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The Lady Eveline remained nearly four months with her aunt, the Abbess of the Benedictine nunnery, under whose auspices the Constable of Chester saw his suit advance and prosper as it would probably have done under that of the deceased Raymond Berenger, her brother.
It seemed as if nature herself had intended her for a Sister of Charity a Gray Sister, as Jacqueline would sometimes call her, making fun of her somewhat dull intellect, which had been benumbed, rather than stimulated, by the education she had received. The Benedictine Convent is situated in a dull street on the left bank of the Seine, all gardens and hotels that is, detached houses.
He managed to raise himself to a great height, and flew above the square; but the iron with which he moved one of his wings having been bent, he fell upon the church of the Virgin, and broke his thigh. A similar accident befell a learned English Benedictine Oliver of Malmesbury.
The statue replied, still face downward on the stone floor, that never could the late wicked Count rest in peace unless the heir to his titles and lands should take upon himself the sins Henry had committed during his life, while a younger member of the family should become a monk of the Benedictine Order, and daily intercede for the welfare of his soul.
It opened slowly, noiselessly, obviously. With exasperating precautions Mrs. Austen entered. The taste of bénédictine was still in her mouth and, savouring it, she whispered: "Are you asleep?" "No." "Will you eat anything?" "No." "Are you able to talk?" Margaret turned. She could talk, but to what end and to whom?
Be this as it may, her life for us begins when, probably at an early age, she entered the Convent of Gandersheim. Gandersheim was a Benedictine nunnery in the Harz Mountains, founded in the ninth century by Liudolf, Duke of Saxony, and important enough to entitle its Abbess to a Seat in the Imperial Diet, a right perhaps never exercised except by proxy.
'Tis supposed, continued the Benedictine, that St. Maxima has lain in this tomb four hundred years, and two hundred before her canonization 'Tis but a slow rise, brother Toby, quoth my father, in this self-same army of martyrs.
At night they found hospitality in a Benedictine house at Neuss, where Butzbach notes the peculiarity which he discusses at length but is quite unable to explain that no one could be accepted as a monk with the name of Peter. Next day the party was obliged to divide.
Milton has written of it in Lycidas: "Or whether thou to our moist views denied, Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks towards Namancos and Bayona's hold." It was always a strongly-defended place, and became a Benedictine monastery at first as an offshoot of the greater abbey of St.
More probably he was an apothecary, which would fit in with the medical profession adopted by his son in after years. Rabelais had brothers, all older than himself. Perhaps because he was the youngest, his father destined him for the Church. The time he spent while a child with the Benedictine monks at Seuille is uncertain.
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