The Roman Catholic natural-law tradition regards as self-evident that the primary objective purpose of the conjugal act is procreation and that the fostering of the mutual love of the spouses is the secondary and subjective end.

This is probably a confusion that entered oral tradition from Wace's Roman de Brut.

* Blessed Virgin Mary ( Roman Catholic ), called the New Ark of the Covenant by Christians of the Catholic tradition

Sources for events after this date are extremely scarce, but a tradition, reported as early as the mid-6th century by a British priest named Gildas, records that the British sent for help against the barbarians to Aetius, a Roman consul, probably in the late 440s.

The Catholic Encyclopedia ( 1909 ) called this confusion a " distortion of the true facts " and suggested that it arose because the " Liber Pontificalis ", which at this point may be registering a reliable tradition, says that this Felix built a church on the Via Aurelia, which is where the Roman martyr of an earlier date was buried.

The first references in the western historical tradition begin at Syracuse in 399 BC and these devices were widely employed by the Roman Legions in Republican times well before the Christian era.

The population of the city throughout the centuries maintained an oral tradition that had originally been Roman.

This may have been the Roman tradition — which Tertullian usually follows — and in Rome the epistle may have had its first readers.

There is a surviving tradition of Latin philology in Western culture connecting the Roman Empire with the Early Modern period.

The late Roman cavalry tradition and the mounted nobility of the Germanic invaders both contributed to the development of mediaeval knightly cavalry.

The Apostles ' Creed is widely used by most Christian denominations for both liturgical and catechetical purposes, most visibly by liturgical Churches of Western tradition, including the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, Lutheranism, the Anglican Communion, and Western Orthodoxy.

An example is John Milton's Paradise Lost, an " epic elaboration of the Judeo-Christian mythology " and also a " veritable encyclopedia of myths from the Greek and Roman tradition ".

Domitian's foreign policy was realistic, rejecting expansionist warfare and negotiating peace at a time when Roman military tradition dictated aggressive conquest.

The ancient Roman Catholic tradition overcame this idea with the doctrine of the " Two Swords " and so achieved, for the very first time, a balanced constitution for states.

Epigram is associated with ' point ' because the European epigram tradition takes the Latin poet Martial as its principal model ; he copied and adapted Greek models ( particularly the contemporary poets Lucillius and Nicarchus ) selectively and in the process redefined the genre, aligning it with the indigenous Roman tradition of ' satura ', hexameter satire, as practised by ( among others ) his contemporary Juvenal.

In the Roman tradition a large variety in the meaning and importance of the imperial form of monarchy developed: in intention it was always the highest office, but it could as well fall down to a redundant title for nobility that had never been near to the " Empire " they were supposed to be reigning.

The importance and meaning of coronation ceremonies and regalia also varied within the tradition: for instance Holy Roman Emperors could only be crowned emperor by the pope, which meant the coronation ceremony usually took place in Rome, often several years after these emperors had ascended to the throne ( as " king ") in their home country.

Of course, intrigue, murder and military force could also mingle in for appointing successors ; the Roman imperial tradition made no exception to other monarchical traditions in this respect.

The " Roman " component in the Bulgarian imperial title indicated both rulership over Greek speakers and the derivation of the imperial tradition from the Romans ( represented by the " Roman " Byzantines ).

The East Asian tradition is different from the Roman tradition, having arisen separately.

Because Galen's works were not translated into Latin in the ancient period, and because of the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, the study of Galen, along with the Greek medical tradition as a whole, went into decline in Western Europe during the Early Middle Ages, when very few Latin scholars could read Greek.

Though Lord Byron identified Pope as one of his chief influences ( believing his scathing satire of contemporary English literature English Bards and Scotch Reviewers to be a continuance of Pope's tradition ), William Wordsworth found Pope's style fundamentally too decadent a representation of the human condition.

The dramatist of the Restoration renounced to the tradition of satire, as recently embodied by Ben Jonson, and devoted themselves to comedy of manners, which uncritically accepted the social code of the upper class.

O ' Nolan was bilingual and his fiction clearly shows the mark of the native tradition, particularly in the imaginative quality of his storytelling and the biting edge of his satire in works such as An Béal Bocht.

O ' Nolan was bilingual and his fiction clearly shows the mark of the native tradition, particularly in the imaginative quality of his storytelling and the biting edge of his satire.

The Absolutely Absurd Party is a Canadian joke political party, which carries on the tradition of political satire.

It was thanks to Wedekind's success that the tradition of German satirical writing was established in the theatre, producing the cabaret-song satirists Kurt Tucholsky, Walter Mehring, Joachim Ringelnatz and Erich Kästner among others, who invigorated the culture of the Weimar Republic ; " all bitter social critics who used direct, stinging satire as the best means of attack and wrote a large part of their always intelligible light verse to be declaimed or sung.

The newspaper has a running tradition of publishing an April Fool's edition in which humorous and parody stories are run as an Onion-like satire.

Lawrence Watt-Evans defines a longstanding fantasy tradition where the characters of the city watch would " rush in and die, or run away ", but places Pratchett's presentation of Ankh-Morpork City Watch in a different mode which ranges from " parody " in early novels to " deeper satire " in the later works.

In the Jewish tradition Alexander was initially a figure of satire, representing the vain or covetous ruler who is ignorant of larger spiritual truths.

But it was in private poetic bouts with fellow poets that the satire tradition flourished.

EW places Glamorama within an emerging tradition of celebrity satire, noting " the glitterati are the satirical target du jour, what with Woody Allen's limp, oral-sex-filled film Celebrity, and Jay McInerney's clever novel Model Behavior " ( both 1998 ).

Later series such as Royal Canadian Air Farce, This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Rick Mercer Report have all drawn on the tradition of political satire established by Seven Days, and have been among Canadian television's most popular comedy series in recent years.

They provided political and social commentary and satire and are a good example of a bardic tradition, akin to that that in medieval Europe or, more recently, the role calypsos played in the West Indies.

The passage of Pseudo-Clement stands within a Western Christian tradition of satire against the variety of minor deities worshipped by classical pagans ; similar passages exist in The City of God by Saint Augustine of Hippo, and Tertullian's Ad Nationes.

It was during a stay in Milan that he came in touch with the rich local tradition of dialect poetry and satire, as modernized by Carlo Porta, whose witty vernacular sonnets provided him with a model for the poems in Roman dialect that were to make him, posthumously, famous.

Mavis Bramston grew out of the recent local theatrical tradition of topical satirical revue —- most notably the popular revues staged at Sydney's Phillip Street Theatre in the 1950s and 1960s -— but it was also strongly influenced by the British satire boom and especially by the contemporary British TV satirical comedy series That Was The Week That Was and Not Only ...

Future president Nicholas Sarkozy sent a letter to be read in court expressing his support for the ancient French tradition of satire.

In this it mirrors the music hall tradition of Dublin both pre-and post-independence and anticipates the later ( 1960s ) British satire on the First World War, the play Oh What a Lovely War, created by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in 1963.

Tom Swift Jr. is the central character in a series of 33 adventure novels for male adolescents, following in the tradition of the earlier Tom Swift (" Senior ") novels.

In Swift, the English tradition has its first writer of genius.

Lilliput and Lilliput House were frequently used by Jonathan Swift as a holiday home and place to write, local tradition states that Jonathan Swift was in a boat on the lake when he looked back at Lilliput and noticed how small the people looked at that distance, hence the inspiration for his most famous book Gulliver's Travels.

McCulloch's satirical letters have been described by Northrop Frye as " quiet, observant, deeply conservative in a human sense ..." McCulloch's satirical persona, the " conventional, old-fashioned, homespun " farmer, is part of a tradition that originates with Addison and Swift.

Back at work at Blandings Cosmetics, Jim Royle ( Clive Swift ), a shop steward, knowing the strong Labour tradition in the Hennessey family, asks Beryl to speak at a mass meeting calling for strike action, on Sunday ,-the same day Beryl has arranged to see Frank.

Aylett says he is in the tradition of " real satirists " such as Voltaire, Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain.