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  • Best-known among Ponce's prose works are a monograph on retirement, published in 1948, a literary study titled Diego José Abad (1954), the introduction to a compilation of sermons by Bishop Luis Altamirano (1955), and a pastoral monograph titled Tota Pulchra (1956).

    Priest, poet, educator: the multiple talents of Manuel Ponce (1913–1994) 2008

  • That same year a row broke out when one of her cousins, Claudia Pulchra, was charged with immorality, witchcraft, and conspiracy against the emperor.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • Best-known among Ponce's prose works are a monograph on retirement, published in 1948, a literary study titled Diego José Abad (1954), the introduction to a compilation of sermons by Bishop Luis Altamirano (1955), and a pastoral monograph titled Tota Pulchra (1956).

    Priest, poet, educator: the multiple talents of Manuel Ponce (1913–1994) 2008

  • Your beauty -- "Tota Pulchra," we sing today -- assures us that the victory of love is possible; what is more, that it is certain.

    Archive 2008-12-07 papabear 2008

  • Rusty film stars like Greta Garbo and Rudy Valentino, and pre-Rusty beauties like Claudia Pulchra of ancient Rome and Ono no Komachi of ancient Japan.

    Bogus to Bubbly Scott Westerfeld 2008

  • Rusty film stars like Greta Garbo and Rudy Valentino, and pre-Rusty beauties like Claudia Pulchra of ancient Rome and Ono no Komachi of ancient Japan.

    Bogus to Bubbly Scott Westerfeld 2008

  • Your beauty -- "Tota Pulchra," we sing today -- assures us that the victory of love is possible; what is more, that it is certain.

    Pontiff's Piazza di Spagna Address papabear 2008

  • Both extremes are naught, Pulchra cito adamatur, foeda facile concupiscit, the one is soon beloved, the other loves: one is hardly kept, because proud and arrogant, the other not worth keeping; what is to be done in this case?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Pulchra terra, pulchrum cœlum, sed pulcherrimus dominus Jesus

    Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

  • Pulchra terra, pulchrum cœlum, sed pulcherrimus dominus Jesus

    Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965

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