This altar piece is probably from Saint Adrian Church in Adrian, Minnesota. Check out the matching picture below the altar as well as the icon. The saint on the right might be Saint Rose of Lima? and the one on the left might be Saint Catherine of Siena. But I'm open to correction. This was [...]
Category: catholic scientists
Dominic was he called …
Envoy and servant sooth he seemed of Christ,For the first love made manifest in himWas the first counsel that was given by Christ. Dante, Paradiso, Canto 12 August 8 was the Feast Day of Saint Dominic, founder of the Order of Preachers. I thought it would be entertaining to look up Dominican scientists and write [...]
American Sign Language is French
Modern American Sign Language has French origins. Two priests, Abbe Charles Michel de l’Epee and the Abbe Sicard were the proximate cause. Abbe de l’Epee had founded a school for the deaf in Paris in the late 1700’s. Abbe Sicard ran it after he died. When Thomas Gallaudet, an American who was trying to found [...]
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