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15 hours ago · In 1869, he opened the law school, which offered a two-year course of study, and in 1871 he began construction of Sacred Heart Church, today the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. Two years later, Auguste Lemonnier started a library in the Main Building, which had 10,000 volumes by 1879. The current Main Building, built after the great fire of 1879
15 hours ago · Etymology. The English meditation is derived from Old French meditacioun, in turn from Latin meditatio from a verb meditari, meaning "to think, contemplate, devise, ponder". In the Catholic tradition, the use of the term meditatio as part of a formal, stepwise process of meditation goes back to at least the 12th-century monk Guigo II, before which the Greek word theoria was used for the same ...
15 hours ago · The Syriac language ( / ˈsɪriæk / SIH-ree-ak; Classical Syriac: ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ, romanized: Leššānā Suryāyā ), [a] also known natively in its spoken form in early Syriac literature as Edessan ( Urhāyā ), Mesopotamian language ( Nahrāyā) and as Aramaic ( Aramāyā ), is an Eastern Middle Aramaic dialect. [4] [5] [6] Classical ...
