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The image of the Man of Sorrows, also known as the Imago Pietatis, was rooted, like so much of the life of Christ, in the prophecies of the Old Testament.
The Man of Sorrows Motif Over Time James Gardner 2011
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Northhamptoniæ, _filius secundo genitus, hoc supremum Pietatis in
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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Pietatis as pictured by Botticelli -- a hillock of florins, with the kneeling forms of worthy suppliants and the cloud-borne founder crowned by angelic hands.
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When the increased need for loans threatened to place large numbers of the people at the mercy of the Jewish usurers, the Montes Pietatis were established, mostly by the Franciscans, from which money could be borrowed on payment of a sum sufficient to cover risks and the cost of maintenance.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Holzapfel, Die Anfänge der montes Pietatis (Munich, 1903);
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Observants performed most meritorious social work especially in Italy by the institution of montes pietatis (monti de Pieta), in the fiteenth century, conspicious in this work being Bl. Bernardine of
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Pietatis di Gubbio (Perugia, 1896); Vanlaer, Les Monts de Piété en
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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When the "Legatus Divinae Pietatis" is compared with the "Liber Specialis Gratiae" of St. Mechtilde, it is evident that Gertrude is the chief, if not the only, author of the latter book.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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On the one side of it was a color-process reproduction, very good of its kind Christ in Glory the Rex Tremendoe Majestatis and also the Fons Pietatis of the Dies Ira with tears in His Eyes and thorns on His Brows as He judged just judgment.
Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910
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Hoc qualecunque Pietatis monumentum Praeceptori optimo, Desideratissimo, Wiccamici sui P.C. In the frankness of his disposition he appears to have resembled his brother, but with more liveliness and more love of general society.
Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846
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