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He became a deacon at Constantinople, attained a high reputation as a scholar, and became the tutor of Constantine Ducas, son of the Emperor Michael VII, for whom he wrote The Education of Princes.
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At first a gnostic Valentinian and Marcionist, Ambrose, through Origen's teaching, eventually rejected this theology and became Origen's constant companion, and was ordained deacon.
After Luther's death, Alberus was for a time a deacon in Wittenberg ; he became involved, however, in the political conflicts of the time, and was in Magdeburg in 1550-1551, while that town was besieged by Maurice of Saxony.
He became a monk of Monte Cassino, was taken to Rome by Pope Urban II, and made papal subdeacon ( August 1088 ) and cardinal deacon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin ( probably on 23 September 1088 ).
Christianity first came to Tuvalu in 1861 when Elekana, a Christian deacon from Manihiki in the Cook Islands became caught in a storm and drifted for 8 weeks before landing at Nukulaelae.
Before becoming a Roman deacon, Hormisdas was married, and his son became pope under the name of Silverius.
In 1379, having received ordination as a deacon, he became a missionary preacher throughout the diocese of Utrecht.
On March 19 Merton became a deacon in the Order, and on May 26 ( Ascension Thursday ) he was ordained a priest, saying his first Mass the following day.
It takes its name from the deacon Saint Callixtus, proposed by Pope Zephyrinus in the administration of the same cemetery-on his accession as pope, he enlarged the complex, that quite soon became the official one for the Roman Church.
He became a deacon about 1150, and finally became a parish priest in 1156 at Bosau on Großer Plöner See.
In October 1790, he was ordained a deacon at Ely, and became a priest in 1792 ; in the same year he became a Fellow at Peterhouse, during which he spent time as both as college moderator and as proctor.
Anatoly Levitin ( 1915 – 1991 ) was a former Renovationist deacon and a friend of Vvedensky ; in 1970s he became a well-known Soviet human rights activist.
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he became Otto Klemperer's personal assistant at the Cologne Opera, and a year later was promoted to the position of regular conductor.
It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.
The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.
I never had the courage to look at them, when my projected volume became hopeless, fearing they were poor, until now when I was obliged to do so.
It seemed to her, as it seemed each night, that the gloom drew itself in and became densest at the table's empty chairs, giving her the frequent illusion that she dined with shadows.
At the age of 17 he became an apprentice machinist at the shop of Walcott & Harris in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and following two or three other jobs in quick succession after graduation, he went into business for himself in 1831, making lathes and small tools.
In 1806 his ambition was realized and he became professor of physics at the Copenhagen University, though not realizing full professorship ( ordinarius ) until 1817.
Serum potassium at this time was 3.8 mEq. per liter, and the hemoglobin was 13.9 gm. By Dec. 1, 1958, the weakness in the pelvic and quadriceps muscle groups was appreciably worse, and it became difficult for the patient to rise unaided from a sitting or reclining position.
In any event, the extraordinary result of this injury was that he became `` psychically blind '', while at the same time, apparently, the sense of touch remained essentially intact.
This meant, concretely, that the patient could not read at all without making writing-like movements of the head or body, became easily confused by `` hasher marks '' inserted between hand-written words and thus confused the mark for one of the letters, and could recognize a simple straight line or a curved one only by tracing it.
Men, trees, automobiles, houses, and so on -- objects continually confronted in everyday life -- had each its characteristic blot-appearance and became easily recognizable, at the very beginning of tracing, by an inference as to what each was.
And the authors give numerous instances of calculated guessing on the patient's part to show how large a role it played in his process of readapting himself and how proficient he became at it.
As the material at the command of the potters grew and the volume of their production increased, the local variations within a common style became more evident.
Through 1911 and 1912, as the Cubist facet-plane's tendency to adhere to the literal surface became harder and harder to deny, the task of keeping the surface at arm's length fell all the more to eye-undeceiving contrivances.
When her brother Winslow became a student at Brown University in 1874, she wrote him about a course in history he was taking under Professor Diman: `` What is Prof. Diman's definition of civilization, and take the world through, is its progress ever onward, or does it retrograde at times??
When cattle became more valuable, ranch owners frowned upon this practice and it was discontinued, at least when the boss was 'round.
On the other hand, some unwed mothers had had so much work and responsibility imposed on them at an early age, and had thus had so little freedom or opportunity to develop autonomy and initiative, that their work and responsibilities became dull and unrewarding burdens -- to be escaped and rebelled against through fun and experimentation with forbidden sexual behavior.
But after that 12 at Los Angeles he became one of the boys, a bigger hero than he ever had been before.
To the German pilot in the bomber the rocket became a faint black speck, hurtling through the sky at the then incredible speed of 420 m.p.h..
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