Carmelites

participated in, but later felt compelled to oppose the atrocities committed against the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists. The Spanish enslaved many of the Natives and forced them to work in the mines of Potosí and Huancavelica. Spanish Carmelite monk Antonio Vazquez describes the volume and value of silver mining at the expense of the indigenous people and their harsh labor conditions through the mita system. De las Casas also witnessed the torture and killing of these people and,…

Everyday he would have the beggars eat from his table and he would eat there leftovers.He also built many houses and hospitals for the poor. He also supported many religious organizations such as the Augustine and Carmelite friars. Louis was a patron of the Secular Franciscan Order. As a beloved saint, Louis was the only king of France to be canonized and his life has had a lasting effect on Christians. There are many places around the world that are named after him…

There have been numerous quintessential examples of wicked downfalls throughout the world. A famous example would be when Moses led the people out of slavery in Egypt and because of that it caused the emperor to go mad and because of his madness, that is what killed him and his empire. But the French Revolution is one of the most devastating attacks against the Roman Catholic Church. It cost the lives of some many great people at the time. “God writes straight with crooked lines” is a perfect…

Take for example, the letter she conducts to Abelard, requesting and at the same time criticizing the Benedictine rule. According to scholar Karma Lochrie, this letter has undergone a general minimization by scholars in the past, because it was the first letter which broke away from the previously mentioned first depiction of Heloise, in which “…she seems to abandon her earlier protestations of desire for Abelard and requests, instead, a history of female monasteries and a rule appropriate for…

While the Catholic Reformation technically started before the Protestant Reformation, the onset of Protestantism gave it a new character. Before, the church was reforming due to inner necessities, but now the church had actual issues to respond to from the Protestants (Gonzalez, Vol. 2, pg. 138). The three types of the reformation were spiritual, administrative, and doctrinal. The spiritual type included the developmentive new orders. There were the Capuchin Franciscan monastics. They were…

God’s Cross-Stitch Everyone has thought about the existence of God in one way or another. Whether it is at one’s darkest moments, or on a daily basis, God’s presence is often questioned and called upon. Scientific experiments have been performed to test whether this desire for God is truly human nature, but there have been no conclusive findings. On a philosophical level, this has been debated for centuries; particularly between theists and atheists. “The desire for God is written on the human…

Do you Believe in Werewolves? Well, the people of 1600s Bamberg, Germany did. The Werewolf of Bamberg: A Hangman’s Daughter Tale is the fifth of the six, soon to be seven, books of the novel series A Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Potzsch. Potzsch gets his inspiration for the series from the history of his ancestors on his mother’s side. He uses one of his family’s four generations of executioners, Jakob Kuisls, and his family as the main characters. Each book follows parts of Magdalena Kuisls’,…

Saint Josemaria Escriva de balaguer was born in Barbastro spain, on january 9 1902. He was the second of six children born in his devout catholic family. He had a firm standing in the catholic beliefs as well as virtues he loved receiving communion and going to confession often. He also had a trusting resource to prayer and was devoted to our lady. He grew up as a fun loving and straightforward child. He was good at school and very intelligent. He had great love for his mother and a close…

insult] to God..." (Doc 7). This has no reliability whatsoever because it is his views on women, not the views of many others. Another very renowned religious leader was Teresa of Avila who was the Spanish st. and the founder of women 's reform in the Carmelites and her point of view in Riding the way of perfection, was basically that men and women are equal and her views of women are very similar to Christine de Pisan which was that women could do anything that men could do therefore the…

religious order. Religious Orders at the time benefitted the church in so many ways. These orders put their time into helping the sick and needy in their local communities. Some of these orders include, Capuchins, Ursulines, Theatines, Discalced, Carmelites, Barnabites, and the Jesuits(Important religious orders and the Co...). The Theatines were an order made up of devout priest who commenced to check the spread of heresy and subsidized to the regeneration of the clergy. The Ursulines…