According to Day's autobiography, as told to A. E. Hotchner, the usually athletic and healthy Martin Melcher had an enlarged heart.

According to Martin Noth, a scholar of the Hebrew Bible, the narratives of Isaac date back to an older cultural stage than that of the West-Jordanian Jacob.

" According to Martin Noth, at the Southern Palestinian stage of the growth of the Pentateuch tradition, Isaac became established as one of the biblical patriarchs, but his traditions were receded in the favor of Abraham.

According to Martin Sixsmith, in a BBC documentary, " Beria spent his nights having teenagers abducted from the streets and brought here for him to rape.

It is reflected in Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel The Last Temptation of Christ, in José Saramago's The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Jesus Christ Superstar, Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, Monty Python's The Life Of Brian, Jean-Claude La Marre's Color of the Cross and Hal Hartley's The Book of Life.

According to Luther H. Martin, Roman Mithraism came to an end with the anti-pagan decrees of the Christian emperor Theodosius during the last decade of the 4th century.

According to Burton ( 2007 ) Martin authorized a crusade against Africa in 1418 and this coupled with a later bull ( 1441 ) sanctioned the Portuguese trade in African slaves.

According to the late 13th century chronicler Martin of Opava, Stephen VIII was described as being a German, who was elected pope due to the power and influence of his royal relative, the German king Otto I. Martin states that Otto ignored the will of the cardinals in imposing Stephen upon them, and because Stephen was hated for being a German, he was taken by supporters of Alberic II, who proceeded to maim and disfigure him to such an extent that Stephen was unable to appear in public again.

According to Clarence A. Martin, the BR were credited with 14, 000 acts of violence in the first ten years of the group's existence.

According to Bauckham, the reformers Martin Luther and John Calvin repudiated the idea that Christians are bound to obey the Mosaic law, including the fourth commandment of the Decalogue concerning Sabbath, although they followed Aquinas's concept of natural law.

According to Martin Gottfried, " Sondheim had set out to write traditional songs ...

According to the theory of the Deuteronomistic history proposed by Martin Noth and widely accepted, Deuteronomy was a product of the court of Josiah ( late 7th century ) before being used as the introduction to a comprehensive history of Israel written in the early part of the 6th century ; later still it was detached from the history and used to round off the Pentateuch.

According to Martin, " Wayne was so good that you could have a boy of your own who was a tremendous hockey player, and he'd get overlooked because of what the Gretzky kid was doing.

According to Martin Gardner, some of the Princeton University students also referred to the game as John ( according to some sources this was because they played the game using the mosaic of the bathroom floor ).

According to Cooney, the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, Gibbon called her to say " if you still want me, I'm yours.

According to Ernst Röhm, Martin Faust and Theodor Casella, both members of the armed militia organisation Reichskriegsflagge, were shot down accidentally in a burst of machine gun fire during the occupation of the War Ministry as the result of a misunderstanding with II / Inf. Regt 19.

According to Martin Luther, justification by faith alone is the article on which the church stands or falls.

According to Martin Gardner, at school Diaconis supported himself by playing poker on ships between New York and South America.

According to Dr. Martin Hollý, director of the Psychiatric Hospital Bohnice in Prague, none of the nearly 100 sex offenders who had been physically castrated had committed further offenses.

According to author and journalist Martin Dillon, Wright had been inspired by the violent deaths of UVF men Harris Boyle and Wesley Somerville, both of whom were blown up after planting a bomb on board The Miami Showband's minibus.

According to a post made on the 25 May 2010 on the band's Myspace page, Barry, Diani and Fiocco are recording new material with new drummer Martin Davies.

According to Martin Esslin, Absurdism is " the inevitable devaluation of ideals, purity, and purpose " Absurdist drama asks its viewer to " draw his own conclusions, make his own errors ".

According to Martin, Kingsley Amis famously showed no interest in his son's work.

According to the Jesuit missionary Martin Dobrizhoffer, they practiced cannibalism at one point, perhaps as a funerary ritual, but later disposed of the dead in large jars placed inverted on the ground.

According to Athanasius, the devil fought St. Anthony by afflicting him with boredom, laziness, and the phantoms of women, which he overcame by the power of prayer, providing a theme for Christian art.

According to the later St. Jerome, celibacy is a moral virtue, consisting of not living in the flesh but outside the flesh ( vivere in carne praeter carnem ).

According to Jocelin of Brakelond, in 1198 during a fire at the abbey of St Edmundsbury ( now Bury St Edmunds ), the monks ' ran to the clock ' to fetch water, indicating that their water clock had a reservoir large enough to help extinguish the occasional fire.

According to Every, one example may be " the myth of St. George " and other stories about saints battling dragons, which were " modelled no doubt in many cases on older representations of the creator and preserver of the world in combat with chaos ".

According to Rao, " St. Francis Xavier made it a point not only to convert the people but also destroy the idols and ancient places of worship.

According to Alcuin's Life of St. Willebrord, the saint visited an island between Frisia and Denmark that was sacred to Fosite and was called Fositesland after the god worshipped there.

According to the 11th century Byzantine historian Georgios Kedrenos an uncial manuscript of Matthew's Gospel, believed to be that found by Anthemios, was then still preserved in the Chapel of St Stephen in the imperial palace.

According to Matthew Paris, the 13th century chronicler of St Albans Abbey, Abbot Ulsinus ( Wulsin ) founded three churches in 948, reputedly to tend to the physical and spiritual needs of the growing number of pilgrims to Alban's shrine: St Peter's, St Stephen's and St Michael's.

According to the entries in Lampe's A Patristic Greek Lexicon, the basic terms hesychia and hesychazo appear as early as the 4th Century in such Fathers as St John Chrysostom and the Cappadocians.

According to Kourouniotes, however, the southern peak has never been called Diaforti, only " Ayios Ilias " after the chapel of St. Elijah below the summit.

According to Ağca, the plan was for him and the back-up gunman Oral Çelik to open fire in St. Peter's Square and escape to the Bulgarian embassy under the cover of the panic generated by a small explosion.

According to Condivi, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de ' Medici, for whom Michelangelo had sculpted St. John the Baptist, asked that Michelangelo " fix it so that it looked as if it had been buried " so he could " send it to Rome ... pass off as an ancient work and ... sell it much better.

According to a letter published in the Rye and Battle Observer, Milligan's headstone was removed from St Thomas's churchyard following the burial of his wife Shelagh.

According to tradition, Pope St. Pontian died on Tavolara following his abdication and exile in 235.

According to Sr Marie of St Peter, in her visions Jesus told her that He desired devotion to His Holy Face in reparation for sacrilege and blasphemy.

Notable films from this period include: La Dolce Vita, 8½ ; La Notte ; L ' Eclisse, The Red Desert ; Blowup ; Satyricon ; Accattone ; The Gospel According to St. Matthew ; Theorem ; Winter Light ; The Silence ; Persona ; Shame ; A Passion ; Au Hasard Balthazar ; Mouchette ; Last Year at Marienbad ; Chronique d ' un été ; Titicut Follies ; High School ; Salesman ; La jetée ; Warrendale ; Knife in the Water ; Repulsion ; The Saragossa Manuscript ; El Topo ; A Hard Day's Night ; and the cinema verite Dont Look Back.

According to an ancient legend, the ground on which Finglas stands had been sanctified by St. Patrick, who is said to have uttered from it a prophecy that a great town would arise at the ford of hurdles in the vale beneath.

According to tradition, Christian monasticism began in Egypt with St. Anthony.

According to legend, St Anicetus suffered martyrdom during the reign of the Roman Co-Emperor Lucius Verus, but there are no historical grounds for this account.

According to the St. James's Gazette, " The first act was well received by the audience.

" According to the St. James's Gazette, " gradually the enthusiasm faded away and the interest of the story began to flag, until at last the plot seemed within an ace of collapsing altogether.