seventeenth-century

As its name and membership suggest, the Company was firmly Catholic—although as Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln point out, it was regarded with wariness by Catholic bishops and orders such as the Jesuits, and there are suggestions that something rather more unorthodox lay behind its façade.67In fact the Priory of Sion has claimed the Company of the Holy Sacrament as a front for its seventeenth-century agenda—which is particularly interesting as the Company has also been called the seventeenth-century equivalent of Opus Dei.68

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

As its name and membership suggest, the Company was firmly Catholic—although as Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln point out, it was regarded with wariness by Catholic bishops and orders such as the Jesuits, and there are suggestions that something rather more unorthodox lay behind its façade.67In fact the Priory of Sion has claimed the Company of the Holy Sacrament as a front for its seventeenth-century agenda—which is particularly interesting as the Company has also been called the seventeenth-century equivalent of Opus Dei.68

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

As its name and membership suggest, the Company was firmly Catholic—although as Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln point out, it was regarded with wariness by Catholic bishops and orders such as the Jesuits, and there are suggestions that something rather more unorthodox lay behind its façade.67In fact the Priory of Sion has claimed the Company of the Holy Sacrament as a front for its seventeenth-century agenda—which is particularly interesting as the Company has also been called the seventeenth-century equivalent of Opus Dei.68

The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

I was awoke by three cheers in honor of King Tamany**a seventeenth-century chief in

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Not a bad little business, or perhaps one should say “not a bad businessje” in honor of the seventeenth-century Dutch spoken by the bakers of those minicakes.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

This seventeenth-century concept of the log was taken from the late-sixteenth-century idea of a “device for ascertaining the speed of a ship, a float attached to a line.”

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

This seventeenth-century concept of the log was taken from the late-sixteenth-century idea of a “device for ascertaining the speed of a ship, a float attached to a line.”

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

As the seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal said, reflecting on the religious wars in his era, “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

Not a bad little business, or perhaps one should say “not a bad businessje” in honor of the seventeenth-century Dutch spoken by the bakers of those minicakes.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

The seventeenth-century diarist John Evelyn thought them "horrid and fearful."

Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011