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...The Black Monks band will perform at this space in October....
...His 16cm by 21cm “Abraham and the Angels” (1646) is estimated between $20m and $30m and has a guaranteed price offered by the auction house (generally set just below the low estimate)....
...And almost comic is the interplay between Bartolome Murillo’s sugar-sweet “Virgin of the Rosary”, a floaty Madonna with naked infant Christ surrounded by cherubs, and Abraham van den Tempel’s portrayal of...
...Morgan can’t stop chatting: he could wring a conversation from a Benedictine monk....
...In 1994, he began a five-year retreat in a Buddhist monastery in California, attaining the level of monk with the name “Jikan” (“silent one”)....
...Used as a herbal remedy to balance hormones during the menopause, it was also taken by nuns and monks to “suppress their urges”....
...The canopy or chupah under which Jewish couples still stand at their wedding symbolises Abraham’s tent, which was open on all sides to greet guests of every nation....
...After hiking to isolated monasteries and spending time with the country’s many monks, he returned with new insights....
...Tony Bennett, a 26-year-old son of a black father and a Latina mother, is a short man with a prizefighter’s body and a monk’s demeanour....
...After inspecting the pictures, local monks decided that the castaways must be faithful believers and rescued them....
...My favourite is the story of Maria Hsia, a longtime supporter of Al Gore who was sent down for using Buddhist monks and nuns to funnel $55,000 of donations to Democratic candidates (Mr Gore had made an appearance...
...For decades it was a seminary for young monks of the Syrian Orthodox Church, one of the many Christian churches that has persisted and survived in the Levant for centuries....
...In Muslim Spain, relations between the three religions of Abraham were uniquely harmonious in medieval Europe....
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