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.

* 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 ".

Its earliest known mention was by Isho ' dad of Merv, a ninth-century Syrian church father, in his biblical commentary concerning the Gospel of Matthew.

Though he credits a deep spiritual core for his work, Stookey " dispelled reports that he was born a Buddhist, saying his mother was a Roman Catholic and his dad was an ex-Mormon " and recalling the family's " eclectic attendance at church.

In the Season 3 episode, " Choir Trouble ", Steve says that his dad questioned him for going to church with the Winslows and becoming a born-again Christian, implying that his parents are atheists.

* Chuck, a pastor like his dad, runs Dad's church.

Afterwards, the boys take the cross and put it up outside the church, with Cartman still attached, so that he will die and get a " res-erection " to give to Kyle's dad.

When I was 18, my dad was pastoring a church in Ottawa, and I was feeling not too spiritual.

His song " Family Band ," on the American Gothic album, " has often been mistaken for a parody, but the story of singing hymns in church on a Sunday evening, ' when my dad played bass, my mom played the drums, and I played piano, and Jesus sang the song ,'" was autobiographical.

Dietary restrictions are not used by the highly urban Brazilian ayahuasca church União do Vegetal, suggesting the risk is much lower than perceived, and probably non-existent.

The church originally had a central tower and ( probably ) a spire.

The Universalists almost disappeared in Canada, outside of a small rural church in southwest Ontario, and were probably saved in the other two surviving locations by influx of Canadian Unitarians.

Paul, who is in prison ( probably in either Rome or Ephesus ), writes to a fellow Christian named Philemon and two of his associates: a woman named Apphia, sometimes assumed to be his wife, and a fellow worker named Archippus, who is assumed by some to have been Philemon's son and who also appears to have had special standing in the small church that met in Philemon's house ( see Colossians 4: 17 ).

Titus and a brother whose name is not given were probably the bearers of the letter to the church at Corinth ( 2 Corinthians 2: 13 ; 8: 6, 16 – 18 ).

The Gospel was probably shaped in part by increasing tensions between synagogue and church, or between those who believed Jesus was the Messiah and those who did not.

Before the apparition of the first gospel, the gospel of Mark which was probably written around the years 65 – 70, Paul the Apostle used the term gospel when he reminded the people of the church at Corinth " of the gospel I preached to you " ( 1 Corinthians 15. 1 ).

The language was in decline by the mid-6th century, due in part to the military defeat of the Goths at the hands of the Franks, the elimination of the Goths in Italy, and geographic isolation ( in Spain the Gothic language lost its last and probably already declining function as a church language when the Visigoths converted to Catholicism in 589 ).

The episcopal church built in London was probably founded by Æthelberht, rather than Sæberht.

It is viewed as a product of the agenda of Liber Pontificalis — this section of the book was probably written in the late fifth century — to show an ancient pattern of the earliest bishops of Rome ruling the church by papal decree.

The first church described in the city is a small building that was probably originally a small prayer house.

After his death a monastery ( Lanwethinoc, the church of Wethinoc an earlier holy man ) was established here which was of great importance until the town was raided by the Vikings in 981 ( the Vikings laid waste " Petroces stow " ( probably Padstow ) according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ).

There were probably traders, slavers, pirates and settlers unconnected with the church as well.

The outbreak led to the death of 102 " Blacks " ( probably under-reported in church records ), and 58 " whites " in the two months to May.

South of Hayling Island in the Solent is a deposit of stones, which scuba divers found to be the remains of a stone building, probably a church.

Vasco da Gama was born in either 1460 or 1469 in Sines, on the southwest coast of Portugal, probably in a house near the church of Nossa Senhora das Salas.

* The Faradda di li candareri ( The Descent of the Candelieri ): it's a devotional procession, in which enormous wooden candles are carried by members of the city guilds from the town centre to the church of Santa Maria of Betlem, in commemoration of the end of the plague in 1582, but it probably has older origins, from a cultural tradition from Pisa that as early as in the second half of the 13th century was practiced in some parts of Sardinia.

Of the thirty-seven Greek churches, the most important are the city's cathedral, the church dedicated to Our Lady of the Cave ( η Παναγία Σπηλιώτισσα ( hē Panagia Spēliōtissa )); Saint Spyridon church, wherein lies the preserved body of the patron saint of the island ; and finally the suburban church of St Jason and St Sosipater ( Αγιοι Ιάσων και Σωσίπατρος ), reputedly the oldest in the island, and named after the two saints probably the first to preach Christianity to the Corfiots.

Edgar had been a strong ruler who had forced monastic reforms on a probably unwilling church and nobility, aided by the leading clerics of the day, Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, Oswald of Worcester, Archbishop of York, and Bishop Æthelwold of Winchester.

* Santa Sofia is probably Padova's most ancient church.

The church, with a single nave, has traces of the ancient frescoes ( 13th century ), which probably covered all the walls.

Its assets were: The Bishop Odo of Bayeux held the monastery ( the site of the Cathedral ), the ' tide-way ' - which still exists as St Mary Overy dock ; the King owned the ' church ' ( probably St Olave's ) and its ' tidal stream ' ( St Olave's Dock ); the dues of the ' waterway ' or mooring place were shared between the ' King ' and Earl Godwin ; the King also had the ' toll ' of the strand ; and the ' men of Southwark ' had the right to a ' haw and its toll '.