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...Shortly after noon every day, the monks of Mount St Bernard, nestled in a shallow valley in rural Leicestershire, pause their brewing and bottling and head to the abbey for midday prayer....
...“I turn into a monk. I lock myself into my apartment with a stack of things to read. Then I will come for breakfast here or go to a museum to get a bit of fresh air.”...
...There I learnt how, in the 17th century, the monks introduced turkeys to the area and taught villagers how to rear them....
...Before that, smileys had cropped up in various guises – Czech monk Bernard Hennet used them in his signature in the 1740s, while a crudely drawn face was discovered on a pot from 1700BC....
...Why Pont-Aven has an artistic heritage: painters such as Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard were drawn to the area in the 1880s-90s....
...Bernard Shapero of London’s Shapero Rare Books characterises their Tefaf offering as “just a little amuse-bouche of what we do”....
...Music is central to Theaster, and his band The Black Monks is an important part of his life and practice, “expounding the word of art alongside the word of god”....
...His take on British studio pottery – pioneered by Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada a century ago in St Ives – has gained him 350,000 followers on Instagram (@floriangadsby)....
...Francisco Ribalta’s “Christ Embracing St Bernard”: the vision of a saint who, kneeling before a crucifix, felt Christ descend and embrace him, is similarly a gesture of hands, human and divine — ecstatic...
...When Bernard Arnault “acquired” Slimane in March to run the creative direction of Celine, he had a very clear plan in mind....
...He died in 1556 and was largely forgotten, many works reattributed, until the early 20th century, era of Freud, when Bernard Berenson rediscovered him as “pre-eminently a psychologist . . ....
...Faith is still deeply embedded in the Irish: from Bernard Keigher, London, UK Certainly huge numbers have left the Church, but the Faith is still very deeply embedded in the Irish people....
...It is where modernism coincides with St Bernard of Clairvaux’s 12th-century strictures for monastic architecture, with their emphasis on light, simplicity of proportion and clarity of space....
...At once one thinks of the poem inserted by a ninth-century Irish monk into what is now known as the Reichenau Primer....
...Following the Solomons’ divorce she ultimately exchanged vows with lawyer Bernard Weisberg, later a judge....
...Until Then, as the new gallery is called, launches with two artists, Jonathan Monk and Rodney Graham, in a show that includes installations and sculpture....
...Every now and then Brother Bernard, who is alcoholic, goes off on a bender, leading to some good Falstaffian tavern scenes....
...And Bernard Hinault, the last Frenchman to win the Tour, was a Yorkshireman manqué: a plain speaking hard man who learnt his trade by racing lorries up the windy, wet hills of Britanny....
...The annals speak of Kells at this time as the “noue ciuitatis” of the Columban monks....
...Monks also refrain from speaking during “the great silence” between the last office of the day and the first. At the Cistercian monastery of Mount St Bernard, this is at 3.30am....
...A highlight is an expedition to the Grand St Bernard monastery, where monks bred the rescue dogs. From £895 for 7 nights, www.keadventure.com...
...He formed a strong working friendship with bassist Bernard Edwards....
...upending the global beer industry it is Belgium, home to both the world’s largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch InBev, and arguably the famous small-scale “craft” beers, the trappist ales made and distributed by monks...
...Short and bearded, Van Zweden at close range could be mistaken for a monk or an artisan. On the podium, though, he stands tall, with commanding eyes and large, fluent gestures....
...Burgundy has three such establishments: Lameloise in Chagny, Côtes St Jacques in Joigny and Le Relais de Bernard Loiseau in Saulieu....
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