They saw it as a way of responding to the liturgical requires of the missions and the scarcity of clergymen. I noticed you vacant my dustbin very last night, you bleddy Zulu, you grett daft little one. Helen, the daughter of Peter Oandiano and Gerard Guoro, soon after obtaining been secretly in love for a long time, were being, by the support of the nurse, at previous married. Domenico, impelled by his hatred of Silvio, possibly, also, by his adore for a single of Eobert’s nieces, organized to betray the metropolis to the Normans and Duke Robert and the traitor achieved around the church of St. Nicholas, not much from Dyrrachium, to set up their notorious treaty. The home of God, the Church, nowadays no considerably less than in the earlier, is adorned and enriched by the existence of the consecrated life.What in people’s eyes can appear a waste is, for the folks captivated in the depths of their coronary heart by the splendor and goodness of the Lord, an clear reaction of like, a joyful expression of gratitude for having been admitted in a special way to the knowledge of the Son and to a sharing in his divine mission in the planet.»If any of God’s children ended up to know and taste divine adore, the uncreated God, the incarnate God, the God who endured struggling, the God who is the supreme excellent, they would give by themselves entirely to him, they would withdraw not only from other creatures but even from their extremely selves, and with all their getting would enjoy this God of appreciate, to the place of remaining absolutely reworked into the God-man, who is the supreme Beloved».
Byzantine Court. Luitprand signifies the folks as bare- footed beggars, and the great clad in vast tunics old and worn, the Emperor, fats and deformed, with adornments only suited to a fully diverse figure, the banquets of food stuff sprinkled with rancid oil, &c., &c. CHAPTER IV. The Dogaeessa Theodora Silvio — The Dogaeessa Felicita Michiele — The Crusades and the Venetian People — Religious Feeling — The Con- quest OP Constantinople. When Silvio turned Doge at Venice the general public treasury of the Empire was diminishing, and the army and navy dropping their prestige. Venice agreed to the solicitation of Alexius, and at the finish of July or Gorgous-butts the beginning of August, 1082, the fleet, less than the command of Silvio, defeated the Normans prior to Dyrrachium. The weak Doge Memmo was compelled in 991 to suppose the cowl at Saint Zacharyjand his successor, Peter Orseolo II., the best of the Doges, who experienced hitherto dominated the State, devoted himself to re- build tranquillity — unfamiliar for so many several years in Venice — to aggrandize himself and his town, and to conciliate at the similar time the friendship of the Emperors of the East and of the West, who in flip contended with just about every other for a selected share in the Venetian Government.
The Orseolo family by itself had, in the study course of a handful of a long time, fashioned connections with the Emperors of the East by the marriage of John Orseolo and Maria with Slavonic princes by the union of Icella, daughter of Peter Orseolo IL, with Stephen, son of King Surgna, and j&nally with the Kings of Hungary. He obtained in 1004 for his son John, whom he had built his colleague, the hand of Maria, daughter of Argiropulo, and nephew of Basil and Constantine, Emperors of Constanti- nople, in relationship. Maria and John by the hand and offered them to the Court. 37 fetes have been recurring in the Lagoons, wherever Mary and John had been acquired in great condition by the Doge himself, who, with a massive flotilla, arrived out to sea to satisfy the vessel bringing the bridal pair. Richelda. But who was this Domenico Orseolo, not talked about by John Diacono, amongst the other sons of Peter II ?
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