Masonry Leader Quotes

Flowering Fields of Kelp ahead. They passed over the bright kelp and the cannon-blasted seagrass, then dived towards the village. From above, the damage caused by Repta was all too clear. Several of the dome-shaped buildings were little more than piles of rubble, and chunks of masonry littered the fields. Max spotted the green-gowned form of Elra in the clearing at the heart of the village. She was pointing, and calling orders to the villagers, who were collecting scattered stones and piling them into carts. Max and Lia made straight for the Astarian leader. She looked up, her eyes narrowing to angry slits as she spotted them, and her hand went to the hilt of her coral sword. “Why do you return after all you’ve done?” she cried. “The Breather brought a tech monster to our village. He is not welcome here!” “No!” Lia said urgently. “That robot attacked Max. It wasn’t his fault. And now the people who sent the Robobeast are coming this way. They mean to destroy us all. You

When bishops, abbots, prelates, and other church officials arrived in the spring of 1140, they had to step over piles of masonry and dodge ropes from cranes as they assembled in the cathedral’s new choir. They were there for a church council, the most important in France ever. In terms of the history of Western civilization, perhaps the most important of all. The Sens council had been summoned to hear Peter Abelard defend his strange new doctrines. His judges included a monk in his early fifties who was a particular friend of Sens’s archbishop and the acknowledged leader of Europe’s most dynamic new monastic order, the Cistercians. He was Bernard of Clairvaux, later to be canonized as Saint Bernard.