I immediately realized that what I was feeling, a mixture of shock and disbelief, must have been what people felt when they found out about my own decision to close my Gang Gomez House of Fashion in 1990 after almost 20 successful years, to become a
Benedictine monk. I promised myself that on my next trip to Rome, I would ask permission to visit Giovanni.
Joseph is a
Benedictine monk of the Camaldolese Congregation.
But only close confidantes would have known the inner turmoil troubling the
Benedictine monk, who had suffered from depression for the last 12 years.
Paul Bellot had hoped to marry Hulot's sister, but she chose instead to become a Carmelite nun a decision that led him to abandon his budding career as an architect in Paris and to join the
Benedictine monks of Solesmes in their exile on the Isle of Wight.(5) As a newly arrived novice, he was 'requistioned' by the monk-architect Dom Jules Mellet(6) for a few days in the autumn of 1902, to copy plans of the temporary timber-and-corrugated-iron church the latter had designed for the monastic community, and he probably imagined any future demands on his skills as an architect would be no less modest after he had taken his monastic vows in 1904.
In 1856,
Benedictine monks traveled into what was then the Minnesota territory; in 1857 they received the charter for the school now called St.
At the beginning of the eighth century, a learned
Benedictine monk, the Venerable Bede, described the growth of English Christianity in the Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731).
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Benedictine monk, Kollar (history, Saint Vincent College, Pennsylvania) explores the hostility towards the establishment of convent life, both Anglican and Roman Catholic, in 19th-century England.
The book details episodes in his life including as a bouncer at the famous Fiesta nightclub in Stockton, as a
Benedictine monk, in a job at Head Wrightson - where he lost an arm - and about his embarking on a career in advertising.
St Vitalis of Assisi, a
Benedictine monk who died in 1370, was reputed to have repented after living a life of debauchery.
The View from a Monastery: The Vowed Life and its Cast of Many Characters is the spiritual memoir of Brother Benet Tvedten, who has been a
Benedictine monk for almost fifty years.
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Benedictine monk working among Indians in the Okanagan Valley was recommending him for a job as a teacher at an Indian Day School near Vernon.
Father Piers Grant-Ferris, 72, a
Benedictine monk at the Ampleforth monastic community in North Yorkshire, was jailed for two years at Leeds Crown Court after earlier admitting the offences.