Far away, standing before a curtained window in the study room, was his father, hands tucked under his coattails, and staring into the dark church.

Because of the recent death of the bride's father, Frederick B. Hamm, the marriage of Miss Terry Hamm to John Bruce Parichy will be a small one at noon tomorrow in St. Bernadine's church, Forest Park.

A father and son dinner sponsored by the Men's Club will be held at 6:15 p.m. Monday and the annual church picnic at 4 p.m. next Saturday.

Perhaps no church father saw this concurrence of the unique and the universal as clearly, or formulated it as precisely, as Irenaeus.

Her father had no private income and the parsonage would revert to the church on his death.

In Sir Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian, for example, the heroine, Jeanie Deans, a Scottish Presbyterian, writes to her father about the church situation she has found in England ( bold added ):

The church would be given autonomy and to Henry V would be restored large parts of his empire that his father had lost.

church father Isho ' dad of Merv ( probably based on the work of Theodore of Mopsuestia ), which J. R. Harris translated back into Gr. in Exp Expositor " 7 ( 1907 ), p 336.

* Jerome ( 340 – 420 ), Christian scholar and church father, whose full name was Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus

His father was a gardener, and he himself became first connected with the church in the humble position of a bellringer and verger in the Duomo of Piacenza ; he was twenty-one when the judge Ignazio Gardini, of Ravenna, was banished, and he followed Gardini to Ravenna where he met the vice-legate Giorgio Barni, who was made bishop of Piacenza in 1688 and appointed Alberoni chamberlain of his household.

However, Heinrich had to transfer to the Realschule ( vocational school ) after his father was accused of embezzling church funds and had to leave that institution in 1836 when his father was no longer able to pay for it.

He was an early church father and apologist, and his writings were formative in the early development of Christian theology.

Booth's mother was Episcopalian and his father was described as a free spirit, preferring a Sunday walk along the Baltimore waterfront with his children to attending church.

When the parents took James to church to be baptized, the father Samuel refused to declare his belief in Christianity, and the minister refused to baptize the child.

Beria's mother, Marta Ivanovna, was a deeply religious, church-going woman ( she spent so much time in church that she died there ); she was previously married and widowed before marrying Beria's father, Pavel Khukhaevich Beria, a landowner from Abkhazia, Georgia.

Philip persuaded Parliament to repeal the Protestant religious laws passed by Mary's father, thus returning the English church to Roman jurisdiction.

His father was primarily a farmer though he was also deacon of the local Congregational church, captain of the town's militia, and a founder of a local book society — a precursor to the public library.

John Chrysostom, a church father, writes that Noah ’ s behaviour is defensible: as the first human to taste wine, he would not know its aftereffects: “ Through ignorance and inexperience of the proper amount to drink, fell into a drunken stupor ”.

Former collegiate church of St. Servatius in Quedlinburg, founded in 936 by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, at the request of his mother Matilda of Ringelheim | Queen Matilda, in honour of her late husband, Otto's father, King Henry the Fowler, and as his memorial

I choose John ... a name sweet to us because it is the name of our father, dear to me because it is the name of the humble parish church where I was baptized, the solemn name of numberless cathedrals scattered throughout the world, including our own basilica John Lateran.

He was buried in his father ’ s tomb in the Florentine church of Santo Spirito.

However, it was highly unusual that the eldest son of a noble house would be destined for a career in the church, instead of inheriting his father ’ s title.

The church's textbook, the Divine Principle does not include the teaching that Zacharias was the father of Jesus, however according to Ruth Tucker some members of the church hold that belief based on the work of Leslie Weatherhead.

He should "( 1 ) participate in sports activities, ( 2 ) avoid activities considered of interest to homosexuals, such art museums, opera, symphonies, ( 3 ) avoid women unless it is for romantic contact, ( 4 ) increase time spent with heterosexual men in order to learn to mimic heterosexual male ways of walking, talking, and interacting with other heterosexual men, ( 5 ) Attend church and join a men ’ s church group, ( 6 ) attend reparative therapy group to discuss progress, or slips back into homosexuality, ( 7 ) become more assertive with women through flirting and dating, ( 8 ) begin heterosexual dating, ( 9 ) engage in heterosexual intercourse, ( 10 ) enter into heterosexual marriage, and ( 11 ) father children ".

The earliest writings of the Apostolic Fathers, the Didache and the First Epistle of Clement for example, show the church used two terms for local church offices — presbyters ( seen by many as an interchangeable term with episcopos or overseer ) and deacon.

In the primitive church, books afterwards excluded from the canon were often read, e. g. the letters of Clement of Rome and the Shepherd of Hermas.

Clement, a 1st-century bishop of Rome, refers to the leaders of the Corinthian church in his epistle to Corinthians as bishops and presbyters interchangeably.

To Pope Clement X we owe the two beautiful fountains which adorn the Piazza of St. Peter's church near the tribune, where a monument has been erected to his memory.

This measure, to late 19th-century Catholics, had covered Clement XIV's memory with infamy in his church, and was also quite controversial, with the Catholic Encyclopedia (?

His ashes had been removed to the Church of Saint Sylvester in the Campus Martius and were discovered on 17 November 1595 when Pope Clement VIII rebuilt that church.

For this is the manner in which the apostolic churches transmit their registers: as the church of Smyrna, which records that Polycarp was placed therein by John ; as also the church of Rome, which makes Clement to have been ordained in like manner by Peter.

In this situation of dependency on the powerful neighbors in France, three principles characterized the politics by Clement V: the suppression of the heretic movements ( such as the Cathars in southern France ); the reorganization of the internal administration of the church ; and the preservation of an untainted image of the church as the sole instrument of God's will on earth.

Confirming the papacy in the possession of wide territories, he promised to annul the acts of Louis against Clement, to take no part in Italian affairs, and to defend and protect the church.

The body was eventually buried in a church in the City of Westminster, which was fittingly named St. Clement Danes.

According to Tertullian, Clement was consecrated by Saint Peter, and he is known to have been a leading member of the church in Rome in the late 1st century.

Clement's only genuine extant writing is his letter to the church at Corinth ( 1 Clement ), in response to a dispute in which certain presbyters of the Corinthian church had been deposed.

In the legendary Clementine Literature, Clement is the intermediary through whom the apostles teach the church.

Clement is known for his epistle to the church in Corinth ( c. 96 ), in which he asserts the apostolic authority of the bishops / presbyters as rulers of the church.

Clement calls for repentance and reinstatement of those who have been deposed, in line with maintenance of order and obedience to church authority, since the apostles established the ministry of " bishops and deacons ".

St. Clement is the only Roman Pope to have St. Clement's Church in Moscow | a Russian Orthodox church dedicated in his name

Through a letter dated 1592-03-28, Pope Clement XIII solicited the setting up of the Jesuit College and its church.

The earliest writings of the Apostolic Fathers, the Didache and the First Epistle of Clement for example, show the church used two terms for local church offices — presbyters ( seen by many as an interchangeable term with episcopos or overseer ) and deacon.

Greek mysticism influenced many early church theologians such as Clement of Alexandria and Origen.