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The sisters travelled extensively in Europe. In 1896, Mary Guendaline married the middle-aged François Jean Louis, Marquis de Montiers-Mérinville in Paris. Bishop John Spalding of Peoria performed the ceremony. In 1904, the sisters broke with the Catholic Church, the Marquise stating that her "honest Protestant blood had asserted itself". [18]
Bully pulpit" is a turn of phrase. It may also refer to: Tales from the Bully Pulpit, a comic book; Bully Pulpit Games, a company;
Adam and Eve expelled from Eden, detail of the pulpit in the St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral, Brussels, 1699. Hendrik Frans Verbrugghen or Hendrik Frans Verbruggen [1] (30 April 1654 in Antwerp – 12 December 1724 in Antwerp) was a Flemish sculptor and draftsman, who is best known for his Baroque church furniture in various Belgian churches.
The Catholic Church had technically banned the practice of selling indulgences as long ago as 1567. As the Times points out, a monetary donation wouldn't go amiss toward earning an indulgence.
President Theodore Roosevelt delivering a speech. A "bully pulpit" is a conspicuous position that provides an opportunity to speak out and be listened to.This term was coined by United States President Theodore Roosevelt, who referred to his office as a "bully pulpit", by which he meant a terrific platform from which to advocate an agenda.
His face framed by the golden Oval Office curtains behind him, President Donald Trump stared straight into the camera aimed at the Resolute Desk. Trump, whose improbable election ripped up the ...
The pulpit of the Notre-Dame de Revel in Revel, Haute-Garonne, France Pulpit at Blenduk Church in Semarang, Indonesia, with large sounding board and cloth antependium "Two-decker" pulpit in an abandoned Welsh chapel, with reading desk below 1870 Gothic Revival oak pulpit, Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland Ambo, in the modern Catholic sense, in Austria 19th-century wooden pulpit in Canterbury ...
The Bully Pulpit is the seventh book by Doris Kearns Goodwin. She spent seven years researching the book. [2] Goodwin stated that initially she wished to write a history of the Progressive Era and Theodore Roosevelt, but determined Taft to be "far more sympathetic if flawed" than she first considered, which resulted in the book centering around the evolving relationship of Roosevelt and ...