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Tandlerus and some authors make a doubt, whether love and hatred may be compelled by philters or characters; Cardan and Marbodius, by precious stones and amulets; astrologers by election of times, &c. as [4543] I shall elsewhere discuss.
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The letter of Marbodius is denied to be genuine by Mainferme and Natalis Alexander, and suspected by D. Beaugendre, who published the works of Marbodius at
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Littér.t. 10, p. 359, clearly shows this letter to have been written by Marbodius, who, in it, speaks of these rumors without giving credit to them, and with tenderness and charity exhorts Robert to reform his conduct if the reports were true; to dissipate them by justifying himself, if they were false.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Such scandalous reports excited the zeal of some good men, and they are mentioned in a letter ascribed to Marbodius, bishop of
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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See his life, written from the relation of his disciples soon after his death; and again by Marbodius, archdeacon of Angers, afterwards bishop of Rennes, both in Bollandus.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Marbodius was soon satisfied as to these calumnies, and was the saint's great protector, in 1101, in his missions in Brittany, particularly in his diocese of Rennes; whither he seems to have invited him.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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Bishop Marbodius calls woman a "pleasant evil, at once a honeycomb and a poison" and indicts the sex, [232] something on the order of Juvenal or Jonathan Swift, by citing the cases of Eve, the daughters of Lot, Delilah, Herodias,
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It is a narrative of a journey to hell undertaken by the monk Marbodius, of the order of St. Benedict, who professed a fervent admiration for the poet Virgil.
Penguin Island 1909
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One would not have thought either that Marbodius, or even Virgil, could have known the Etruscan tombs of Chiusi and Corneto, where, in fact, there are horrible and burlesque devils closely resembling those of Orcagna.
Penguin Island 1909
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Three centuries before the epoch in which our Marbodius lived the words -
Penguin Island 1909
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