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SORACTE , a See also:mountain in the See also:province of See also:Rome, See also:Italy. It is a narrow, isolated See also:limestone See also:ridge, some 5 M. S.E. of Civita Castellana, and 31 M. in length. The highest See also:summit is 2267 ft. above See also:sea-level; just below it is a monastery removed there from the summit in 1835; it was originally founded about 748 by See also:Carloman, son of See also:Charles Martel (the See also:altar has, indeed, fragments of sculptures of this See also:period), and until See also:modern times was occupied by Trinitarian monks. On the actual summit is a See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church. Owing to the isolated position of the mountain the view is magnificent, and Soracte is a conspicuous See also:object in the landscape, being visible from Rome itself. It is thus mentioned by See also:Horace (" vides ut alta stet nive candidum Soracte?" Carm. i. 9), and See also:Virgil, who mentions See also:Apollo as its See also:guardian deity, though no traces of his See also:temple exist; and in reality it was sacred to Dis See also:Pater and the gods of the See also:lower See also:world. At the bottom of the mountain on the See also:east is a disused limestone See also:quarry. The See also:village of S. Oreste at the See also:south-east end of the ridge owes its name to a corruption of the See also:ancient name. In the communal See also:palace is a See also:fine processional See also:cross of the rrth See also:century in the See also:Byzantine See also:style (see Romische Quartalschrift, 1905,
tog—Archaologie).
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