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Ann Baynard

Ann Baynard (sometimes spelled Anne) (Born 1672 Preston, Lancashire, England - June 12, 1697, Barnes, Surrey) was a British natural philosopher and model of piety.

Anorexia

Anorexia mirabilis, People who would starve themselves, sometimes to the death, for the sake of piety.

Anthony Terill

After his noviceship, he was successively penitentiary at Loreto, professor of philosophy at Florence, professor of philosophy and scholastic theology at Parma, director of theological studies and professor of theology and mathematics at the English College, Liège, and for three years rector of the same college where he died with a reputation for "extraordinary piety, talent, learning, and prudence".

Canasatego

After his death, a fictional version of Canasatego appeared in the 1755 novel Lydia: or Filial Piety, by English writer John Shebbeare.

Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association

CPCA, which was founded eight years later, thus does not recognize the proclamation of the dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Pope Pius XII in 1950, canonizations from 1949 onward (e.g. the canonization of Pope Pius X), Vatican declarations on even well-established devotional piety (e.g. on the Sacred Heart of Jesus or on Mary as Queen), and the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965).

Daridra Narayana

Daridra Narayana or Daridranarayana or Daridra Narayan is an axiom enunciated by Swami Vivekananda espousing that the service of the poor is equivalent in importance and piety to the service of God.

David ben Zakkai

This dispute lasted for two years, until Nissim Naharwani, highly respected for his piety, intervened and reconciled the adversaries, peace being concluded at Sarsar (half a day's journey south of Baghdad).

Definitions of Puritanism

Hall gives also the example of The Practice of Piety, by Lewis Bayly, as representative, and influential on Pietism.

Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?

Frightened into piety by Father Maxi's fire-and-brimstone sermon, Stan, Cartman, and Kenny begin to attend Sunday school classes with a nun named Sister Anne, who teaches them about Communion and confession.

Filial piety

Filial piety is considered a key virtue in Chinese culture, and it is the main concern of a large number of stories.

Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Given her known piety and devotion to the Blessed Sacrament and her caring personality, she was quickly accepted and given the name Sister Mary Catherine of St. Rose of Viterbo.

Ghulam Muhammad Malik

Malik was known for his "orthodox religious piety" and was a supporter of the controversial religious order Tablighi Jamaat, a 'non-political' Islamic party which "essentially enjoins goodness in society".

Hasideans

The piety attributed to Ḥasidim in the Talmudic sources is not in any way abnormal or suggestive of sect (Lehmann, in R. E. J. xxx. 182 et seq.).

Hugh of Châteauneuf

Born at Châteauneuf-sur-Isère, France, Hugh showed piety and theological facility from a young age.

Ihr Häuser des Himmels, ihr scheinenden Lichter, BWV 193a

It was the custom for congratulatory works such as this to feature allegorical characters; in this case they are: Providentia (Providence), Fama (Fame), Salus (Well-being) and Pietas (Piety).

Jacome Gonsalves

Jaccome Gonsalves was the eldest son of Thomas Gonsalves and Mariana de Abreu, living in the parish of Our Lady of Piety (Piedade), Divar, Goa.

Liam Chambers

Knowledge and Piety: Michael Moore’s Career at the University of Paris and Collège de France, 1701-20 in Eighteenth-Century Ireland, vol.

Lutheran Marian theology

It was developed out of the deep Christian Marian devotion on which he was reared, and it was subsequently clarified as part of his mature Christocentric theology and piety.

Mansar, Pakistan

The Shrines of the Sufi saint "Sin Kalo Baba"(سائیں کلو بابا) revered for his piety and his disciple "Sayyad Anwar Shah"(سید انور شاہ) are also present in Mansar.

Maria Renata Saenger von Mossau

Renata was inducted in the convent of Unter-Zell in Bavaria in 1699, were she made herself known for her great piety and was appointed Sub Prioress in 1740.

Marie de Miramion

Marie de Miramion (also known as Marie Bonneau, or Marie Bonneau de Rubella Beauharnais de Miramion), 1629-1696, was a seventeenth century French woman known for her piety and the organizations she founded.

Matt Talbot

The Venerable Matt Talbot (2 May 1856 – 7 June 1925) was an Irish ascetic revered by many Catholics for his piety, charity and mortification of the flesh.

Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine

These melodramatic tableaux include a nun in "extremely sorrowful prayer" experiencing "saintly transports of virginal purity"; a mother feeling both pain and joy while leaning over a child's crib; a bare-shouldered coquette looking at once offended, haughty and mocking; and three scenes from Lady Macbeth expressing the "aggressive and wicked passions of hatred, of jealousy, of cruel instincts," modulated to varying degrees of contrary feelings of filial piety.

Morteza Ansari

According to Roy Mottahedeh, Ansari was celebrated for his piety and generosity and "more than that of any mullah leader of the past two centuries, his leadership celebrated his learning." Through the expansion of rational devices in Usul al-fiqh, Ansari implicitly admitted the uncertainty of much of the sacred law.

Ottoman general election, 1912

Although the two main parties competing in the election, the Committee of Union and Progress and the Liberal Entente, were largely secular in their political outlook, issues such as the Islamic religious piety of their candidates became sensationalized election topics.

Philip Chetwinde

Like virtually all the publishers of his time and place, Chetwinde produced an abundant supply of religious works; Bishop Bayly's The Practice of Piety, which Chetwinde issued in multiple editions, is only one example.

Prometheus Bound

That is, how could the playwright who demonstrated such piety toward Zeus in (for example) The Suppliants and Agamemnon be the same playwright who, in Prometheus Bound, inveighs against Zeus for being a violent tyrant?

Roman Catholic devotions to Jesus Christ

The devotion to the Precious Blood was a special phenomenon of Flemish piety in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, that gave rise to the iconic image of Grace as the "Fountain of Life," filled with blood, pouring from the wounded "Lamb of God" or the "Holy Wounds" of Christ.

Rowland Heylyn

Other works he saw into print were the Welsh-Latin dictionary of John Davies, and the Practice of Piety of Lewis Bayly in the translation by Rowland Vaughan.

Saba Mahmood

She is the author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (2005) in which she theorizes the concept of habitus from a genealogy that begins with Aristotle and extends into the Islamic tradition.

Sampson Estwick

The ‘reverend and truly venerable Mr. Estwick’ was regretted by the author of the ‘Remarks’ as a ‘good man and worthy clergyman,’ while the ‘London Evening Post’ of 20 February bears witness to his ‘exemplary piety and orthodox principles.’ Estwick was said by Hawkins to have been an unsuccessful candidate for the Gresham professorship of music.

Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes

Some visitors may dislike the commercialism of parts of Lourdes, with neon-emblazoned gift shops overflowing with what Malcolm Muggeridge, a supporter of the shrine, called "tawdry relics, the bric-a-brac of piety".

Seelitz, Perry County, Missouri

Although only one of the colonists is recorded as coming from the small parish of Seelitz, which is near Niederfrohna in the Mulde valley, Bürger may have chosen it out of filial piety and the memory of his own first pastorate, rather than Lunzenau, from which he and most of his people had actually come.

Shepherd of Salisbury Plain

Shepherd of Salisbury Plain is the name of the hero, a shepherd of the name of Saunders, in a tract written by Hannah More, characterised by homely wisdom and simple piety.

Simon Baskerville

After receiving a suitable preliminary education, he was sent to Oxford, and matriculated on 10 March 1591 as a member of Exeter College, where he was placed under the care of William Helm, a man famous for his piety and learning.

Vergilius of Salzburg

Around 745 he left Ireland, intending to visit the Holy land, but, like many of his countrymen, who seemed to have adopted this practice as a work of piety, he settled down in France, where he was received with great favour by Pippin the Younger then Mayor of the Palace under Childeric III of Franconia.

Versum de Mediolano civitate

The piety of the Milanese, their wealth, and their close connection with the Lombard kings are also cited in support of its pre-eminence among the cities of northern Italy.

Viveiro

The city is also home to processions such as the Encounter that show the Calvary of Christ with religious images, the Unnailed and St. Funeral that show the descent of the Cross to continue with the procession of St. Funeral, the Last Supper with the pasos of the supper, Horto, Ecce Homo, the Nazarene and the Virgin of the Dolores- Sufferings, the Passion, the Seven Words, the Piety and the Virgin on foot of the Cross, a silent procession.

Xiaojing

Classic of Filial Piety, or Xiao Jing, Confucian classic treatise giving advice on filial piety

Zhang Jiuling

Emperor Xuanzong issued an edict praising him for his filial piety, and made him the commandant at Hong Prefecture (洪州, roughly modern Nanchang, Jiangxi).

Zhu Qinming

However, in 706, he would have a brief downfall -- as he was indicted by the censor Xiao Zhizhong of having hidden a parent's death to avoid serving a mourning period, a severe breach of the Confucian requirements for filial piety -- and was demoted to be the prefect of Shen Prefecture (申州, roughly modern Xinyang, Henan).


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