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Many disciples being assembled near his hermitage, he removed with them into another desert, where he built the monastery of Corbion, (at present a priory called Moutier-au-Perche, six leagues from Chartres,) about the year 575.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Undervelier and on to a town called Moutier or Munster.
The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911
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While the Carolingian Bibles depict Adam and Eve alike, implying their even share of responsibility to the Fall, as for example in the Moutier-Grandval Bible (840 – 843), later artists adopt an increasingly misogynist approach: Eve is constantly coupled with the Devil and juxtaposed with the sacred figure of Mary.
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We are speaking now, generally, of what may be seen throughout the whole of the route, from Moutier, by the Little St. Bernard, to Aosta, -- and thence again to
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 353, January 24, 1829 Various
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(It is fair to say that the definite location of these capacities in definite areas has been challenged by Marie, Moutier and others, but this denial does not deny the organic brain location of speech memories; it merely affirms that they are scattered rather than concentrated in one area.) In its widest phases memory alters with the state of the brain.
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Moyen-Moutier, in 1718 prior of the monastery of Saint Jacques de
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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After completing the course of humanities and rhetoric, he entered (1705) the monastery of Moyen-Moutier in the Vosges, belonging to the Benedictine congregation of St-Vannes and
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Abbot of the Cluniac monastery of Moutier-en-Der, d. 992, on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; one of the foremost writers of the tenth century.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Those of St-Front (Périgueux), Romain-Moutier, and Jumièges are early examples, while those at Vézelay and Cluny are conspicuous for their size.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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So my song over and the woods now left behind, I passed up a dusty piece of road into Moutier, a detestable town, all whitewashed and orderly, down under the hills.
The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911
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