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And were there not many neophytes at that time?" I added. "Senor, San Luis Rey was the largest mission in California. So much larger than this place, although Pala had many more Indians in those days, before the padres were driven away, that it seemed to me like a city.
If not, he seeth the place of punishment at hand. Vandal guides Emperor and Pope The Bible in mosaic The Creation of the world Cain and Abel Noah The story of Joseph The golden horses A horseless city A fiction gross and palpable A populous church The French pilgrims Rain in Venice S. Mark's Day The procession New Testament mosaics S. Isidoro's chapel The chapel of the Males A coign of vantage The Pala d'oro Sansovino S. Mark's treasures The Baptistery The good Andrea Dandolo The vision of Bishop Magnus The parasites.
She got up, and stood staring at them both. Had she heard aright? Then she answered very gravely: "Yes; I think he ought." "Good; we'll get HIM to lead up the Cimone della Pala!" When the boy had said good-bye, and she had watched him out into the street, Anna stood for a moment in the streak of sunlight that came in through the open door, her hands pressed to cheeks which were flaming.
They were some time selecting the tree, many being too easy for him, and many too hard for her; but one was found at last, an oak of great age, and frequented by rooks. Then, insisting that she must be roped to him, he departed to the house for some blind-cord. The climb began at four o'clock named by him the ascent of the Cimone della Pala.
He also observes that the Âcârya Ânanda-garbha did much to spread them in Magadha. It is not until a late period of the Pâla dynasty that he mentions the Kâlacakra which is the most extravagant form of Buddhist Tantrism. This accords with other statements to the effect that the Kâlacakra tantra was introduced in 965 A.D. from Śambhala, a mysterious country in Central Asia.
They knew that within the Duomo, before the great altar where slept their patron-saint, ablaze now with lights and the marvel of the Pala d'Oro which was not for the sight of the eyes save on days of a festa like this, the child of the Cornaro was waiting to be made the Daughter of Venice.
At Pala, that romantic chapel, where once the visiting priest from San Luis Rey found a congregation of several hundreds awaiting his ministrations, the land was recently purchased from white men, by the United States Indian Commission, as a new home for the evicted Palatingwa Indians of Warner's Ranch.
The silver pala is preserved just within the west door upon the south wall, behind glass in tolerably large sheets, so that it can be easily studied. The present parroco replaced the old heavy wooden framing by one of lighter construction. It is thought to have been a triptych originally. Each of the wings has ten figures in two rows of five, one above the other twenty in all.
She had not seen them since that season at San Martino di Castrozza twelve years ago, which had ended in her marrying him. "Nostalgia!" "I don't know what that means I am homesick. Can we go?" "If you like why not? But no leading up the Cimone della Pala for ME!" She knew what he meant by that. No romance. How splendidly he had led that day! She had almost worshipped him. What blindness!
With a desire to promote the good feeling aimed at in recent dealings with the evicted Indians of Warner's Ranch, now located at Pala, the bishop of the diocese sent them a priest.
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