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At the weigh-in for the fight, Cormier was 1.2 pounds over the 205-pound limit for a light heavyweight championship fight: he was allowed a second weigh-in and came in at the 205 limit. [73] Cormier won the fight via rear-naked choke submission in the second round.
Saint Telemachus (also Almachus [1] or Almachius) was a monk who, according to the Church historian Theodoret, [3] tried to stop a gladiatorial fight in a Roman amphitheatre, and was stoned to death by the crowd. The Christian Emperor Honorius, however, was impressed by the monk's martyrdom and it spurred him to issue a historic ban on ...
Even a married priest or deacon whose wife dies may not then marry again. The Catholic Church and the ancient Christian Churches see priestly ordination as a sacrament dedicating the ordinand to a permanent relationship of service, and, like Baptism and Confirmation, having an ontological effect on him. It is for this reason that a person may ...
Saint Benedict of Nursia (c. 480–543); detail from a fresco by Fra Angelico (c. 1400–1455) in the Friary of San Marco Florence. The monastery at Subiaco in Italy, established by Benedict of Nursia c. 529, was the first of the dozen monasteries he founded.
From the beginning, the monks used a system of lay brothers and employees to operate their farms; monks and priests were busy with their liturgical and sacramental duties. The lay brothers formed a body of men who lived alongside of the choir monks, but separate from them, not taking part in the canonical office, but having their own fixed ...
In New York, meanwhile, a Catholic millionaire from Orange County led an event that seemed a throwback to the church of the 1950s: Priests in ornate vestments marched down Broadway with a police ...
Jon Jones retained his heavyweight title with a stunning stoppage of Stipe Miocic at UFC 309, finishing the legend with a spinning back kick to the body.. The fight had proven controversial, with ...
According to the Catholic Leader, they are known for a life devoted “to the praise of God and salvation of the world through a stricter separation from the world, the silence of solitude, and ...