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
He takes us on a hunt for invisible dragons with the Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher and to a performance of “The Tempest” starring an aging William Shakespeare who forgets his lines.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020
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
Sergius, duke of the Neapolitans, continued to favour the Saracens, notwithstanding the anathemas of Rome, and in despite of the remonstrances of his brother Athanasius, bishop of Naples.
From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou
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