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  • In "Fra Angelico and the Masters of Light," 25 of the famed Italian Dominican friar's works have come to France for the first time.

    Don't Miss: Dec. 24-30 2011

  • "Sometimes I think it was easier back then," said Beaumont, 50, laughing at that memory as he rumbled along a dirt road in a pickup truck and the tattered brown friar's habit he wears over bluejeans.

    Brother-in-arms Nick Miroff 2010

  • Although Pacioli was fascinated with such processes of mathematical and geometrical embodiment as stereometry and stereotomy,183 the friar's interest in the divine proportion (or "golden mean") did not center on its instrumentalization. 184 An instructor of theology, Pacioli was less concerned with translating the divine into the worldly than with transporting human intellect — by way of the senses — to contemplate mysteries beyond human comprehension.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • As a child, mum used to add friar's balsum (excuse spelling) to steaming waterbowl with a draped over towel ... but, honestly, White Flower Oil is fantastic.

    Sinus Solutions 2008

  • Others say it is because of the cappuccio or hood of the friar's robes.

    Cappuchino Mousse Trifle Jessica 2009

  • Others say it is because of the cappuccio or hood of the friar's robes.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Mary 2009

  • The book conveys Bishop Rossi's conclusions about the stigmata, of which there had only been partial information, and so provides new information, especially about the form of the wound in the side and a rumored sixth wound on the friar's back.

    Zenit: The Secret Story of Padre Pio's Stigmata papabear 2008

  • Father Castelli, the book's editor, noted that the theme of the ingratitude of men and especially those favored by God is not something new in the Capuchin friar's private revelations.

    Zenit: The Secret Story of Padre Pio's Stigmata papabear 2008

  • The book conveys Bishop Rossi's conclusions about the stigmata, of which there had only been partial information, and so provides new information, especially about the form of the wound in the side and a rumored sixth wound on the friar's back.

    Archive 2008-09-21 papabear 2008

  • Father Castelli, the book's editor, noted that the theme of the ingratitude of men and especially those favored by God is not something new in the Capuchin friar's private revelations.

    Archive 2008-09-21 papabear 2008

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