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Okavango : Beware the Ultimate Cure
From South Africa comes a proven vaccine for TB. The CDC is planning a major inoculation program in Houston, L.A. and New Jersey.
The wonder drug seems on the up and up, until Freelance writer Terry Johns and wildlife photographer Liza Rittenauer innocently photograph two men and their airplane in a remote section of the Okavango Swamps. The photo sets in motion a tilt-a-whirl of violence and intrigue. While Liza lingers in a life-threatening coma, Terry, Liza’s sister, Dawn, and the women’s father, Cy, discover a sinister connection between the men in Liza’s photograph, an underground lab in the Okavango, a leading pharmaceutical company in Johannesburg and a major HMO in Houston, Texas. And for Terry Johns, the truth becomes a nightmare.
Okavango : Beware the Ultimate Cure
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A history of the Dominicans in Dublin.
SAINT SAVIOUR’S PRIORY IN THE 14th CENTURY.
Ambrose Coleman OP.
The fourteenth century, owing to the disturbed state of the country, and, later on, to the ravages of the Black Death, followed, in a few years, by the Great Schism in the Church, was a period rather of stagnation then of progress for the Dominican order in Ireland. During forty-nine years of that period not a single new foundation was made. Still, that the Dominicans of Dublin were not destitute of life and energy, the following narratives will show. In 1308 a great fire occurred on the north side of the river, in which both the Church of the Dominicans and the Church of St Mary’s Abbey together with a large part of St Mary’s Abbey and the adjoining streets, were burned. The Dominicans at once set about erecting a new church, of which the first stone was laid by the Lord Justice Parker, one of the first men in Ireland at the time. Their great benefactor, John Le Deset, who was the first Provost of Dublin in 1308, gave great help to the work of reconstruction. He presented one of the stone pillars, and paid the cost of the great stone of the high altar, for which also he provided the ornaments. He is also said, though Clynn, the Franciscan annalist, seems to throw doubt on the story, to have entertained the friars at his own table every Friday, and in a year of general scarcity imported from France three vessels laden with corn, one of which he presented to the Lord Justice for distribution, and another to Dominican and Augustinian seminaries, receiving the third to himself for distribution among the poor. It appears that these beneficent actions moved the Dublin Dominicans to insert a special prayer in their liturgy for the prosperity of the City of Dublin, "Orate pro salute maoiris, ballivorum et communitatis de omni civitate Dublin; nunc et in hora mortis." "Pray for the health ans salvation of the Mayor, bailiffs and citizens of Dublin, great benefactors of our Order, now and at the hour of death."
It is probable that John Le Deset originated the custom of the outgoing and incoming mayor, with the Aldermen, and the masters of Arts, together with a promiscuous gathering of the citizens, going in procession on the election day, the 28th of September, to the Church of St Saviour’s to hear a sermon from the prior on the duty of magistrates, a custom rigidly adhered to till the time of suppression. A relic of this religious and useful custom was preserved almost to our own times, by the preambulations of the mayor and aldermen to the sound of bugles, from the tholsel to where the church once stood, and through the gardens and cloisters of the ancient convent. After the Reformation, however, the sermon was heard in Christ Church. According to Walter Besant, a similar custom obtained in the City of London till the year 1837. Up to that time, every Easter Monday, the Lord mayor, sherrifs, and aldermen went in state to Christ Church, formerly the Grey friars, and heard service.
The other record we have of this new church which was destined to be destroyed after eight years, is that, in 1309, it was used as a place of burial for Sir John Cogan, Sir Walter Faunt, and Sir John Fitzkerry, knights. In the monastery a provincial chapter was held in 1313. The cause of the destruction of both monastery and Church was the coming of Robert Bruce in 1316 to lay siege to Dublin. The following account of it is given in one of Sir James Ware’s manuscripts.
"the reason why this monastery was first demolished. Edward Bruse, the brother of Robert Bruse, King of Scotts, arrived in the North of Ireland, from whence he marched within his army until the came as far as Castle Knock. But the citizens common being sore amazed at the approach of so potent and enemy, assembled together, and, with a general mustering, burned all the houses of Saint Thomas Street, lest he should, on his repair to Dublin, have any succour there. Robert Nottingham, then mayor of the city of Dublin, together with the commons, razed down this monastery, being in those days called the Friars Preachers’ Abbey (their order was of St Dominic), for to prevent the said Bruce, lest he should find any succour there, or they would give any opportunity to give annoyance to the south part of the city, and with the stones of the monastery they built these two gates, the gate going up Saint Audoen’s Arch, in Cork Street, and Winetavern gate. Which, since his Majesty’s restoration, has been pulled down by the general consent of the city, and also built a wall all along that side for the better fortification of the city, suspecting that the walls about the quays of Dublin were not sufficient to keep out the enemy. The Scots, upon this intelligence, hearing how the citizens had fortified Dublin, thought it a folly to lay siege to so impregnable a City, and marched afterwards to the place called the Salmon Leap, about seven miles distant from this city, in which place they pitched their tents, and in four days time they removed from thence and came to the Naas. But when the city was out of danger, Edward the Second, then King, gave a strict order for to rebuild the said abbey, which, in this time of necessity, they had demolished, saying that although laws lay dormant in the time of war, yet in peace they were to the revived, upon which command the said monastery was repaired or rebuilt. Now it is the place set apart for the Judges of his Majesty’s Courts, called by the name of the King’s Inns, in Dublin."
Not many years after this we find monastery and church in existence again, as may be seen from the following obituary notices:
1328. The Lord Arnold Palmer, who was accused of heresy, died this year, and lay a long time unburied in this monastery.
1329. The body of the Lord Thomas Bottiler who was killed by M’Geoghan, was honourably interred in the Church of St Saviour’s by the citizens of Dublin.
1332. The Lord William Birmingham who was publicly executed by the orders of Sir Anthony Lacy, the Lord Lieutenant, was interred in this church on July 11.
In 1351, Kenelbrick Sherman, who had been Provost of Dublin in 1348, died in the monastery in the midst of the Dominicans, to whom he had been a great benefactor. He had given substantial aid in the construction of the Church, building the belfry, glazing the great East window, and roofing the Church. By his own wish he was interred under the belfry. By his will he left numerous legacies to the clergy, regular and secular, within 20 miles of Dublin. Ten years after this, in 1361, another of their benefactors, Maurice Doncref, died and was buried in the churchyard belonging to the monastery. He had given forty pounds towards the glazing of the Church. Here we may mention incidentally that the very year Doncref died saw the destruction, by a violent tempest, of Sherman’s belfry. We thus see that the mandate of the King to the citizens, to rebuild church and monastery, was taken up in a noble and generous spirit; in fact, it is certain that the work would have been accomplished without any mandate at all.
We must now trace the connection of the Dominicans with the abortive University scheme of the Archbishop, Alexander Bicknor. A previous Archbishop, John Lechum, had besought Clement V. for a bull of foundation, but the archbishop’s death the year following put an end to the scheme. It was attained upwards by Alexander Bicknorr, who, in 1320, drew up a series of rules and regulations for the new institution. It is worthy of note that in this decree he refers to the theological schools then in existence, belonging to the Dominicans and Franciscans. Among the first who received the doctor’s cap at the new university were William de Hardite and Edmund de Karmardin, Dominicans. Hardite was the first professor of theology in it, and is said to have turned out in his time some first-class theologians; Karmardin was afterwards Bishop of Ardfert. After a short period the university is said to have collapsed from want of funds; but more probably the potent cause was the overshadowing influence, power, and prestige of Oxford, which then counted thirty thousand students. In the latter part of the following century, a strenuous effort to get a university founded was made by the four mendicant orders, the Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians, and Carmelites, and Sixtus IV. gave a ball of foundation at their united request. A certain amount of teaching was done for some years, but in the end the second university collapsed like the first. The only reference to it is made in a provincial council, held in Dublin in 1484, under Archbishop Fitzsimons. The council granted that certain stipends should be paid annually for seven years to the teachers at the University, by the Archbishop, bishops, and clergy of the province of Dublin.
The latter half of the fourteenth century was, on the whole, a time of misfortune for the Dominicans, as well as for the other medicant orders in Ireland. In 1348 came the Black Death, decimating their numbers and impairing their efficiency. A few years afterwards Ralph FitzRalph, Archbishop of Armagh, a great enemy of the medicant orders, began preaching his famous sermons against them, and though in the end he was condemned by the Pope, he stirred up bitter feelings, and gave rise to endless controversies. To crown all, the Great Schism in the Church, which began in 1378, continued for a long time without showing any signs of healing, and was a source of great disorder.
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