Sublime

Conceda-me, Senhor, serenidade para aceitar as coisas que não posso modificar, coragem para modificar aquelas que posso e sabedoria para reconhecer a diferença. REINHOLD NIEBUHR

We are enabled to judge of the importance of this ceremony by the exorbitant power of the magistrate who presided at it. The censor, before commencing the sacrifice, ranged the people in a certain order; the senators, the knights, and the tribes, each rank in its appropriate place. Absolute master on that day, he fixed the place of each man in the

Martyria, or witnessing

Bernard himself visited the Languedoc in 1145, suspicious that the count of Toulouse, Alfonso-Jordan, was not doing enough to check the apparent growth of heresy in his lands.

Anyone at all familiar with old folios knows that in 1425 Martin Verga founded a congregation of Bernardine-Benedictines, with their chief convent at Salamanca and a subsidiary at Alcalá.

Ambrose, on becoming bishop of Milan, melted all of the objects of gold in the temple, saying, “The church has gold not to store up but to lay out and spend on those in need, for would not the Lord himself say: why didst thou suffer so many to die of hunger?

From these precise memorials and traditions, which Athens preserved so religiously, there seem to us to be two truths equally manifest: the one is, that the city was a confederation of groups that had been established before it; and the other is, that society developed only so fast as religion enlarged its sphere. We cannot, indeed, say that religi