United States or Bulgaria ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Great were the surprise and excitement in Guillestre when it became known that the principal sergeant of gendarmerie the very embodiment of law and order in the place had gone over and joined the "Momiers" with his wife and family. M. Laugier was quite a model gendarme.
The curé, finding that the "Momiers" did not cease to exist, next adopted the expedient of preaching them down. On the occasion of the Fête Napoleon, 1862, when the Rev. Mr.
The "Momiers," or mummers the modern nickname of the Vaudois were denounced by the curé of the place, and the people were cautioned, as they valued their souls' safety, against giving any countenance to their proceedings.
It is the action of authority, or of strong social judgments backed by authority, against a set of opinions, or the expression of them in word or act usually innovating opinions, but not by any means necessarily such. The disciples of M. Monod, the "Momiers" of Geneva, were persecuted by the Liberals of Geneva, not because they broke away from the creed of Calvin, but because they adhered to it.
'Momiers' or 'Mummers, a name in itself of far greater offence, has obtained in Switzerland something of the same allowance. Exactly in the same way 'Capuchin' was at first a jesting nickname, given by the gamins in the streets to that reformed branch of the Franciscans which afterwards accepted it as their proper designation.
Word Of The Day