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  • It is not without sufficient reason therefore, that this excellent ecclesiastic is always called Frate Giovanni Angelico.

    Fra Angelico J. B. Supino 1869

  • Salsola soda, for example – “Barba di Frate” – offered by both Seeds of Italy and Real Seeds.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Jean 2009

  • May the Mother of God, whose appearance to Alphonse Ratisbonne in the Church of Sant'Andrea delle Frate in Rome we remember today, obtain from the Lord the abundance of the Holy Spirit for all disciples in such a way that we can arrive at perfect unity and in this way offer the witness of faith and life that the world urgently needs.

    Archive 2008-01-20 papabear 2008

  • The best part was Ira Frate calling the whole lot of contestants a bunch of prison yard inmantes.

    jfloydking Diary Entry jfloydking 2007

  • Frate was really on the look-out for a place where no other dog was kept, and where he might have it all his own way.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

  • Frate questioned him eagerly, asking why he had chosen to write the poem in Italian since the vulgar tongue seemed to clothe such a wonderful theme unbecomingly.

    Heroes of Modern Europe Alice Birkhead

  • With him Frate remained for about six weeks, by which time, tiring of the _Cacciatore's_ rough handling, he had the temerity, two days before our departure, to present himself again at our door.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

  • From "Laude di Frate Jacopone da Todi" (Florence, 1490)

    Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

  • Stand forth, ungrateful _Frate_, while, for the reader's caution, and your own misconduct, we rehearse your history.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

  • We met Frate at the end of the fever season upon the unhealthy heights of Otricoli; a poor lean beast, with a penetrating gray eye, rough brown coat, a tail with no grace in its rigid half curl, and an untidy grizzly white beard.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

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