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  • The buildings on the east side were unroofed; the old Xenodochium, and the grand refectory, were full of hay; and the entrance-hall and monks 'parlour were stable for cattle.

    Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various

  • Ptochium for the poor who were unable to work; the Gerontochium for the aged; the Xenodochium for poor or infirm pilgrims.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • [60] The Xenodochium, which was originally a stranger's lodging-house.

    Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

  • The Governors of the Milanese Xenodochium were the patrons of the Plat endowment which Cardan afterwards enjoyed.

    Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

  • In the _Norma Vitæ Consarcinata_ [246] he relates how in April 1576 there were two inmates of the Xenodochium at Rome, Troilus and Dominicus.

    Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

  • The monks, who had gathered outside the Xenodochium, glanced with scowling suspicion at the party, who could not recover the good spirits with which they had begun the day till they were fairly out of the narrow, gloomy alleys, reeking with tar and salt fish, that adjoined the harbor, and where they had to push their way through a dense throng.

    Serapis — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867

  • Cynegius, the two brothers and the rest, all safe and sound; and, as we had lost everything we possessed, Marcus gave us a certificate which procured our admission into his mother's Xenodochium.

    Serapis — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867

  • There were none of the frenzied monks who had terrified her in the Xenodochium and in the streets; on this day of tumult and anxiety they are devoting all their small strength and great enthusiasm to the service of the Church militant.

    Serapis — Volume 04 Georg Ebers 1867

  • How glad she was that she still had the four drachmae which she had coaxed out of Karnis in the Xenodochium that evening; she could buy whatever she liked for her lover.

    Serapis — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867

  • Herse went back to the Xenodochium with a lighter heart; her son also returned to the city to replace a number of necessaries that had been lost on board ship, and Karnis, rejoicing to be out of the monk-haunted asylum had remained in the men's room in the house of his new patron, enjoying the good things which abounded there.

    Serapis — Volume 01 Georg Ebers 1867

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