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	Venice Churches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The church later suffered damage from fire and was modified many times to adapt to Venice's evolution of power and wealth.
		The Dominican church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo (San Zanipolo in the Venetian dialect; founded in 1246 and consecrated in 1430), is of rose-coloured stone, its vast interior designed for the large congregations of urban poor whom it served.
		The church is fundamental stage in order to know the painting of Jacopo Robusti called the Tintoretto that here finally it was buried with the sons in the right chapel close to the main altar.
	www.venicewelcome.com /chiese/churches.htm (910 words)

	Liverpool - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Inspired by an old Venetian custom, Liverpool was 'married to the sea' in September 1928.
		Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas the seafarers church and Liverpool parish church.
		Liverpool once possessed a very integrated transport system, until the deregulation of bus and rail services, and only now have there been plans to build a light rail system, Merseytram, the first since the city's tram system was dismantled in the 1950s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Liverpool (2478 words)

	Best of Venice - Best of Venice, Italy - Venezien, Venezia, Venedig, Venetian, Venice Beach - Lido, & Lido di Venezia.
		Throughout the 15th century, Venetian land forces were almost always on the offensive and were regarded as the most effective in Italy, largely because of the tradition of all classes carrying arms in defense of the city and official encouragement of general military training.
		The Venetian military tradition also was notably cautious; they were more interested in achieving success with a minimum expense of lives and money than in the pursuit of glory.
		The classical Venetian boat is the gondola, although it is now mostly used for tourists, or for weddings, funerals, or other ceremonies, due to its cost.
	bestofvenice.com (2341 words)

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		Carlo Maderno and Borromini are buried in the church and the altar is by Borromini.
		This is an amazing church because there are crystal chandeliers bordering both sides of the central nave from the entrance to the church all the way up the sides and to the High Altar (36 in all, 18 on each side).
		This church was once one of the four towers that was part of the corner of the gigantic Baths of Diocletian and is round.
	www.stuardtclarkesrome.com /churches.htm (12558 words)

	CHURCH OF CHRIST CALLED LIBERTY (FAYETTE COUNTY, IND.) RECORD BOOK, 1822-1891 (BULK 1822-1836)
		The church records stop in 1836, which may or may not indicate the end of the church itself.
		Joseph Hawkins was listed as a justice of the peace in 1819 and 1824.
		Church government was clearly by the congregation, and the methods of dealing with conflicts and errors are similar to those used by New England Congregationalists.
	indianahistory.org /library/manuscripts/collection_guides/sc2301.html (624 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Organ
		Ctesibius, the inventor of the hydraulus, and the Venetian Georgius, who built the first organ north of the Alps, have already been mentioned, It is interesting to find a pope among the organ-builders of history: Sylvester II (999-1003), who seems to have built a hydraulic organ (Pretorius, "Syntagma Musicum", II, 92).
		In the early centuries the objection of the Church to instrumental music applied also to the organ, which is not surprising, if we remember the association of the hydraulus with theatre and circus.
		At all events, a strong objection to the organ in church service remained pretty general down to the twelfth century, which may be accounted for partly by the imperfection of tone in organs of that time.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11297a.htm (6026 words)

	Rome and Romania, Roman Emperors, Byzantine Emperors, etc.
		With a church, however, the purpose was not to house God, whose presence was ineffable, but to house the congregation, the ekklêsía, the "assembly" that gave its name in many modern languages for "church" (which itself seems to be from kyriakos, "of the Lord").
		The public side of a church is thus the interior, not the exterior, and the outwardly ugliest early churches often contain marvelous inner spaces, with rich decoration.
		However hostile to the French, the spirit of Venetian independence was soon forgotten, and it was the Sardinian Kingdom of Italy that detached Venice from Austria in 1866.
	www.friesian.com /romania.htm (14392 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Italian churches charging entrance fee
		Venetians and clergy are exempt, as are visitors who come just to pray or attend Mass.
		Ticket revenue permitted the church to increase the number of custodians from two to 19, remove graffiti and chewing gum from walls and pavement and pay the bill to illuminate the entire church, Rosetti said.
		Churches, including St. Peter's, do not charge admission, although offering boxes are strategically placed, like the one in front of Michelangelo's "Pieta" sculpture, kept behind protective glass near the entrance of the Vatican basilica.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595111540,00.html (793 words)

	HomeIssues.com - Materials Category Listing
		Venetian Blinds for Windows - Venetian Blinds, a poem by Eric W. Sargent, raises the shades on blinds, poetically speaking.
		Originally a branched candle holder made of wood or iron and suspended from the ceilings of Anglo-Saxon churches prior to the Norman Conquest (1066), the chandelier remained solely in the realm...
		Venetian Blinds - Venetian Blinds, a poem by Eric W. Sargent, raises the shades on blinds, poetically speaking.
	www.homeissues.com /viewcategory.cgi?category=3 (2886 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Gregory XVI
		Then the secular clergy were attacked: twenty-two dioceses were left without bishops, Jansenist priests were admitted to the committee appointed to "reform the Church", the salaries of the priests were confiscated.
		In 1840 bishops were driven from their sees, and when the nuncio protested against arbitrary acts of the government in power, he was conducted to the frontier.
		During his reign the losses of the Church in Europe were more than balanced by her gains in the rest of the world.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07006a.htm (3206 words)

	Slow Travel Italy - Venice, my favorite lesser known churches
		Finding churches open is often just a matter of luck (either no opening hours are posted, they’re closed for renovation, or they aren’t open when they are "supposed" to be).
		This church is in a wonderful neighborhood between San Polo and Santa Croce with ancient Gothic palazzi in the campo surrounding the church.
		There are many paintings in Venetian churches that are dark and hard to see (too much varnish and age, and in need of restoration or cleaning), but these paintings are vivid and beautiful.
	www.slowtrav.com /italy/venice/aa_churches.htm (1095 words)

	ITALIA - Spotlight On ... The Islands of Venice Lagoon - Veneto
		Many of its monuments have disappeared in the swamp that started expanding after the XIV century; while others were dismantled to recover the materials subsequently used for other buildings.
		Venetian cuisine is known for its variety of dishes and ingredients.
		The cuisine is based largely on seafood and one of the most representative dish is fish risotto which comes in a variety of forms, the strangest one is the risotto alle seppie with a bright fl color that's a result of the cuttlefish being cooked in its own ink.
	www.italiantourism.com /island8.html (531 words)

	BS Foundations chapter 9
		The image of the primitive Church in scripture contrasted visibly with the rich and worldly ecclesiastical edifice of the later Middle Ages.
		Preachers carried his ideas on disendowment of the church and the rule of the righteous to broad masses, but in the process Wyclif's political conservatism was lost in favor of a more radical anarchistic flavor.
		Charles IV was not about to let the nobles control the church, and in the early years of his reign, he received a number papal provisions giving him wide ranging powers over the appointment of bishops in Bohemia and the Empire.
	www.oglethorpe.edu /faculty/~b_smith/ou/bs_foundations_chapter9.htm (18931 words)

	Naxos : Attractions : Byzantine Churches \| Frommers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The prosperity of Naxos during this period of Byzantine and Venetian rule meant that sponsorship existed for elaborate frescoes, many of which can still be seen on the interior walls of the chapels.
		The church of Ayios Nikolaos, which dates to the 13th century, has well-preserved frescoes, with a lovely figure of the personified River Jordan.
		Alas, these churches are kept locked, due to increasing problems with theft, although the caretaker often makes an early morning or early evening visit.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/naxos/1651024922.html (545 words)

	Venice Monuments - St Mark Square - Doge's Palace - Basilica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The square is lined with the buildings called the Procuratia, which housed the offices and apartments of high placed officials in the Venetian government.
		The Venetians acted to fulfill the divine profecy.
		The capitals of the columns, particularly the angle capital which was eulogised by Ruskin in The Stones of Venice, are celebrated for the delicate carving in low-grained marble.
	www.venicewelcome.com /monuments/monumets.htm (764 words)

	Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music \| Vol. 8 No. 1 \| Kurtzman Part II
		Processions were a major contributor to Venetian identity and civic pride, unifying the city divided by innumerable canals through their dazzling visual display and sometimes deafening auditory components that traveled far over the waters beyond the sight of the corteo itself.
		At the end of mass, as the company exited from the church, a psalm was sung, trumpets were again sounded, and mortars and canons were fired after the company embarked in gondolas and traversed the grand canal.
		A player of the tromba is listed as a member of the Scuola San Marco in 1470, and the scuola hired five instrumentalists (three pifari and two tromboni) to play at specified feasts in February of 1503 (new style), by which time the term trombone clearly meant a U-shaped double-slide instrument.
	sscm-jscm.press.uiuc.edu /jscm/v8/no1/Kurtzman_II.html (12227 words)

	Saints Promoters of the Canonical Life for Priests St
		He strove mightily to reform the Church and was especially interested in promoting the ancient institution of the canon as a means of giving the clergy of his time a way of life that would strengthen them and give them greater impetus to sanctity.
		Born at a low point in the life of the Church in Ireland, Malachy from the age of 25 was ordained priest and commissioned by St. Celsus, archbishop of Armagh, to reform the Church.
		He was a fierce combatant and struggled mightily for the reform of the clergy, the independence of the Church and the solemnity of the marriage bond.
	www.augustiniancanons.org /About/saints.htm (13716 words)

	Historic Districts Council
		The church was closed a year ago when the Archdiocese announced its plans to replace the building with 57 units of housing for the elderly.
		In addition to its architectural excellence, the church is also known for its important role in the history of Harlem, for which it has served as the cultural base for local luminaries such as Hulan Jack, the first African-American Borough President.
		Thomas the Apostle isn’t the only historic church at risk – throughout the city, the Catholic Church is closing historic churches because of shrinking congregations and financial difficulties.
	www.hdc.org /e-bulletin01_08.htm (1851 words)

	What John Julius Norwich Forgot to Tell You About The Byzantine Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It was largely because of this seminal crime that the Orthodox Church, in no small part, still opposes union with Rome, starting from the grass-roots rebellion that deposed the prelates present at the "Coun cil of Florence," imposing "unity" by force.
		The myth that the church was a vassal to the state is easily remedied by making mention of the endless list of emperors who supported the equally endless list of heretical movements that sprang up in the east before the turn of the first millennium.
		The power and popularity of the church acted as a check against the pretensions of the emperor, while the emperor's own demand for power and recognition led him to forbid the existence of a theocracy.
	www.barnesreview.org /May_June/What_John_Julius_Norwich_Forgo/what_john_julius_norwich_forgo.html (3486 words)

	Venice Rialto Bridge - Bridge of Sighs - Ca' d'Oro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		To meander along the canal by gondola is literally to take a journey through Venetian history.
		In reality, the days of inquisitions and torture were over by the time the bridge was built and only small time crooks were kept in the prison cells.
		The prison building is older than the Doge's palace and was at one time used during the inquisition by the Church during the Middle Ages (when people were suspected of being witches or non believers and tortured).
	www.venicewelcome.com /monuments/monumets2.htm (660 words)

	pomegranatesandpaper: Church
		Church can appear with surprise and delight, but you can’t rely on these splendid moments to pop up with regularity if you keep your back turned to it and your head sunk down watching the path of your feet on the sidewalk of life.
		A member of my artist’s email lists posts that she is ill, and a church of posts appears, with recipes for chicken soup, suggestions for homeopathic remedies, and just the plain words of we are here and we care.
		I totally agree with you in seeing church and religion in the open air, daily living of what He has created before walls were built to hold it in.
	artjournaler.typepad.com /pomegranatesandpaper/2004/02/church.html (1093 words)

	CONSUL - Online Information article about CONSUL
		Anglican churches, hospitals, and places of interment sums equal to the amount subscribed for the purpose by the resident British subjects.
		list," or list of passengers, so that the consul may transmit to the registrar-general, for insertion in the Marine See also:
		In the general consular service appointments are sometimes made to the higher officesfrom the ranks, but more usually from a select list of nominees, who must pass a qualifying examination.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /COM_COR/CONSUL.html (5544 words)

	Titian Painting Added To List of Stolen British Art
		The January 6 theft of the 16th century Venetian master's ``Rest on the Flight Into Egypt'' from the Marquess of Bath's museumlike collection adds to Britain and the world's ballooning wanted list of stolen paintings and antiques.
		It turned to have been stolen from the vacationer's church -- exposing a rash of raids against church treasures.
		Last September, a 12th century gold and ivory casket worth $1.6 million was stolen from a church.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1995/01/17/DD23753.DTL&type=printable (455 words)

	Kastro/Archaeological Museum/Venetian Museum \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Naxos \| Frommers.com
		The archaeological museum is located in the heart of the exquisite Venetian Kastro, the medieval citadel that dominates the town.
		Look for the incision on the right column of the arch, which marks the length of a Venetian yard, and was used to measure the cloth brought here for the ladies of the Venetian court.
		The Venetian Museum, located at the north entry to the Kastro, is a typical Kastro house, home of the Della-Rocca family, recently opened to the public.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/naxos/A28210.html (624 words)

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		This thematic catalogue of nearly 1300 music manuscripts of Venetian ospedali composers is a vital resource for scholars of Venetian choral music.
		There are cross referenc es of the duplicate and revised manuscripts with the specific entry and a complete listing of them in a separate section of the catalogue as well.
		The catalogue also includes a table of the maestri at St. Mark's and the ospedali, as w ell as a list of the castrati and other soloists who performed there, and nearly four hundred of the figlie di coro (girl singers at the ospedali).
	www.pendragonpress.com /cgi-bin/bl.cgi?isbn=0-945193-72-6 (278 words)

	Crusader States, Kings of Jerusalem & Cyprus, Templars, Hospitallers, Israel, etc.
		St. Peter is supposed to have founded a church there, in cliffs outside the city, which the author visited in 1970.
		One very intriguing story is that the Templars had in their Paris church the great Menôrâh of Herod's Temple, which Titus had taken to Rome after the fall of Jerusalem, and which later ended up in Constantinople.
		The lists of Grand Masters of the Teutonic and Livonian Knights were originally taken from Bruce R. Gordon's Regnal Chronologies.
	www.friesian.com /outremer.htm (13900 words)

	World Heritage Sites in India
		The churches in Goa, of many different religious denominations illustrate the evangelization of Asia.
		The style combines the Venetian Gothic popular in England at the time with elements of Indian architecture, and is built in the local red sandstone.
		A thirteen-foot personification of Progress, raising her arm toward the skies, tops the central dome.
	fp.thesalmons.org /lynn/wh-india.html (865 words)

	MTNS98 Home Page
		From the 16th to the 18th century the Venetian nobility erected many villas along the Brenta riviera, the waterway from Padova to Venice.
		More a palace than a villa, Villa Pisani was commissioned in the mid 18th century by one of the most powerful Venetian families, the Pisani.
		These lovely small cities are part of an itinerary which crosses a hilly landscape pointed by ancient churches, small villages and vineyards.
	texas.math.ttu.edu /~gilliam/mtns98/mtns98_web00.html (1106 words)

	HOLY TRANSFIGURATION MONASTERY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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	www.ocf.org /OrthodoxPage/resource/HTM_price.html (1033 words)

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