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John Henry is an American folk hero.An African American freedman, he is said to have worked as a "steel-driving man"—a man tasked with hammering a steel drill into a rock to make holes for explosives to blast the rock in constructing a railroad tunnel.
Purcell composed his last setting of the same sentence for the Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary in 1695, Z. 58C. Here, the words are set mostly in homophony, possibly to complete sentences by Thomas Morley, whose setting of this particular sentence was rediscovered only later. Purcell used an older style to match Morley's music.
John Henry is a 1994 children's picture book by Julius Lester and illustrated by Jerry Pinkney. It is about the American legendary figure John Henry . In 1998, a 19-minute film adaptation of the book was narrated by Samuel L. Jackson and released by Weston Woods Studios .
John Henry and the Inky-Poo is a 1946 stop-motion animation film written and directed by George Pal using Pal's Puppetoons stop-motion style. [2] The film is based on African American folk hero John Henry. [3] [4] John Henry and the Inky-Poo was nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Short for the 19th Academy Awards. [5]
The Dream of Gerontius is an 1865 poem written by John Henry Newman, consisting of the prayer of a dying man, and angelic and demonic responses. The poem, written after Newman's conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism, [1] explores his new Catholic-held beliefs of the journey from death through Purgatory, thence to Paradise, and to God ...
The Sentences was probably compiled in the second century AD. The original collection was pagan. [1] It was later modified to reflect a Christian viewpoint, [2] although there are no explicit references to Jesus. [1] The earliest mention of the Sentences is by Origen in the mid third century. [3]
The purpose of earthly life, therefore, is for humans to prepare for a meeting with God; the Church, citing Abraham 3:26, notes: "All who accept and obey the saving principles and ordinances of the gospel of Jesus Christ will receive eternal life, the greatest gift of God, and will have 'glory added upon their heads for ever and ever'." [62] [63]
The Connellys moved on to Vienna, where their third child John Henry was born. But in July, a bank crisis in the US forced Pierce to return to Natchez to find employment. Offered a position at a Jesuit college in Grand Coteau, Louisiana , he taught English, while 29-year-old Cornelia taught music at an academy for girls. [ 3 ]