Athanasius
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Athanasius Kircher, a 17th-century scholar, wrote of a machine—a kind of “music-making ark”—that promised to furnish any user with a “complete acquaintance with composing.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Kazakh Bishop Athanasius Schneider, who has long opposed Francis‘ progressive bent, called the new policy a “great deception.”
From Washington Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
Eco’s passion for the literary canon is clear, but we hear more about his wanderings through his favorite oddities, such as Athanasius Kircher, a 17th-century Jesuit scholar who wrote sprawling and sometimes wrongheaded treatises.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
According to Athanasius, normal life was full of temptation, greed, and sin, and that the holiest life was thus one that rejected it completely in favor of prayer and meditation away from human company.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
They also accused St. Athanasius of murder and unchastity, both of which charges he most triumphantly repelled.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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