether done at Milan or at Florence, is in any case a typically perfect and harmonious example of the master's Milanese manner; while in the other composition with the lamb the action and attitude of the Virgin are somewhat strained, and the original relation between her head and her mother's, lovely both in design and expression, is lost.

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  • One was no doubt that just mentioned; can the other have been the Louvre "Virgin with St Anne and St John," now at last completed from the cartoon exhibited in 1501?

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  • But he showed the cardinal three pictures, the portrait of a Florentine lady done for Giuliano de' Medici (the Gioconda ?), the Virgin in the lap of St Anne (the Louvre picture; finished at Florence or Milan 1507-1513?), and a youthful John the Baptist.

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  • The 8 th-century Gelasian Sacramentary, which embodies a much older tradition, mentions it under the title of Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which has led some to suppose that it was ordained by Pope Gelasius I.

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  • In the Quadragesimae de Epiphania as described by Etheria there is, as Monsignor Duchesne points out (Christian Worship, p. 272), no indication of a special association with the Blessed Virgin; and the distinction between the festival as celebrated in the East and West is that in the former it is a festival of Christ, in the latter a festival pre-eminently of the Virgin Mother.

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  • Thousands of square miles in Lower Bengal annually receive a top-dressing of virgin soil from the Himalayas, - a system of natural manuring which renders elaborate tillage a waste of labour, and defies the utmost power of over-cropping to exhaust its fertility.

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  • It also abolished those associated with the cult of the Blessed Virgin and the saints.

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  • The toe of the famous statue of the apostle in St Peter's, Rome, shows marked wear caused by the kisses of pilgrims. In the Roman Church a distinction is made between Latvia, a worship due to God alone, and Dulia or Hyperdulia, the adoration paid to the Virgin, saints, martyrs, crucifixes, &c..

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  • In the reign of Elizabeth the market was held on Monday, and there were two annual fairs at the feasts of the Purification of the Virgin and the Decollation of John the Baptist.

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  • He also was discovered by Radulescu, who published his first and best known poem, " The Dying Virgin."

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  • Printed in tens of thousands of copies are certain apocalyptic legends dealing with eschatological problems. The ancient Apocalypse of Peter appears here under the name of Paul, then there is an Apocalypse of the Virgin Mary, who, like Peter, is carried by the Archangel through the torments of Hell and the bliss of Paradise, and through whose intervention sufferers are granted pardon on certain days of the year.

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  • Thus in England, especially the northern counties, there was a custom (now extinct) for poor women to carry round the "Advent images," two dolls dressed one to represent Christ and the other the Virgin Mary.

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  • Pomerania, protected on the south by virgin forests and almost impenetrable morasses, was in those days inhabited by a valiant and savage Slavonic race akin to the Wends, who clung to paganism with unconquerable obstinacy.

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  • He continued to work the gold-field which he had discovered, and to draw from it new treasures, not indeed with quite such ease and in quite such abundance as when the precious soil was still virgin, but yet with success, which left all competition far behind.

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  • A Catholic version of his parable may be seen with the head of the virgin in the title-page.

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  • In Geoffrey of Monmouth's tract, De prophetiis Merlini, there is a reference to an ancient prophecy of the enchanter Merlin concerning a virgin ex nemore canuto, and it appears that this nemus canutum had been identified in folk-lore with the oak wood of Domremy.

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  • In 1665 and 1670 some versifications of devotional works addressed to the Virgin had appeared.

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  • There is, however, a certain coolness about the hero's affection for his wife which somewhat detracts from the merit of his sacrifice; while the Christian part of the matter is scarcely so well treated as in the Saint Genest of Rotrou or the Virgin Martyr of Massinger.

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  • A virgin martyr who is threatened with loss of honour as a bitterer punishment than loss of life offers points as powerful as they are perilous.

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  • The church of Notre-Dame contains a fine De Crayer (The Adoration of the Magi), Michelangelo's marble group of the Virgin and Child, and the fine monuments with gilded copper effigies of Charles the Bold and his daughter, Mary of Burgundy.

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  • The cathedral is a Romanesque building, mainly of the 12th century, the most prominent feature of which is the gilded statue of the Virgin which surmounts the western tower.

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  • The church of St Mary the Virgin has fine Perpendicular work and traces of Norman work.

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  • The font was viewed as the womb of the virgin mother church, who was in some congregations, for example, in the early churches of Gaul, no abstraction, but a divine aeon watching over and sympathizing with the children of her womb, the recipient even of hymns of praise and humble supplications.

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  • An archway leading down to the shore bears an inscription showing that it was erected by George Culmer in 1540, and not far off is the site of a chapel of the Virgin, to which ships were accustomed to lower their top-sails as they passed.

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  • The Fast of the Nativity lasts for twenty-eight days before Christmas; that of the Apostles for a variable number of days from the Feast of the Ascension; and that of the Virgin for fifteen days before the Assumption.

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  • The evens or vigils before Christmas, the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Easter day, Ascension day, Pentecost, St Matthias, the Nativity of St John Baptist, St Peter, St James, St Bartholomew, St Matthew, St Simon and St Jude, St Andrew, St Thomas, and All Saints are also recognized as " fast days."

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  • Among its chief features are the Virgin Martyrs' Memorial, representing in white marble a guardian angel and the figures of Margaret M`Lauchlan and Margaret Wilson, who were drowned by the rising tide in Wigtown Bay for their fidelity to the Covenant (1685);(1685); the large pyramid to the memory of the Covenanters, and the Ladies' Rock, from which ladies viewed the jousts in the Valley.

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  • It has further been argued that the narratives of the Virgin birth (Matthew, Luke) are an intermediate stage in Christology.

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  • When pre-existence is clearly taught (Paul, John), virgin birth, it is suggested, loses its importance; another theory of Divine Sonship has established itself.

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  • The idea of Artemis '.s a virgin goddess, the "queen and huntress, chaste and fair," which obtained great prominence in early times, and seems inconsistent with her association with childbirth, is generally explained as due to her connexion with Apollo, but it is suggested by Farnell that irapOE'os originally meant "unmarried," and that "Apreµcs 7r-ap9Evos may have been originally the goddess of a people who had not yet the advanced Hellenic institutions of settled marriage.

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  • A terrible outbreak of plague occurred in Moscow in 1771, and the populace began to throng round an image of the Virgin to which they attributed supernatural healing power.

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  • So long as there was so much virgin land to be brought under cultivation, it is surprising that it has increased at all, since the tendency everywhere is to "skin" the rich, new lands first.

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  • The yield, which is rough, unequal and woody in texture, is called virgin cork, and is useful only as a tanning substance, or for forming rustic work in ferneries, conservatories, &c. Subsequently the bark is removed every eight or ten years, the quality of the cork improving with each successive stripping; and the trees continue to live and thrive under the operation for 150 years and upwards.

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  • The lives of the Virgin, the Apostles and the Saints fill many MSS.

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  • The church is chiefly celebrated, however, for its miraculous image of the Virgin.

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  • Rubber was obtained mostly from virgin forest, but ceara, ficus and other trees were planted.

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  • Of ordinary immorality it took little notice, and the triumph of its cause in the 16th and 17th centuries, while producing such types of ecstatic piety as St Theresa (qv.), the Sor Mariade Jesus (Maria Agreda), (q.v.) and the Venerable Virgin Luisa de Carvajal, was accompanied by an extraordinary development of moral laxity.

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  • The central and southern Sudan is therefore almost a virgin field for the archaeologist, but the exploration of Lower Nubia has made it possible to write a tentative preface to the new chapters still unrevealed.

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  • The Orthodox Greek cathedral (1839) contains a very ancient and highly venerated image of the Virgin.

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  • It has a fine brick campanile and brick decoration, and contains a bronze triptych of 1358 in niello, with the Virgin and Child.

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  • Hence this kind of press finds only limited application, as in the industry of olive oil for expressing the best and finest virgin oil, and in the production of animal fats for edible purposes, such as lard and oleomargarine.

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  • Oils so obtained are known in commerce as "cold drawn oils," "cold pressed oils," "salad oils," "virgin oils."

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  • Over the main entrance is a large mosaic of Christ enthroned, with the Virgin and St John, by the artist Solsernus (1207).

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  • He mused that a red headed, female, virgin with O negative blood tasted like fine aged Port.

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  • Everyone thought she was being immature about this – as if there were something ridiculous about the idea of a 25-year-old virgin.

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  • The top standard is extra virgin olive oil classified as having an absolutely impeccable taste and aroma.

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  • The hidden meaning of deflowering a virgin is developed in the following lines.

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  • The company is also aware that contractors disposing of construction waste require virgin aggregate.

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  • Look up buying airtime on the Virgin Mobile website.

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  • A holy virgin who left Ireland for Brittany and became an anchoress in a hermitage near Brieuc.

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  • After draining, if serving immediately the asparagus can be dressed with either extra virgin olive oil, melted butter or walnut oil.

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  • I think the first thing to mention is the traveling was much better than expected thanks to the excellent in-flight entertainment on virgin Atlantic.

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  • Back to top 1. 14th century lead pilgrims ' badge, showing the " Virgin of the Sea " .

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  • Then " First Aid " which explores the experiences of a virgin first-aider on a bloody battlefield.

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  • Thorn forests, virgin rainforests, flowering cacti, extensive forests of monkey-puzzle trees and southern beech are also protected.

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  • St Mary the Virgin Exbourne Devon Exbourne is a village of 400 people in mid-Devon and is part of a four parish benefice.

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  • Virgin would also like to develop a biofuel suitable for aircraft engines, although it concedes this could be a decade away.

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  • Due to the virgin birth Jesus Christ was exempted from the curse of Adam with which we have all been imputed.

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  • Christ the only begotten Son of God in respect of his miraculous birth of the Virgin by divine power without a father Acts 13.

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  • Wherefore, we magnify thee, O most blessed Virgin.

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  • Is it the case that Mary was a perpetual Virgin, was conceived immaculately, and ascended bodily into Heaven?

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  • The church formerly contained a richly endowed chantry, under the invocation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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  • The virgin birth was the key to orthodox Christology " (p 64 ).

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  • Out of Kennedy Virgin Atlantic has recently opened a new clubhouse in a prime location in the new Terminal 4 building.

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  • In 1483 Leonardo was commissioned by the confraternity of the Immaculate Conception to paint The Virgin of the Rocks.

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  • Virgin Cayo Guillermo beaches still offer a true sense of tranquility and romance, making Cayo Guillermo holidays a favorite with honeymoon couples.

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  • By recovering textiles, merchants are reducing the demand for virgin resources.

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  • If it all gets too energetic, you could always do a hiking pub crawl and raise a glass to the virgin huntress.

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  • And when it comes to the Virgin Birth the Bishops ' language is equally evasive.

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  • Good sources of these fats include extra virgin olive oil, canola oil, ground flax seeds and walnuts.

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  • Within the temple of Artemis, the virgin goddess, there were ritualistic prostitutes.

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  • Hotel information This hotel boasts a great health spa, and there are special discounts on treatments for Virgin Holidays ' guests.

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  • By His virgin birth, He was not imputed with the sin which the rest of us were imputed.

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  • No, far from it as many modern recycled papers are visually indistinguishable from 100% virgin papers.

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  • James IV was rescued from the River, James IV believed his rescue was thanks to the divine intervention of the Virgin Mary.

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  • Nowadays, the cotton is from virgin cotton linters.

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  • It wears a special livery for Virgin Rail Links.

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  • Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, the Virgin Birth, all those miracles - they are all so obviously made-up.

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  • A virgin martyr in Rome whose relics are now venerated in Los Angeles, of which she is the main patron-saint.

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  • Virgin is about to open a 22 screen multiplex in Glasgow, the largest cinema in Europe.

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  • Extra virgin olive oil is particularly well known and used for its medicinal and therapeutic benefits.

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  • A spoonful of extra virgin olive oil a day on an empty stomach helps the intestine to function properly and treats constipation.

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  • They concluded that a mixture of compounds, called phenols, extracted from virgin olive oil could safeguard against colon cancer.

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  • A Northumbrian piper was at Morpeth station last week (Monday 12 December 2005) to greet a new service from Virgin Trains.

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  • Virgin first to create a daily podcast in March.

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  • Ayr also exports virgin log pulp to Finland, with regular shipment sizes in excess of 3,000 tons.

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  • All of the wood pulp used to make virgin fiber office paper in the UK is imported.

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  • The drone's sole function is to mate with virgin queens (from which act he dies ).

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  • His spirited rendition of " Like a Virgin " is classic.

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  • And a grilled cheese sandwich bearing the image of the Virgin Mary.

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  • August -- Barley Moon Persephone, virgin Goddess of rebirth, carries a sheaf of barley as a symbol of the harvest.

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  • A willingness to call the Virgin Mary Theotokos is an important shibboleth for Christological orthodoxy.

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  • Trip including catalina fincantieri shipyard in lines ' capacity from virgin territory.

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  • Virgin Trains said a signalman had made a mistake in routing the 9.40am service via Coventry, 110 miles from its intended destination.

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  • The initial spurt of interest was due to the end user population also being virgin territory.

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  • But virgin swizzles usually set by set sail on the left.

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  • Murdoch questioned the logic of UK cable operator ntl's attempted takeover of Virgin Mobile.

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  • This frustration of evil intent follows a common topos of virgin martyrs ' deaths, as does Catherine's eventual demise by beheading.

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  • You need to book a place for your bike in the guard's van on the Virgin express services.

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  • The most unlikely location to house a snooker room, also vies for the most tempting location - The British Virgin Islands.

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  • This area is the future and is still virgin.

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  • I was no virgin; nor had I really experienced an intense affair.

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  • For Proof coins only virgin materials are used so that the cast metal is free from impurities.

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  • So who would the holiday be through you say its not virgin so who is it with as in flights ect.

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  • Key Stage 3, however, is still relatively virgin territory.

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  • The teaching about the assumption of the body of the blessed virgin into heaven used to be doctrine.

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  • Or at this time of year by denying the virgin birth?

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  • There's a particularly vitriolic diatribe against Branson's Virgin empire.

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  • After a road had been cut on the virgin heath the Steam Sappers hauled wagons from the supply railhead at Tongham.

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  • Recycled paper can be made using less water and less than 50% of the energy of paper made from virgin wood pulp.

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  • In 1571 Elizabeth granted to the town a market on Tuesday and two fairs each to last two days, at the feasts of St George the Martyr and the Conception of the Virgin.

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  • She is represented as a youthful virgin, with wings of gold, who hurries with the swiftness of the wind from one end of the world to the other, into the depths of the sea and the underworld.

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  • We may name, besides those already specified - in the Naples Museum, " St Euphemia," a fine early work; in Casa Melzi, Milan, the " Madonna and Child with Chanting Angels " (1461); in the Tribune of the Uffizi, Florence, three pictures remarkable for scrupulous finish; in the Berlin Museum, the " Dead Christ with two Angels "; in the Louvre, the two celebrated pictures of mythic allegory- " Parnassus " and " Minerva Triumphing over the Vices "; in the National Gallery, London, the " Agony in the Garden," the " Virgin and Child Enthroned, with the Baptist and the Magdalen," a late example; the monochrome of " Vestals," brought from Hamilton Palace; the " Triumph of Scipio " (or Phrygian Mother of the Gods received by the Roman Commonwealth), a tempera in chiaroscuro, painted only a few months before the master's death; in the Brera, Milan, the " Dead Christ, with the two Maries weeping," a remarkable tour de force in the way of foreshortening, which, though it has a stunted appearance, is in correct technical perspective as seen from all points of view.

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  • Consequently, beetles of this family are most abundant in forest regions, and reach their highest development in the dense virgin forests of tropical countries, South America being particularly rich in peculiar genera.

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  • He held that, though Christ was God and man from his birth from the Virgin, he only attained his complete deification and glorification by his ascension, and that it is in the estate of his celestial Vergotterung or glorification that he is the dispenser of his divine life to those who by faith become one with him.

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  • In the winter of 1190-91 certain pious merchants from Bremen and Lubeck (towns with which the Order was still to be connected in the days of its later history) laid the foundations of a hospital in a vessel which they had drawn ashore.(fn2) Within a few years the foundation apparently became attached to the German Church of St Mary the Virgin at Jerusalem; and in March 1198 (there being present in the Holy Land a number of Germans, the relics of Henry VI.'s projected crusade), the great men of the army and the kingdom raised the brethren of the German Hospital of St Mary to the rank of an order of knights.

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  • On the way, he was joined by a Moor, who began to jest at some of the Christian doctrines, especially at the perpetual virginity of the Blessed Virgin.

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  • Catherine was then scourged and cast into prison, and the empress was sent to reason with her; but the dauntless virgin converted not only the empress but the Roman ' See the study in Baron Fr.

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  • The dialogue is entitled, The Book of Divine Doctrine, given in person by God the Father, speaking to the mind of the most glorious and holy virgin Catherine of Siena, and written down as she dictated it in the vulgar tongue, she being the while entranced, and actually hearing what God spoke in her.

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  • The Greek Church rejects as heretical, because contrary to the teaching of the first seven ecumenical councils, the Roman dogmas of the papacy, of the double procession of the Holy Ghost, the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary, and the infallibility of the Pope.

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  • To this summary of doctrine should be added the dogmas of the immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin declared in 1854, and of papal infallibility decreed by the Vatican council of 1870.

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  • The former is the attitude which the Latin Church officially inculcates towards sacred pictures and statues; they are intended to convey to the eyes of the faithful, especially to the illiterate among them, the history of Jesus, of the Virgin and of the saints.

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  • The word is used in a special sense of the service, reverence and honour paid, by means of devotional words or acts, to God, to the gods, or to hallowed persons, such as the Virgin Mary or the saints, and hallowed objects, such as holy images or relics.

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  • They ceased to appeal to the Virgin and saints, and to venerate images and relics, procure indulgences and go on pilgrimages, they deprecated the monastic life, and no longer nourished faith by the daily repetition of miracles, but in the witch persecutions their demonology cost the lives of thousands of innocent women.

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  • And yet the Roman Catholic Church had upon its hands one great unsettled question - the thesis of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin.

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  • It has a fine doorway with a bas-relief by Andrea della Robbia over it; but the most striking external feature is the lovely open-air pulpit at an angle of the building, erected by Donatello and Michelozzo for displaying to the people without risk the Virgin's girdle, brought from the Holy Land by a knight of Prato in 1130.

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  • The Chapel of the Girdle has good frescoes by Agnoio Gaddi (1365), a statue of the Virgin by Giovanni Pisano, and a handsome bronze open-work screen.

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  • Thus white honeysuckle and false honeysuckle are names for the North American Azalea viscosa; Australian or heath honeysuckle is the Australian Banksia serrata, Jamaica honeysuckle, Passiflora laurifolia, dwarf honeysuckle the widely spread Cornus suecica, Virgin Mary's honeysuckle the European Pulmonaria officinalis, while West Indian honeysuckle is Tecoma capensis, and is also 'a' name applied to Desmodium.

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  • Of the British portion of the group the principal are Tortola, Anegada, Virgin Gorda, Jost van Dyke, Peter's Island and Salt Island, in all numbering 32, with an area of 58 sq.

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  • There is no contemporary confirmation of the story that the rosary was given to St Dominic through revelation of the Blessed Virgin and was employed during the crusade against the Albigenses, although the story was later accepted by Leo X., Pius V., Gregory XIII., Sixtus V., Alexander VII., Innocent XI.

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  • The year 1854 was marked by his presence in Rome at the definition of the dogma of the immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin (8th December), and by the publication of his historical romance, Fabiola, a tale of the Church of the Catacombs, which had a very wide circulation and was translated into ten languages.

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  • In 1854 he gave a great impulse to the cultus of the Virgin by proclaiming her Immaculate Conception a dogma of the Church (see Immaculate Conception).

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  • Their most notable representative was Robert Cooke, but they were more notorious for heretical views as to the Virgin Mary (see Anabaptists) than for their anti-paedobaptist position.

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  • The second part enters upon the history of the crusade itself, and tells how Joinville pledged all his land save so much as would bring in a thousand livres a year, and started with a brave retinue of nine knights (two of whom besides himself wore bannerets), and shared a ship with the sire d'Aspremont, leaving Joinville without raising his eyes,"pour ce que le cuer ne me attendrisist du biau chastel que je lessoie et de mes deux enfans"; how they could not get out of sight of a high mountainous island (Lampedusa or Pantellaria) till they had made a procession round the masts in honour of the Virgin; how they reached first Cyprus and then Egypt; how they took Damietta, and then entangled themselves in the Delta.

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  • The Virgin receives homage, but the dogma of her Immaculate Conception is not admitted.

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  • There is, however, a certain coolness about the hero's affection for his wife which somewhat detracts from the merit of his sacrifice; while the Christian part of the' matter is scarcely so well treated as in the Saint Genest of Rotrou or the Virgin Martyr of Massinger.

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  • It gained a notable victory when that pope, acting on his own authority, defined (1854) as of faith a doctrine which had been long and hotly discussed - the Immaculate or absolutely sinless Conception (deeper than mere sinlessness in act and life) of the Blessed Virgin.

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  • Heitsi Eibib, like countless other gods and heroes, is also said to have been the son of a virgin who tasted a particular plant, and so became pregnant, as in the German and Gallophrygian marchen of the almond tree, given by Grimm and Pausanias.

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  • Nothing can surpass in beauty the rank grasses and bright flowers that grow on the lowlands and rolling uplands of a virgin prairie - now hardly to be found in the state.

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  • An hour later a squad of soldiers arrived and Pierre with thirteen others was led to the Virgin's Field.

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  • These bells reminded Pierre that it was Sunday and the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin.

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  • He and the other prisoners were taken to the right side of the Virgin's Field, to a large white house with an immense garden not far from the convent.

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  • The drone 's sole function is to mate with virgin queens (from which act he dies).

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  • Virgin Money Loans - Premier Listing Borrow £ 2,000 - £ 25,000 at a typical rate of 6.9% APR.

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  • Virgin would have happily put out and raved about an album of Malaysian flute music if it meant financial gain.

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  • I picked up ' A Musical Evening With The Mick Abrahams Band ' in Virgin 's remainder bin in late 1977 for £ 1.49.

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  • Island the virgin caribbean cruise galveston royal texas a true conservative were on our.

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  • Shere now claims to control two-thirds of the self-serve rail ticket machine market in Britain, with customers ranging from GNER to Virgin Trains.

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  • Lowly whispered prayers to the saints and the Virgin, followed by shouts of praise or reproach to bulls and matadors !

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  • A few years ago we split the music scene in half with a band of snotty kids called The Virgin Suicides.

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  • My linguistic counterpart for your ' Virgin Mary ' is what Levin calls ' The Sonorous Ground of Being '.

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  • Virgin Record Stores do n't do a ' good deal ' on a gross of stinger missiles to the Arabs, or Iraqis.

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  • The US has a new Spaceport from which Britain 's Virgin Galactic plans to transport tourists into suborbital space by 2008.

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  • Murdoch questioned the logic of UK cable operator ntl 's attempted takeover of Virgin Mobile.

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  • This frustration of evil intent follows a common topos of virgin martyrs ' deaths, as does Catherine 's eventual demise by beheading.

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  • Mill waste (virgin fiber trimmings etc) scores 50.

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  • Sailing november on includes virgin gorda is a specific.

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  • Did you know that the long grass which grows where virgin rainforest once stood is called American Grass?

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  • Pour a little extra virgin olive oil in a large frying pan.

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  • First, we are of course speak ing of the virginal conception of Jesus, not, strictly, of the virgin birth.

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  • How many many times have the visionaries of the Virgin been children?

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  • There 's a particularly vitriolic diatribe against Branson 's Virgin empire.

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  • You can easily substitute sparkling white wine for champagne in any of the recipes below, or if you are interested in making "virgin" cocktails, you can substitute mineral water as well.

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  • Grenadine syrup is used in many alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, such as a Virgin Shirley Temple.

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  • The points can be redeemed for airline tickets on Virgin Airlines.

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  • DivorceRecordsUSA.com provides copies of records from the United States, as well as Guam, Northern Mariana, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.

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  • For most items, it takes less energy to process the recycled materials than it does to use virgin materials.

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  • Consumers can also purchase paper products made from recycled materials, often at cheaper prices than virgin wood pulp products.

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  • These products have been made from paper that has already been returned for recycling at least once, and with modern refinements in recycling technology, these products are generally the same quality as virgin paper products.

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  • Studies have shown that biodiesel from virgin vegetable oil reduces carbon dioxide emissions and petroleum consumption when used in place of petroleum diesel.

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  • This both reduces the call on virgin materials and also reduces the amount of waste that goes into landfills.

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  • Glass can be reused over and over, and recycled glass saves energy at 50 percent, versus creating virgin glass.

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  • Recycling and reusing items reduces the need for brand new items made using virgin materials.

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  • Recycling and repurposing items into different products also reduces the amount of virgin materials that go into making new goods as well as reducing the energy that is spent creating new goods.

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  • Using a simple procedure that yields complex chemical results, ozone gas is bubbled through extra virgin olive oil at room temperature over a period of weeks.

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  • Right now, the ISBN coordinator of record for the United States, US Virgin Islands, Guam, and Puerto Rico is R.R.

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  • Choices are virgin, extra virgin, and ordinary virgin.

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  • In a saucepan, heat 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil until it begins to shimmer.

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  • The ingredients you need are 10 medium tomatoes, half a cucumber, half a green bell pepper, three tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, cayenne pepper and minced garlic to taste.

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  • Country crooner Kenney Chesney and Bridgette Jones actress Renee Zellweger caught the world by surprise when they successfully pulled off a secret beach wedding in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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  • In the Catholic wedding ceremony, couples may swear by the Virgin Mary and the laws of the Catholic Church that they will pledge themselves to one another.

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  • He also has several successful films on his resume, including The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Little Miss Sunshine, Get Smart, and Crazy Stupid Love.

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  • In 1982, Culture Club, who had signed to Virgin in the UK and Epic in the USA, released their debut album, Kissing to be Clever.

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  • The two remained under-the-radar, with Holmes making headlines only for her wholesomeness and vow to remain a virgin until marriage.

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  • In 2005, he co-wrote and starred in The 40-Year-Old Virgin.

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  • The hair waxing scene in The 40-Year-Old Virgin was done in one take, and is actually Carell getting his chest hair removed.

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  • Critics claimed it borrowed from other successful films including Office Space, Empire Records and The 40-Year-Old Virgin.

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  • Some of his more memorable films include The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Role Models, and I Love You Man.

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  • The L.A. Celebrity Homes section of the Virgin Media website showcases 11 of the most impressive celeb houses in Los Angeles, and includes information on where they are located and how much they're worth.

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  • One of Virgin America's airplanes is named Air Colbert.

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  • Rogen has appeared in several of Apatow's films, including a supporting part in The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), starring Steve Carell, and the lead role in the 2007 film Knocked Up, co-starring Katherine Heigl.

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  • You probably remember Shelley Malil from his role as Haziz in the Steve Carell flick 40-Year Old Virgin, but he has also had roles in the television shows Scrubs, NYPD Blue and Without a Trace.

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  • Caribbean-based embarkation ports for southern cruises include San Juan, Puerto Rico and St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.

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  • Frequent ports of call include the Bahamas, Antigua, the Virgin Islands, Aruba, and Curacao.

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  • This 14 day cruise can take you through a number of ports including the British Virgin Islands, St. Maarten, St. Barts, Antigua, St Lucia and many others.

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  • Places to begin your search for the ideal adult cruises include Rio Grande Travel and Virgin Holiday Cruises, if you sailing from the United Kingdom.

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  • The main points in beginning the culture of Narcissi are to get sound and healthy bulbs as early as possible after June, and to plant or pot them at once in good fibrous, sandy, or gravelly loam, or in any virgin soil.

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  • Your walls may not be virgin territory either.

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  • Western European Judeo-Christian traditions associate the Virgin Mary with the new moon, symbolizing peace and purity.

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  • Another favorite charm is a depiction of the Virgin Mary and the many forms used to commemorate various stages of her life or ways in which she is said to have appeared.

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  • The rose is a Christian symbol for the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus.

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  • The Garrison Glen Plaid Sport Coat is made in a blend of virgin wool, linen and silk.

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  • This is a good way to use fabrics that would otherwise be discarded to landfill and also reduces the amount of virgin materials that are required.

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  • Balsamic Vinegar and Extra Virgin Olive Oil - For your cooking needs, these products are totally organic.

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  • The vinegar comes from Modena, Italy and the extra virgin olive oil comes from Tunisia.

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  • So you always have some on hand the vinegar comes in 8.5 ounce or 17 ounce sizes and the extra virgin olive oil comes in 17 ounce and 25 ounce sizes.

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  • Virgin Mobile cell phones can be found in a number of countries around the world.

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  • The cellular phones offered through Virgin Mobile may not be the most high-tech or sport the flashiest looking designs, but they were never meant to be.

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  • An innovator in the industry, Virgin Mobile is the world's first MVNO, or mobile virtual network operator.

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  • Virgin Mobile is also the first company to offer prepaid cellular services only, opting out of the usual prepaid monthly game (with the exception of UK, Australia, and South Africa).

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  • In the United States, Virgin Mobile operates off of the Sprint CDMA network.

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  • Virgin Mobile USA opened up shop in the summer of 2002.

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  • While the initial business was prepaid only, it is now possible to use Virgin Mobile cell phones with a more conventional monthly plan.

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  • Virgin Mobile USA offers several handsets.

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  • Virgin Mobile Canada started out in March 2005 as a joint venture between Virgin Mobile and Bell Canada wherein the latter retained 49% ownership.

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  • Virgin Mobile Canada offers a good variety of regular phones and smartphones.

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  • Featuring a great capacitive touchscreen display and full access to a huge range of different games via the App Store, the iPhone is easily one of the more popular Virgin Mobile cell phones.

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  • More specifically, the candybar version of the RAZR (the SLVR L2, L6, and L7) has plenty of competition coming in from many fronts, including the UTStarcom-made Slice from Virgin Mobile.

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  • Many MVNOs (mobile virtual network operators), like PC Mobile in Canada and Virgin Mobile in the USA, stick to being prepaid-only.

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  • These include STI Prepaid, Virgin Mobile and PC Mobile.

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  • The Virgin Mobile Slider Sonic is rich in features in a nice, small package.

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  • This prepaid slider cell phone is a great addition to Virgin Mobile's family.

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  • The screen is your basic 65,000 color screen and though you can assign pictures to contacts in your phone, they are Virgin Mobile provided and they are cartoons.

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  • Kyocera is a popular phone for the Virgin Mobile network, which seems to be a very popular service.

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  • With Virgin Mobile, the basic rate is 20 cents a minute.

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  • Offering both prepaid plans and monthly plans, Virgin Mobile has a healthy assortment of mobile phones from which to choose, including a couple of BlackBerry devices.

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  • Instead, it is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), not unlike Boost Mobile or Virgin Mobile.

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  • This is above and beyond sub-brands like Fido, Koodo, and Virgin Mobile, as well as smaller MVNOs like those sold by the Real Canadian Superstore and 7-Eleven.

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  • She also has performed as a dancer in the Austin Powers films, as well as Showgirls and American Virgin.

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  • The practice of sacrificing a virgin for a man's burial is controversial, though not uncommon in Chinese culture.

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  • In the Chinese underworld, families are willing large sums of money to procure a virgin for a son's burial.

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  • Moreover, virgin hair is the most coveted for wigs and hair pieces.

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  • The term "virgin" implies that the hair has never been color treated or permanently styled.

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  • Virgin hair can withstand the elements much longer than processed hair which is why it is the most desirable for wigs.

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  • Although this type of hair can look very natural, especially on users who process their own hair, these extensions will not last as long as virgin hair extensions.

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  • However, it is important for users to understand that the term Remy does not imply virgin hair.

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  • However, Indian hair is not the ultimate luxury even if it is virgin quality.

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  • However, if applied to virgin hair, it should generally wash out after a few months, even so, it's worth noting that your hair will never return back to its original shade.

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  • Kmart is a large retail company that operates more than 3,400 stores in all regions of the United States, as well as Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands.

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  • Allied currently has offices in 49 states and in the Virgin Islands.

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  • Countless portraits of the Virgin Mary Magdalene depict her as being heavy with child.

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  • The Anne Cole Swimwear studio, founded in 1978, is based at Mongoose Junction, on St. John, in the US Virgin Islands.

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  • While many women are familiar with waxing as a hair removal technique, a lot of men have no knowledge of it outside of that hilarious (if not painful) scene in the film The 40 Year-Old Virgin with Steve Carrell.

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  • As you might expect, SI offers us plenty of tropical backdrops as always, including Maui, Turkes & Caicos and the US Virgin Islands.

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  • Made from the meat of organic coconuts, the extra virgin coconut oil may just confer a variety of health benefits to those who use it as a supplement on a regular basis.

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  • A number of health benefits are now attributed to coconut oil - especially organic, extra virgin coconut oil like the coconut oil from Garden of Life.

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  • The Like a Virgin - Her hair was still dark and super curly.

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  • Madonna also wore the iconic "Boy Toy" briefly during the Borderline video, but it was more prominent in her Like a Virgin look.

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  • It includes Greek style yogurt, cucumber, salt, garlic cloves, red wine vinegar, extra virgin olive oil, fresh mint leaves, and ground pepper.

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  • Votive candles are also often placed in front of statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Jesus in churches and on home alters.

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  • A "Bloody" Virgin Mary, Rudolph With Rabies, Decapitated Caroler and a burned tree were in attendance, as well as a hapless husband electrocuted while putting up lights.

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  • I am a 22 year old virgin whose mother told her not to have any boyfriends in both school and college; not only that, no guys have even asked me out.

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  • Should I tell guys I am a virgin, that I have not dated, had a boyfriend, or even kissed anybody?

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  • It is not necessary to tell any guy that you are a virgin or have never kissed before.

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  • As for being a virgin, think of this as a blessing.

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  • Once you have fallen in love with that special guy and the two of you are talking about having sex, that is the time you can share you are a virgin.

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  • Then he said that before he had to leave he wanted me to no longer be a virgin and that this would be a very special moment.

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  • I am a virgin and I have always had a lot of self-discipline as it relates to sexuality.

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  • He is not a virgin and has had three serious relationships in his past.

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  • He said that although he's never had a relationship with a virgin, he is quite alright with me being one and that he would never pressure me into doing anything I didn't want to do.

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  • I'm not sure, but I don't believe it is because you are a virgin.

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  • This aura is often associated with the Virgin Mary, and can even be thought of as the cosmic egg.

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  • As the sixth sign of the zodiac, Virgo is represented by the virgin.

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  • Virgo is the sign of the virgin, and this is often misconstrued to mean these people are inexperienced.

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  • In this respect, Virgos are pure like a virgin.

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  • It is the only sign of the zodiac that is represented by a female and the word itself means virgin in Latin.

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  • The word Virgo is Latin for the word Virgin.

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  • It the only astrological sign that is represented by a female, the Virgin.

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  • Her exotic and often cruel tastes extended to other areas of her life as well, but it was her murders of many virgin girls that brought her notoriety throughout Europe.

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  • Home Depot has an extensive Web site, as well as retail stores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, 10 Canadian provinces, Mexico, and China.

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  • Ricky sets his sights on Grace Bowman (Megan Park) the devout Christian cheerleader who plans to remain a virgin until her wedding night.

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  • Also, unlike the rest of the student body at Degrassi, Fiona is still a virgin, a secret she's not sure if she wants to share or change.

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  • These themes include Celtic knots and bands, shamrocks and crosses, as well as the occasional image of the Virgin Mary or Jesus.

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  • A central figure of Jesus is framed at the top by a scene of the Ascension, the Virgin Mary and the apostles.

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  • The Virgin Mary can often be seen along with Jesus in certain tattoo designs.

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  • Virgo is represented by the virgin woman.

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  • A small scene of people where a representation of the Virgo virgin is helping others up off of the floor might also be good.

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  • The do-it-all company, Virgin, has expanded into the airline business.

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  • Certain types of fats, such as those found in extra virgin olive oil, avocados, and certain fish, like salmon, are actually considered quite healthy.

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  • Despite her sexy appearance in lingerie and other skimpy attire, Adriana is a strict Catholic and a virgin.

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  • I'll also be launching a quiz later in the summer that helps women find their personal style, using categories from the Virgin to the Vixen with brand recommendations for each.

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  • Body Body offers the Pretty Baby sheer micro g-string panty in purple rain, midnight black and virgin white.

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  • She famously claimed to have remained a virgin during their relationship, but he denied it, and she eventually admitted to sleeping with him.

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  • In September 2005 the band played alongside Hard-Fi and The Dead 60s st a London gig to launch Virgin Radio Xtreme, a London-based alternative music radio station, aiming to play brand new rock music without any restrictions.

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  • She signed to Virgin Records, and in 1988, she released Forever Your Girl.

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  • Just before the release of Spellbound, one of Abdul's back-up singers, Yvette Marine, sued Virgin Records.

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  • Virgin disputed the case and a jury dismissed the claim.

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  • The suit is officially called Arista versus Limewire, but other labels, like Sony BMG and Virgin are named as plaintiffs in the case.

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  • Dare to Be Stupid offers listeners "Like a Surgeon", a parody of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" and "Yoda", sung to the tune of "Lola" by Kinks.

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  • She then split ways with her label and signed a multi-million dollar deal with Virgin - one of the largest deals of the time.

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  • In the 2000s, she left Virgin and signed with Island Def Jam, a label co-run by her partner Jermaine Dupree.

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  • In the end, Virgin Records was willing to give them they control they wanted, and so the band signed to that label.

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  • In 1997, Daft Punk released Homework through Virgin.

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  • For red choices, whip up strawberry daiquiris with rum or vodka for the adults who want to enjoy spirits, and a virgin version or cherry Kool-Aid for the kids and non-drinking grown-ups.

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  • Virgin has appeared on many high-profile television shows, including The Dr. Phil Show, the original Extreme Makeover, and The Bonnie Hunt Show.

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  • Top executives such as Virgin Group Ltd. Chairman Richard Branson and Google Inc. Chairman Eric Schmidt are tweeting in a way that increases the perception of authenticity for their companies.

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  • An example of the HTML needed to launch something like Windows Media is Absolute Radio (formerly Virgin Radio) which uses active server pages (ASX) to launch the variable-bit-rate stream.

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  • Betsy screamed, It's like if The Lord Jesus was standing here, writing a mother's day card to the Virgin Mary, you'd be sitting around on your asses discussing if it was really the month of May!

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