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  Francis Parkman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1843, at the age of 20, he traveled to Europe for eight months in the fashion of the Grand Tour.
Parkman made expeditions through the Alps and the Apennine mountains, climbed Vesuvius, and even lived for a time in Rome, where he befriended Passionist monks who tried, unsuccessfully, to convert him to Catholicism.
Upon graduation in 1846, he was persuaded to get a law degree, his father hoping such study would rid Parkman of his desire to write his history of the forests.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Parkman   (1356 words)

  
 Spiritual Retreats on Long Island
What was once the magnificent wood-carved dining hall of the estate when owned by multimillionaires Nicholas and Genevieve Brady is now the ornate St. Ignatius chapel.
Much more rustic is the St. Gabriel's Passionist Retreat House on 35 acres of waterfront property on Shelter Island.
In addition to some unpretentious contemporary structures is a 190-year-old converted farm house, an athletic field, a swimming pool, and a 60-year-old chapel, which, according to the retreat director, Sister Maureen Kervick, creates a treasured memory for most retreatants.
www.arthurstreet.com /retreat.html   (1237 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John Henry Newman
It has many most original passages, but remains a fragment.
On 9 October, 1845, during a period of excited action at Oxford, Newman was received into the Church by Father Dominic, an Italian Passionist, three days after Renan had broken with Saint-Sulpice and Catholicism.
The event, although long in prospect, irritated and distressed his countrymen, who did not forgive it until many years had gone by.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/10794a.htm   (6553 words)

  
 What Is The Great Story?
The spiritual and psychological benefits that flow naturally from living within an awareness of this story are experienced as Great News by a growing number of people the world over.
Great news, in turn, draws each of us to participate in, what celebrated cultural historian and Passionist priest Thomas Berry calls the Great Work — the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species.
Whenever a new discovery is made in the sciences, this creation story changes.
www.thegreatstory.org /what_is.html   (3081 words)

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