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St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Frederick, Maryland, part of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.Founded in 1763, after the repeal of the British penal laws, as the first Catholic church in Frederick County, the parish occupied two former buildings before the completion of the present Greek Revival church in 1837.
John Anthony Ciardi (/ ˈ tʃ ɑːr d i / CHAR-dee; Italian:; June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist.While primarily known as a poet and translator of Dante's Divine Comedy, he also wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, directed the Bread Loaf ...
The themes of poetry are necessarily hard to pin down, and what some see as a Christian theme or viewpoint may not be seen by others. A number of modern writers are widely considered to have Christian themes in much of their poetry, including G. K. Chesterton, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, and Elizabeth Jennings.
Tabb was born in Amelia County, Virginia, on March 22, 1845. [1] One of his brothers was William Barksdale Tabb, a lawyer and officer in the Confederate States Army. [2]A member of one of the state's oldest and wealthiest families, Tabb served on a blockade runner for the Confederacy during the Civil War, and spent eight months in a Union prison camp, where he formed a lifelong friendship with ...
John Montague (28 February 1929 − 10 December 2016) was an Irish poet. Born in the United States, he was raised in Ulster in the north of Ireland. He published a number of volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories and two volumes of memoir. He was one of the best-known Irish contemporary poets.
The Six-Cornered Snowflake and Other Poems. New Directions Publishing. 1990. ISBN 978-0-8112-1143-7. John Frederick Nims., selected for the New York Public Library's Ninety from the Nineties. The Kiss: A Jambalaya (1982) Selected poems. University of Chicago Press. 1982. ISBN 978-0-226-58118-7. Of Flesh and Bone (1967)
The Spiritual Canticle (Spanish: Cántico Espiritual) is one of the poetic works of the Spanish mystical poet Saint John of the Cross.. Saint John of the Cross, a Carmelite friar and priest during the Counter-Reformation, was arrested and jailed by the Calced Carmelites in 1577 at the Carmelite Monastery of Toledo because of his close association with Saint Teresa of Ávila in the Discalced ...
John of Damascus or John Damascene, born Yūḥana ibn Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn, [a] was an Assyrian Christian monk, priest, hymnographer, and apologist.He was born and raised in Damascus c. AD 675 or AD 676; the precise date and place of his death is not known, though tradition places it at his monastery, Mar Saba, near Jerusalem, on 4 December AD 749. [5]