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The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March

Butler, Alban, 1711-1773· 4 chapters· 433,709 words

all other things in the state of their natural maturity and perfection. The Jews retained this commencement of the year, as a date for contracts and other civil purposes; as also for their sabbatical year and jubilee. But God commanded them to begin their ecclesiastical year,...

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2. did. In 312 the persecution being abated, he returned to his monastery,

and immured himself in his cell. Some time after he built another monastery, called Pispir, near the Nile; but he chose, for the most part, to shut himself up in a remote cell u...

1. iii. 2, being then covered with trees, plants, fruits, seeds, and

all other things in the state of their natural maturity and perfection. The Jews retained this commencement of the year, as a date for contracts and other civil purposes; as als...

3. c. 13,) that the greater part of the fathers teach the world to be a

sphere, as St. Basil, the two SS. Gregories, of Nazianzum and of Nyssa, St. Athanasins, &c. And several among them mention Antipodes, as St. Hilary, (in Ps. 2, n. 32,) Origen, (...

4. part 2, c. 24, n. 53, t. 5, p. 245, and Macchiarelli, the monk of

Camaldoli. Soon after Mount Cassino was restored, pope Zachary visited that monastery and devoutly venerated the relics of St. Benedict and St. Scholastica in 746, as he testifi...