Hisce nostris autem temporibus, uti omnes norunt,
crescens semper in dies matrimonialium causarum numerus, praesertim in nonnullis orbis terrarum regionibus, ob gravem defectum discretionis iudicii et/vel incapacitatem ob causas naturae psychicae adsumendi atque adimplendi obligationes matrimonii essentiales, grave constituit pro Ecclesia catholica problema circa sanctitatem ac stabilitatem vinculi matrimonialis.
A gravestone for a man called
Crescens was the first Roman gravestone found for 170 years in which country?
Molecular diagnosis of disseminated adiaspiromycosis due to Emmonsia
crescens. J Clin Microbiol.
Clodius
Crescens, | mil(es) leg(ionis) III Aug(ustae), | Clodia Vitalis, fili(a), | matri karissimae, | (et) C.
Crescens, his accuser, 'publicly bears witness against us in matters which he does not understand' and is 'thoroughly depraved and far worse than the illiterate' for assailing him without having read the teachings of Christ.
The artefact was for a man called
Crescens, a bodyguard for the governor who ran the province of Britain for the Roman Emperor.
19A gravestone for a man called
Crescens has excited archaeologists as it is the first Roman gravestone found for 170 years in which country?
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Crescens Akkermans model the new tartan at Crieff; PHILHANNAH
His intellectual opponents included the heretic Marcionites and Valentinians, and the pagan Cynic
Crescens. The last, worsted in debate, took revenge by denouncing him to the authorities as a Christian.
Lombard-Jourdan explains that the Latin term for toad, buffo, "eveille aussitot pour nous le souvenir de ces bufurdi, 'behourdis,' 'bourdis,' (espagnol et portugais boffordo), feux qu'on allumait traditionnellement en mars, lors de la fete equinoxiale." She adds that "Bufurdum devait avoir un sens voisin de
crescens, 'croissant.' L'horreur qu'il inspirait aux chretiens provoqua un calembour facile: on decomposa le mot en bufo horridus," 35.
1.7.22, vel quod adhuc
crescens et rude carmen erat, where I believe (following Hinds, "Booking" 22-23) that Ovid alludes to the chaos account in the Metamorphoses and so equates the unfinished Metamorphoses with the rude state of chaos, for further discussion of Ovid's use of rudis in the context of literary composition see Harries.
Peregrinus; Justin's report that
Crescens, responsible for Justin's martyrdom, needed to prove that he was not a Christian; Aelius Aristides; Origen's defence of Christian open-air preaching by appeal to Cynic precedents (c.Cels.