Beda, for he was tearful, penitent, given to prayer, diligent, ascetic, temperate ; he never used to eat except on Sunday and Thursday ; he made a slave of himself to these virtues ; and, moreover, he was wise and learned in the clear understanding of... The Historians of Scotland - Página clxi1874Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Saint Adamnan - 1857 - 608 páginas
...course, are loud in his praises. In the Vision he is styled the ' noble sage of the western world'", and his Life ascribes to him the combined virtues...form, and with knotty, diabolical questions". The phik September 23. — Cave erroneously has 23 Octob. ectiaib icrptaip Domain. See note ', p. 370.... | |
| Ossory archaeological society - 1879 - 548 páginas
...Masters sum up his character thus : " Adamnan was a good man, according to the testimony of Bede ; for he was tearful, penitent, given to prayer, diligent,...clear understanding of the Holy Scriptures of God." St. Adamnan is honoured in Baphoe and many other churches in Ireland. In Scotland he is patron of Furvie... | |
| Edward Alexander Cooke - 1888 - 192 páginas
...Masters sum up the .evidence thus: "Adamnan was a good man, according to the testimony of St. Bede, for he was tearful, penitent, given to prayer, diligent,...clear understanding of the Holy Scriptures of God." Among his many virtues, diligence in his calling seems to have been one. The energy of his character... | |
| Alan Orr Anderson - 1922 - 774 páginas
...fasting, temperate ; inasmuch as he never ate but on Sundays and Thursdays only. He made himself a slave to these virtues. And moreover he was wise and learned in the exposition of the divine holy scriptures." A note in Lebar Brecc (1880 Oengus, cxiii) says that Adamnan... | |
| Alan Orr Anderson - 1922 - 772 páginas
...fasting, temperate ; inasmuch as he never ate but on Sundays and Thursdays only. He made himself a slave to these virtues. And moreover he was wise and learned in the exposition of the divine holy scriptures." A note in Lebar Brecc (1880 Oengus, cxiii) says that Adamnan... | |
| 1934 - 128 páginas
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| Edward Aloysius Pace - 1936 - 876 páginas
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| Charles George Herbermann - 1907 - 874 páginas
...Ireland. The "Four Masters" tells us that he was "tearful, penitent, fond of prayer, diligent and ascetic, and learned in the clear understanding of the Holy Scriptures of God." His feast is celebrated 23 September. WH GRATTAN FLOOD. Adams, JAMES, professor of humanities at St.... | |
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