Friday, November 29, 2024
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Catharine, a noble virgin of Alexandria
Catharina, nobilis virgo Alexandrina, a prima aetate studia liberalium artium cum fidei ardore conjungens, brevi ad eam sanctitatis et doctrinae perfectionem pervenit, ut decem et octo anuos nata eruditissimum quemque superaret. Quae cum Maximini jussu multos propter christianae religionis professionem varie tornetis cruciatos, ad supplicium rapi videret, non dubitanter ipsum audiit Maximinum, eique nefariam immanitatem objeciens, sapientissimis rationibus Christi fidem ad salutem necessariam esse affirmavit.
Cujus prudentiam Maximinus admiratus, retineri eam jubet, accersitis undique doctissimis hominibus, magnisque propositis praemiis, qui convictam Catharinam a Christi fide ad idolorum cultum perduxissent. Quod contra accidit. Nam plures philosophi, qui ad eam coarguendam convenerant, vi ac subtilitate ejus disputationis tauto Jesu Christi amore sunt incensi, ut pro illo mori non dubitaverint. Quamobrem Maximinus blanditiis ac promissis Catharinam de sententia deducere aggreditur: verum id frustra fieri intelligens, verberibus affectam, plumbatisque contusam, dies undecim sine cibo ac potu inclusam tenet in carcere.
Quo tempore Maximini uxor, et Porphyrius belli dux, visendae virginis causa carcerem ingressi, et ejusdem praedicatione in Jesum Christum credentes, postea martyrio coronati sunt. Interim Catharina educitur e custodia, et rota expeditur, crebris et acutis praefixa gladiis, ut virginis corpus crudelissime dilaceraretur. Quae machina brevi, Catharinae oratione, confracta est: eoque miraculo multi Christi fidem suscepereunt. Ipse Maximinus in impietate et crudelitate obstinatior, Catharinam securi percuti imperat. Quae fortiter dato capite, ad duplicatum virginitatis et martyrii praemium evolavit septimo calendas Decembris: cujus corpus ab angelis in Sina Arabiae monte mirabiliter collocatum est.
Catharine, a noble virgin of Alexandria, united from early youth the study of the liberal arts with an ardent faith; and attained in a short time to such a degree of holiness and science, that at the age of eighteen she surpassed the most learned men. Seeing many, at the command of Maximin, cruelly tortured and executed for professing the Christian religion, she went boldly to Maximin himself and reproached him for his impious cruelty, showing him by wise reasons that faith in Christ is necessary for salvation.
Maximin, marvelling at her wisdom, caused her to be kept in custody. Then he summoned the most learned men from all parts, and promised a large reward to him that should refute Catharine's arguments, and lead her from the faith of Christ to the worship of idols. But the result was contrary to his expectations. For many of the philosophers who had assembled to refute her were, by the force and subtility of her reasoning, so enkindled with love of Jesus Christ, that they were ready to die for him. Maximin next tried to seduce her by flatteries and promises; but seeing his labour lost, he caused her to be lashed and torn with scourges tipped with lead, and finally shut up in prison for eleven days without food or drink.
During this interval, Maximin’s wife, and Porphyrius general of the army, going to see the virgin in prison, were by her exhortations brought to believe in Jesus Christ, and were afterwards crowned with martyrdom. Meanwhile Catharine was brought out of prison, and a wheel was set up garnished with many sharp knives cruelly to rend the virgin’s body. But at Catharine’s prayer the wheel was speedily broken; by which miracle many were converted to the faith of Christ. Maximin only grew more obstinate in wickedness and cruelty, and ordered Catharine to be beheaded. Offering her head bravely to the sword, she took her flight to heaven, adorned with the double crown of virginity and mrtyrdom, on the seventh of the Kalends of December. Her body was miraculously carried away by angels and buried on Mount Sinai in Arabia.
Sunday, November 24, 2024
Saturday, November 23, 2024
The Clarinet in Early America: Some Preliminary Findings
I retain for instance among my domestic servants a gardener... weaver... a cabinet maker... and a stone- cutter... to which I would add a vigneron. In a country where, like yours, music is cultivated and practised by every class of men, I suppose there might be found persons of those trades who could perform on the French horn, clarinet or hautboy and bassoon, so that one might have a band of two French horns, two clarinets and hautboys and a bassoon, without enlarging their domest[ic] expences. ...Without meaning to give you trouble, perhaps it mig[ht] be practicable for you in your ordinary intercourse with your pe[ople] to find out such men disposed to come to America. Sobriety and good nature would be desirable parts of their characters.
Friday, November 22, 2024
Aristotle's Metaphysics -- motion as an illustration of change
But there are two cases in which A comes strictly from or out of B, that in which B retains its substantial nature but develops, and that in which B disappears and its substratum takes on a new and opposite substantial nature. The second case is γένεσις proper; the first may be either change of quantity (αὔξησις), as when a boy becomes a man, or of quality (ἀλλοίωσις), as when an ignorant person becomes learned. But it is not coextensive with αὔξησις and ἀλλοίωσις : Aristotle is thinking only of those cases in which the change is development towards an end (τελείωσις) and cannot be reversed (I. 32).
https://archive.org/details/aristotlesmetaph0001aris/page/217/mode/1up
Thursday, November 21, 2024
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Putin Lowers Nuclear-Strike Threshold as Ukraine Launches Long-Range Missiles into Russia
Putin’s new nuclear doctrine proclaims that Russia can use nuclear weapons in response to an attack from a non-nuclear state with support from a nuclear state, a clear reference to U.S. support for Ukraine. The doctrine formalizes a policy Putin announced in September during a televised meeting with top officials.
Monday, November 18, 2024
Everything That Rises Must Converge
The title "Everything That Rises Must Converge" refers to (without endorsing) a work by the French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin titled the "Omega Point":[3] "Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge."
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Saturday, November 16, 2024
Misinformation
Their last tenuous grasp on classic liberalism collapsed in Democrats’ exuberant war against free speech, under the misleading banner of “misinformation.”
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/unconditional-saturday-november-16
Friday, November 15, 2024
Ingredients listed for Newman's Own Balsamic Vinaigrette
Canola oil, water, balsamic vinegar, distilled vinegar, sea salt, .
Less than 2% of: extra virgin olive oil, garlic, sugar, black pepper, onion puree (onion, vinegar, salt), red bell peppers*, oregano*, basil*, basil*, parsley*, marjoram*, xanthan gum, green onion*.
* dried
BC 007
Topline results of Phase 2 Long Covid trial do not show evidence of superior efficacy of BC 007 over placebo arm
Berlin, Germany, 13 November 2024Thursday, November 14, 2024
Capitol Rioter Yells in Court, Tells Prosecutors 'Drop All Charges' or Make 'Counteroffer'
Zach Alam, an accused Capitol rioter, is looking to represent himself in court and, working as his own attorney, made an offer to the court to drop the charges against him or have prosecutors "make me a counteroffer."
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Monday, November 11, 2024
18 Of 19 States Harris Won Appear To Share One Major Risk To Election Integrity
Of the 19 states won by Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential election, 18 of them don’t require voters to show photo identification to vote, according to a National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) review of laws in effect as of April 2024.
Sunday, November 10, 2024
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Friday, November 8, 2024
Thursday, November 7, 2024
Students Experience King Lear in NYC
Upon arrival on the Upper East Side, the group stopped by St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church to attend Mass. Dedicated in 1918, the church has been in the care of the Dominican Friars for more than a century. Its architectural beauty did not escape the attention of the students, who, after Mass, took some time to admire the many side altars and stained-glass windows, two of which featured the College’s patron — St. Thomas Aquinas — and Aristotle.
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Tom Holland (author)
Christianity
[edit]Although his father is an atheist, Holland was raised in the Christian church by his "devout Anglican" mother, and he said in 2013 that because of her example "I've always associated Anglicanism with goodness and decency and generosity of spirit and compassion, so I never had that visceral association of Christianity or institutional religion with repression or dogma or illiberalism."[78] Nonetheless, as an adult he disavowed belief in the existence of God, saying "I have seen no evidence that would satisfy me that anything supernatural exists. I have seen no proof for god."[78]
In 2016, he wrote an article titled "Why I Was Wrong About Christianity" for the New Statesman, in which he said that he had come to realise he was incorrect to have thought in the past that his own western values derived from the Greece and Rome of antiquity and owed nothing to Christianity:
On July 2, 2024, The Times published a letter to the editor, co-signed by Holland and numerous other Catholic and non-Catholic public figures, calling upon the Holy See to preserve what they describe as the "magnificent" cultural artifact of the Catholic Church's Traditional Latin Mass.[80]
