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  • The Mendicant was a well respected part of daily life; their wisdom was often sought, asked and answered for a loaf of bread or a few alms.

    Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 2 2007

  • When she was in a neighborhood where there was a Convent of Mendicant Friars, she told me to remind her of the day when the children of the poor received the Eucharist, so that she might receive it with them; and this she did often: when she confessed herself she wept.

    The Holiness of the Maid elena maria vidal 2009

  • When she was in a neighborhood where there was a Convent of Mendicant Friars, she told me to remind her of the day when the children of the poor received the Eucharist, so that she might receive it with them; and this she did often: when she confessed herself she wept.

    Archive 2009-05-01 elena maria vidal 2009

  • It was through the ingrained, but not enforced it must be noted, social welfare structures of his time that allowed him to enter on the path of a Mendicant, or holy man who was wholly dependant on others for his food and clothing.

    Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 8 2007

  • The traditional social welfare system that enabled a Mendicant to survive is still present in many parts of the Asian continent.

    Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 8 2007

  • Siddhartha right then resolved go to Rajagaha, a large city in a neighbouring kingdom and once there, to live as a Mendicant.

    Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 2 2007

  • And then they flew right back again to confirm, if only in the sounds of horses hooves and railed wooden wheels, that great and esteemed Prince Siddhartha had indeed renounced the material world, and walked the open streets as a Mendicant.

    Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 2 2007

  • Mendicant Odysseus, the Laconian Women, the Fall of Ilium, the

    Poetics 2002

  • I believe that he is an heretic; the devil take me, if I do not! he doth so villainously rail at the Mendicant Friars and Jacobins, who are the two hemispheres of the Christian world; by whose gyronomonic circumbilvaginations, as by two celivagous filopendulums, all the autonomatic metagrobolism of the Romish

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Mendicant Odysseus, the Laconian Women, the Fall of Ilium, the

    Poetics 2002

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