The Life of St. Dominic And a Sketch of the Dominican Order
The Life of St. Dominic And a Sketch of the Dominican Order
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Sixtus to the nuns of the Trastevere. It was attached to the palace of the Savelli, of which family Honorius was a member ; and we are told that the change of residence was particularly welcome to the friars, inasmuch as the neighborhood was at that time more thickly populated than that of S. Sixtus, and the church was one of popular resort. This character has long since departed from it ; and the tide of population, retreating every year further and ftirther to the west, has left the Aventine ...hill once more to its silent and solitary beauty. Built on the brow of tha^ hill, as it rises abruptly above the Tiber, the convent of Santa Sabina stands between the ancient and the modern city.
On one side it looks over a k)ng vista of dmrches and palaces, until the gold^i glow of the horizon above Monte Mario is cut by the clear sharp outline of that wonderful dome which rises over the tomb of the apostles. Turn but your head, and you gi^e over a different world.
Heaped all about in fantastic confusion, there are the arches of gigantic ruins, and the broken walls and watch-towers standing among the vineyards; and beyond them is the wide Campaoia stretching like a sea into the dim horizon, spanned by the long lines of the aqueducts, that seem as though they reached the very base of those distant mountains which stand round the Eternal city as
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Sixtus to the nuns of the Trastevere. It was attached to the palace of the Savelli, of which family Honorius was a member ; and we are told that the change of residence was particularly welcome to the friars, inasmuch as the neighborhood was at that time more thickly populated than that of S. Sixtus, and the church was one of popular resort. This character has long since departed from it ; and the tide of population, retreating every year further and ftirther to the west, has left the Aventine ...hill once more to its silent and solitary beauty. Built on the brow of tha^ hill, as it rises abruptly above the Tiber, the convent of Santa Sabina stands between the ancient and the modern city.
On one side it looks over a k)ng vista of dmrches and palaces, until the gold^i glow of the horizon above Monte Mario is cut by the clear sharp outline of that wonderful dome which rises over the tomb of the apostles. Turn but your head, and you gi^e over a different world.
Heaped all about in fantastic confusion, there are the arches of gigantic ruins, and the broken walls and watch-towers standing among the vineyards; and beyond them is the wide Campaoia stretching like a sea into the dim horizon, spanned by the long lines of the aqueducts, that seem as though they reached the very base of those distant mountains which stand round the Eternal city as
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