Padri

Likewise, an anonymous elderly Desert Father has handed down to us this saying that echoes Psalm 131130: "I have never overstepped my rank to walk higher, nor have I ever been troubled in the case of humiliation, for I concentrated my every thought on this: praying the Lord to strip me of the old man" I Padri del Deserto.

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They had survived the coming of Islam in the sixteenth century, the Padri War, Dutch colonialism, Suharto's New Order, the Negari Restoration and, post-Spin, the New Reformasi and their thuggish national police.

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Pirano, (where he was born of a good family in 1692) to Capo d 'Istria, to study at the college of the "Padri delle Scuole."

Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians Walter Rowlands

Be gentle with them, Padri -- but I don't think you'll do much. '

Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

Truly excellent life helped out by the visits of the Padri, just fresh from burying somebody down below there. '

Under the Deodars Rudyard Kipling 1900

Boats piled with coal-black grapes block the landing-place, for the Padri are gathering their vintage from the Lido, and their presses run with new wine.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

Boats piled with coal-black grapes block the landing-place, for the Padri are gathering their vintage from the Lido, and their presses run with new wine.

New Italian sketches John Addington Symonds 1866

Boats piled with coal-black grapes block the landing-place, for the Padri are gathering their vintage from the Lido, and their presses run with new wine.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

Padri-Sahibs, which means "Father-Gentlemen," and they give them this name to show their love, as well as respect.

Far Off Favell Lee Mortimer 1840

"I have my parents, and my brother, and the Padri-Sahibs, and my books, what can I want more?"

Far Off Favell Lee Mortimer 1840