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  Wilfrid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At Lyons Wilfrid's pleasing features and quick intelligence made Annemund, the archbishop, desire to adopt him and marry him to his niece.
Wilfrid appealed and went to Rome in 679.
Wilfrid must have been in Austrasia at this time, because according to his biographer Eddius Stephanus, Wilfrid left Austrasia after the death of Dagobert II, in mortal danger from the supporters of Duke Ebrion.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Wilfrid
Chiefly owing to Wilfrid's advocacy of the claims of the Holy See the votes of the majority were given to that side, and Colman and his monks, bitterly disappointed, withdrew from Northumbria.
Wilfrid, in consequence of the favours he had then obtained, was elected bishop in Colman's place, and, refusing to receive consecration from the northern bishops, whom he regarded as schismatics, went over to France to be consecrated at Compiègne.
Wilfrid was to return to York, and since subdivision of his diocese was needed, he was to appoint others as his coadjutors.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15621c.htm   (1371 words)

  
 Patron Saints Index: Saint Wilfrid of York
Wilfrid was chosen as the new bishop and travelled to France for ordination, considering the dissenting northern bishops to be schismatics.
Wilfrid retired to the monastery at Ripon and evagelized in Mercia and Kent.
In the end Wilfrid accepted, deciding that the result of this turmoil was that everyone involved had agreed to the authority and primacy of the Pope and the Vatican, the principle he had fought for all along.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saintw64.htm   (481 words)

  
 Books | Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter
The name 'Wilfrid' was in some respects a startling choice, and showed in Stanley and Hilda a streak of romanticism and a usually hidden dash of contrariness.
Wilfrid, eleven years old when they arrived in Paris, took Anthony on expeditions to explore the city, wheeling him round on the handlebars of his bicycle.
Wilfrid, in his memoirs, struggled to give him his due: "he was a good father to us, but I could never get close to him.
books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4299929-101284,00.html   (4639 words)

  
 Wilfrid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks, looking to defend the Yates Cup, piled up their biggest score of the year by mauling the York Lions 56-3 yesterday at University...
Wilfrid was born of noble family in Northumberland, England, in about 634, and educated at Lindesfarne before spending time in Lyons and Rome.
While in exile, Wilfrid evangelized the Saxons, and traveled as a missionary to Friesland in 678-679; perhaps the beginning of the English mission to the Germanic peoples of the continent.
www.wikiverse.org /wilfrid   (727 words)

  
 The Ecole Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The first Anglo-Saxon to appeal to Rome, St. Wilfrid was born in 634 and was the son of a thane of Northumbria.
Wilfrid argued the case for Roman rites at the Synod of Whitby in 664.
Wilfrid was imprisoned on his return and exiled to Suffolk, where he preached among the pagans.
www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/wilfrid.html   (313 words)

  
 Wilfrid, Saint on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Moved by Wilfrid's eloquence, King Oswy at the Synod of Whitby (663; see Whitby, Synod of) rejected Celtic usages, including the reckoning of Easter, and established instead the Roman custom.
That year Wilfrid was consecrated bishop of Ripon; in 669 his diocese was extended to include all of Northumbria with its see of York.
It was compromised with the aid of the pope, and Wilfrid ended as bishop of Ripon and Hexham.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/Wilfrid.asp   (352 words)

  
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And here Wilfrid was seized with a yawn, and rose, and asked his eldest sister if she meant to attend the service that morning.
Wilfrid was perhaps the most critical auditor present: for he doubted whether she could renew that singular charm of her singing in the pale lighted woods.
Wilfrid, he knew not why, had got a sudden hunger for all the days of her life.
www.cise.ufl.edu /mirrors/gutenberg/etext03/gm19v10.txt   (20862 words)

  
 Wilfrid Laurier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Right Honourable Sir Wilfrid Laurier, PC (November 20, 1841 – February 17, 1919) was the seventh Prime Minister of Canada from July 11, 1896, to October 7, 1911.
Laurier died on February 17, 1919, and was buried in Notre Dame Cemetery, Ottawa, Ontario.
On November 1, 1973, Waterloo Lutheran University, one of Ontario's publicly funded universities, was renamed Wilfrid Laurier University.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wilfrid_Laurier   (1490 words)

  
 Wilfrid Hirst
Wilfrid was ordained in Southwark Cathedral by The Right Reverend Mervyn Stockwood and spent 2 ½ years as curate at St Peter’s Woodmansterne and then moved to Peaslake Nr Guildford to be Priest in Charge.
Wilfrid married Irene in 1937 and have a son and a daughter.
Wilfrid's Hospice (aptly named) for their loving care throughout the ten days Father Wilfrid was with them.
www.wilfrid.com /people/wilfrid_hirst.htm   (999 words)

  
 Haitian Paintings by Wilfrid Teleon from Galerie Macondo
Wilfrid Teleon was born in Cap Haitien in 1958.
Wilfrid was a sociable person; He was involved with the theater and other musical and cultural pursuits.
Wilfrid died prematurely of an incurable disease in October 1992.
www.artshaitian.com /Pages/haitianartwilfrid.html   (177 words)

  
 St Wilfrid's Church, Bishop Auckland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
St Wilfrid's is one of the Catholic Churches in the Bishop Auckland Area.
St Wilfrid's Church was built in 1846, to serve the increasing Catholic population of Bishop Auckland, as Irish immigrants came to provide labour for the new industries in the area.
St Wilfrid’s was the main Catholic parish in the area for almost 100 years until two further Parishes were created in the area in the 1950s: St Mary's and St Paulinus'.
www.rcdhn.org.uk /churches/bishop_auckland_st_wilfrid.htm   (207 words)

  
 My Brighton and Hove | St Wilfrid's Church, Elm Grove | Personal view   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
"St Wilfrid's Church was at the centre of life in Elm Grove for all of its 80 years.
The Sunday School and youth activities connected with St Wilfrid's were a very important part of the lives of many young people in the Elm Grove area.
I was in the choir in 1933 at the old corrugated iron St Wilfrid's in Elm Grove when services were held in the Church Hall, and the church was being pulled down so that the new brick church could be built.
www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk /st_wilfrid_personal.htm   (287 words)

  
 Wilfrid 12 October 709
In 664 a conference was held (the Synod of Whitby) to settle the usages controversy, and the Roman party triumphed, thanks in large part to the leadership of Wilfrid.
For the next few years, Wilfrid enjoyed peace and prosperity, stood high in the favor of King Efrith of Northumbria, and was undisputed bishop of a diocese that included the entire kingdom of Northumbria, with his cathedral at York.
The pope eventually sided with Wilfrid, but the ruling was not accepted in England, and Wilfrid was banished from Northumbria.
www.missionstclare.com /english/people/oct12.html   (477 words)

  
 Brambell, Wilfrid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
British character actor Wilfrid Brambell became nationally famous late in his career as Albert Steptoe in the BBC's most popular and successful sitcom, Steptoe and Son, although the character he played, as often throughout his career, was considerably older than he was.
Harry H. Corbett was cast as Harold Steptoe and Wilfrid Brambell given the role of his father Albert.
Wilfrid Brambell played Harold Steptoe as a grumpy old curmudgeon, capable of resorting to the most pathetic pleading to get his own way.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/B/htmlB/brambellwill/brambellwill.htm   (599 words)

  
 The Humboldt Journal, Vol. 5, No. 41 July 28, 1910   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
When the chairman said that the next speaker would be Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the vast audience rose as one person and cheered to the echo, and it was some time before a hearing could be gained.
Sir Wilfrid made a fine patriotic address in which he appealed to men of all creeds and nationalities in Canada to unite in defense of the empire, to which he said Canada would ever bear allegiance.
Sir Wilfrid pointed out that one of these obligations was the duty of defending the Empire, of which they were a part.
collections.ic.gc.ca /humboldt/journal/sirla03a.htm   (675 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge (Public Television Storytime Books (Paperback))   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge lives next to an old folks home and (as the book is quick to point out), "he wasn't very old either".
Wilfrid asks what a memory is and his pop explains that it's something you remember.
Wilfrid is your average kid, skateboarding in the old folks home and climbing hither and yon.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/091629126X?v=glance   (1803 words)

  
 Independent Catholic News
Br Wilfrid, as he was then known, successfully completed studies in both Geography and Latin and was ordained priest in July 1939.
Fr Wilfrid's work in Lancashire began in 1956 when he was appointed parish priest of the parish of Our Lady of Lourdes and Saint Gerard Majella in Lostock Hall, Preston.
Fr Wilfrid's last appointment came at the age of 72, when he moved to St Mary's Leyland and worked there as assistant priest for almost twenty years until ill health forced him to return to Ampleforth Abbey at the start of 2003.
www.indcatholicnews.com /ampl.html   (452 words)

  
 Wilfrid Sellars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wilfrid Stalker Sellars (May 20 1912 - July 2 1989) was an American philosopher of great sophistication.
He was the first pragmatist to take on English analytic philosophy and logical positivism.
The Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars: Queries and Extensions : Papers Deriving from and Related to a Workshop on the Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars Held (Philosophical Studies Series)
www.freeglossary.com /Wilfrid_Sellars   (353 words)

  
 Profile of Wilfrid Laurier University - Ontario, Canada Universities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wilfrid Laurier University: Established: 1911 (Originally called the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary of Canada; in 1960 it was renamed Waterloo Lutheran University.
Programs: Wilfrid Laurier University provides a broad spectrum of undergraduate and graduate degrees, diplomas, and certificates encompassing over 80 areas of study from the Faculties of Arts, Business and Economics, Music, Science, and Social Work.
As part of the 'TriUniversity Group of Libraries,' Wilfrid Laurier University pools its library resources with those of the University of Guelph and the University of Waterloo to offer its students access to over 6 million printed items.
www.canadian-universities.net /Universities/Wilfrid-Laurier-University.html   (304 words)

  
 Wilfrid Holland, Biography : Australian Music Centre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wilfrid Holland was born in Hull, England, on 27 June 1920.
From this point his composition also changed from writing choral music to turning his hand to solo songs, which he found a far more personal business, since solo work must be tailored to suit the personality as well as the technical skill of the singer concerned.
Wilfrid was active as a private music teacher, and was awarded the Canberra Critics' Circle Award (Music) in October 1993 for "outstanding contribution to musical life in Canberra as teacher, composer and conductor".
www.amcoz.com.au /comp/h/wholl.htm   (422 words)

  
 Henri Wilfrid Deville ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Wilfrid Williams Ball, A silent Highway, plate 24 in the book, The Etcher (London: Sampson Lowä, 1880), vol.
Wilfrid Williams Ball, The lone Field, plate 6 in the book, The Etcher (London: Sampson Lowä, 1880), vol.
Wilfrid Williams Ball, Sark Pond, plate 7 in the book, The Etcher (London: Sampson Lowä, 1880), vol.
www.wwar.com /masters/d/deville-henri_wilfrid.html   (666 words)

  
 My Brighton and Hove | St Wilfrid's Church, Elm Grove | Memories   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Although my husband and I moved away from Brighton, the town and St Wilfrid's was always home and we came 'home' frequently in the early days, bringing our children to be Christened at St Wilfrid's.
It was with unbelieving shock and sadness we learned that St Wilfrid's was to be closed and the building possibly demolished.
The gathering that followed in St Wilfrid's Hall brought together many who had not met for years and memories and anecdotes were revived.
www.mybrightonandhove.org.uk /st_wilfrid_memories.htm   (359 words)

  
 Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - Sellars, Wilfrid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
His father was the well-known naturalist philosopher Roy Wood Sellars, who taught at the University of Michigan.
Wilfrid Sellars received a BA from the University of Michigan in 1933 and an MA from the University of Buffalo in 1934.
He went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and received a BA there in 1936 and an MA in 1940.
www.artsci.wustl.edu /~philos/MindDict/sellars.html   (1853 words)

  
 People - Canadian Heritage Gallery
A Young Wilfrid Laurier The young Wilfrid Laurier, born in Lower Canada in 1841, as a rising Quebec Liberal and distinguished in law and journalism.
Wilfrid Laurier Sir Wilfrid Laurier in mid-career, 1907.
Wilfrid Laurier in 1910 Canadian Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier during his Western visit in 1910.
www.canadianheritage.org /galleries/people2500.htm   (258 words)

  
 Wilfrid Sellars
Although Wilfrid Sellars is best known for his his ground-breaking essay "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind" [EPM] and his critique of what he there called "the myth of the given", he was in fact a systematic philosopher par excellence.
The Metaphysics of Epistemology, Lectures by Wilfrid Sellars, edited by Pedro Amaral, (Ridgeview Publishing Co.; Atascadero, CA; 1989).
Pitt, Joseph C., ed., The Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars: Queries and Extensions [PSQE] (D. Reidel Publishing Co; Dordrecht, Holland; 1978).
plato.stanford.edu /entries/sellars   (4966 words)

  
 Wilfrid Mellers
Wilfrid Mellers was born on 26 April 1914 and educated at Cambridge University, where he read English, and then Music: composition, however, he learned mostly from Edmund Rubbra and Egon Wellesz.
After the War he taught in the universities of Cambridge and of Birmingham, and in the early sixties at Pittsburgh University.
Wilfrid Mellers examines Handel's oratorio Il Trionfo del Tempo e della Verità
www.mvdaily.com /mellers   (258 words)

  
 Problems from Wilfrid Sellars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wilfrid Sellars, "Autobiographical Reflections: (February, 1973)" Published in Action, Knowledge and Reality, edited by H.N. Castañeda (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975): 277-93.
Jay Rosenberg, "Fusing the Images: Nachruf for Wilfrid Sellars," Journal for General Philosophy of Science (Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie), 21 (1990): 3-25.
Susanna Downie (ed.), In Memoriam (a collection of remarks made at the Memorial Service for Wilfrid Sellars in the Heinz Chapel at Pitt (1989), and some additional remarks by some of his students), 1990.
www.ditext.com /sellars   (171 words)

  
 Additional Reading (from Laurier, Sir Wilfrid) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Authoritative and sympathetic biographies of Laurier are L.O. David, Laurier: sa vie—ses oeuvres (1919); and O.D. Skelton, The Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, 2 vol.
also called Wilfrid Of York one of the greatest English saints, a monk and bishop who was outstanding in bringing about close relations between the Anglo-Saxon Church and the papacy.
He devoted his life to establishing the observances of the Roman Church over those of the Celtic Church and fought a stormy series of controversies on discipline and precedent.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-4091?tocId=4091   (841 words)

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