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“One of the most important functions of monasteries was as schools. Monastic schools were well attended (mostly by boys). Some of the students were treated as foster children by the monks, living in the care of another family until they were ready to return to their homes and adult responsibilities. Many noble warrior fathers seem to have thought that their sons would be safer in a monastery than at home. Students had to find and prepare food for the monks and help out with the business of running the monastery. But most of their time was spent studying and working.”
― 101 Things You Didn't Know About Irish History: The People, Places, Culture, and Tradition of the Emerald Isle
― 101 Things You Didn't Know About Irish History: The People, Places, Culture, and Tradition of the Emerald Isle
“When Abbess Ebba received tidings of the near approach of the pagan hordes, who had already wrecked vengeance upon ecclesiastics, monks, and consecrated virgins, she summoned her nuns to Chapter, and in a moving discourse exhorted them to preserve at any cost the treasure of their chastity. Then seizing a razor, and calling upon her daughters to follow her heroic example, she mutilated her face in order to inspire the barbarian invaders with horror at the sight. The nuns without exception courageously followed the example of their abbess. When the Danes broke into the cloister and saw the nuns with faces thus disfigured, they fled in panic. Their leaders, burning with rage, sent back some of their number to set fire to the monastery, and thus the heroic martyrs perished in the common ruin of their house.”
― A Calendar of Scottish Saints
― A Calendar of Scottish Saints
“...anyone who willingly turns their life upside down by becoming a cook is totally insane to begin with. So many chefs that I have met are dyslexic and totally not school people or intellectuals. That could be symbolic of the kind of lifestyle that they choose to live. They all drink a lot, do a lot of drugs, drink a shitload of coffee and espresso. They don’t sleep much, and obviously don’t have much of a life outside the kitchen. A cook’s friend is a cook, there isn’t much time for a non-cook friend or girlfriend. And time really isn’t the issue so much as it’s a lifestyle and a culture that is very hard to understand or identify with unless you are on the inside. Cooks hang out with cooks because there is nobody else awake, hungry and totally wired at 2am on a Tuesday.”
― 29 Jobs and a Million Lies
― 29 Jobs and a Million Lies
“My mantra, like most, was that if it didn’t kill you, it only made you stronger. Later on in life, after being beat down by the experiences following you’ll read about, I’ve changed the mantra to, if it doesn’t kill you now, it will later.”
― 29 Jobs and a Million Lies
― 29 Jobs and a Million Lies
“The Irish mingled their Christianity with folk beliefs in fairies and changelings.”
― 101 Things You Didn't Know About Irish History: The People, Places, Culture, and Tradition of the Emerald Isle
― 101 Things You Didn't Know About Irish History: The People, Places, Culture, and Tradition of the Emerald Isle
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