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“By this device (a thing brought up at the first by Mnesitheus of Athens, in conservation of the honour of Orestes, who had not yet made expiation for the death of his adulterous parents, Aegisthus and Clytemnestra) much idle tippling is furthermore cut off;” Jean Froissart, Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed · insight
Augustine recounts his mother bringing food and wine to churches for memorial rites, then stopping when Ambrose forbids it to prevent drunkenness and superstition, and redirecting charity toward martyrs and the poor.
in, through which she anticipated most confidently that I should pass from sickness unto health, after the access, as it were, of a sharper fit, which physicians call "the crisis." When then my mother had once, as she was wont in Afric, brought to the Churches built in memory of the Saints, certain cakes, and bread and wine, and was forbidden by the door-keeper; so soon as she knew that the Bishop had forbidden this…
Bede recounts Gregory’s charity to the poor, his Masses and prayers for divine protection, and a story of Gregory recognizing enslaved “Angles” as promising converts.
my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof: (for from my youth compassion grew up with me, and from my mother’s womb it came forth with me.”(156)) To his works of piety and righteousness this also may be added, that he saved our nation, by the preachers he sent hither, from the teeth of the old enemy, and made it partaker of eternal liberty. Rejoicing in the faith and salvation of our race, an…
King Oswin’s humility is shown when he gives Bishop Aidan’s horse to a beggar, then publicly humbles himself to Aidan and is later foretold to die soon, which indeed occurs.
was distinguished and, if I may say so, blessed in a special manner, humility is said to have been the greatest, which it will suffice to prove by one instance. He had given a beautiful horse to Bishop Aidan, to use either in crossing rivers, or in performing a journey upon any urgent necessity, though the Bishop was wont to travel ordinarily on foot. Some short time after, a poor man meeting the Bishop, and asking …
In early childhood, Teresa describes devout parents, especially her father’s charity and truthfulness and her mother’s holiness despite illness, and how their example shaped her earliest piety.
Childhood and Early Impressions. The Blessing of Pious Parents. Desire of Martyrdom. Death of the Saint's Mother. 1. I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked. My father was very much given to the reading of good books; and so he had them in Spanish, that his children might read t…
He explains household provisioning: surplus from principal tables is sent to servants and then to the poor, and he details drink practices and vessel types, praising a system meant to curb idle drinking.
unto their tables (and many times unlooked for), and thereto retain great numbers of servants, it is very requisite and expedient for them to be somewhat plentiful in this behalf. The chief part likewise of their daily provision is brought in before them (commonly in silver vessels, if they be of the degree of barons, bishops, and upwards) and placed on their tables, whereof, when they have taken what it pleaseth th…