Middle Eastern Fables Just as European authors found inspiration in the fables of Aesop, middle Eastern authors found inspiration in the fables of Bidpai. You may have noticed when you were reading the Indian fables, that the fables were stories within other stories. The fables of Bidpai, translated into Persian and retitled Kalīla wa-Dimna (KalilaContinue reading “Progymnasmata for the High School Student – Year One, Week Four”
Monthly Archives: June 2023
Cecilia Beaux, Portrait of Cardinal Mercier (1919)
The final painting of today’s Artle – sent me on a brief quest to find out if the artist, Cecilia Beaux, was Catholic. Alas, nothing to be found with a quick search; only that the next year she painted anti-Catholic George Clemenceau (the first painting in today’s Artle). But her painting of Admiral Sir DavidContinue reading “Cecilia Beaux, Portrait of Cardinal Mercier (1919)”
Catholic Scientists / Catholicism & Science
Society of Catholic Scientists Twelve Lectures on the Connexion between Science and Revealed Religion by Nicholas Patrick Wiseman (1837). What Catholics Have Done for Science with Sketches of the Great Catholic Scientists by Martin S. Brennan (1887). Catholic Scientists and Catholic Science by J. A. Zahm (1893). Catholic Churchmen in Science: Sketches of the Lives ofContinue reading “Catholic Scientists / Catholicism & Science”
Nihil sub sole novum 