In his twenty-seven year reign (1978-2005), Pope John Paul II created not only more saints than any other pope in history, but also more saints than all the other popes put together since Pope Urban VIII centralised control of saint-making in 1634. This article argues that the elevation of ‘celebrity saints’, such as Padre Pio and Mother Theresa, can be seen as an attempt on the part of the Cat...

AMONG the many saints associated with the healing arts, the twin brothers SS. Cosmas and Damian have long been revered and adopted as patrons. Their practice ofmedicine and surgery in Asia Minor without fe-hence called 'Anagyroi,' without silver-and their martyrdom in Aegea, in Cilicia, in the time of Diocletian, and according to tradition by Lysis, Roman Governor of the Province, made a lastin...

Advances in medical science are frequently characterized by two related phenomena. First, they create the opportunity for individuals to make choices previously unavailable and thereby pose new moral questions that challenge both our moral intuitions and social institutions. Second, innovation in healthcare unfolds, both in the sense that its utilization spreads geographically but also that it ...

1 2 Somatic calcium level reports integrated spiking activity of cerebellar interneurons 3 in vitro and in vivo 4 Romain Franconville1, Gaëlle Revet1 , Guadalupe Astorga1 Beat Schwaller2 and Isabel 5 Llano1 6 1: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire de Physiologie 7 Cérébrale, Université Paris Descartes, 45 rue des Saints Pères, Paris 75006, France 8 2: Division of Histology...

Futuwwat-nāmes aim to shape the religious and worldly lives of people. They are texts that establish individual social order, equip order organization, nurture cultural unity, support economic development, deal with legal issues, describe ideal person guide society. Futuwwat-nāmes, which reveal a form human being physically, mentally emotionally, express both moral literature by adhering verses...

5 Kosuke Hamaguchi *, Alexa Riehle , and Nicolas Brunel (2,3) 6 7 8 (1) Amari Research Unit, RIKEN, Brain Science Institute, Hirosawa 2-1, Wako-shi, 9 Saitama, 351-0198, Japan 10 (2) Université Paris Descartes, Laboratoire de Neurophysique et Physiologie, 45 rue des 11 Saints Pères, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France 12 (3) CNRS, UMR 8119 45 rue des Saints Pères, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France 13 (4) I...