Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2023 August 11

= August 11 =

Double trouble
The Spring 2023 edition of Irish Chaplaincy recounts how St Brigid founded a "double monastery" (i.e. a convent and a monastery on the same site) at Cill Dara "and ruled over both as Abbess." Double monasteries are absolutely forbidden under Orthodox church law, yet there are at least two in England - the Anglican Community of the Servants of the Will of God at Crawley Down and the Orthodox Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St John the Baptist at Tolleshunt Knights. Do any survive in Ireland? 2A02:C7B:107:2600:5859:C4A3:C5CD:E12B (talk) 10:04, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
 * This edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia states rather unequivocally that Kildare Abbey, the one you cited above, was the only known one in Ireland. Because it has since closed, there are none left.  -- Jayron 32 12:04, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
 * They were much more common in Anglo-Saxon England. The abbess, typically a princess, was usually the boss. What "Orthodox church law" had to do with it I don't know. Double monastery claims there were several Eastern examples, both old and new. Johnbod (talk) 15:51, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

Identify an art award
Hello!

I started Theo Stavropoulos, and according to my source, he won "Prix Defranc" "Prix Lefranc" in 1952. My current hypothesis is that that is a misprint.

It seems there are both art-related Prix de France and Prix le France awards (and probably more than those), so your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to help me find a ref for which prize he got. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:34, 11 August 2023 (UTC)


 * I see Daniel Buren won the Prix Lefranc de la Jeune Peinture (prize for young painters), it might be that. Card Zero  (talk) 13:18, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
 * could be. I wonder if Prix le France de la Jeune Peinture, Paris. is the same, spelt a little differently. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 13:41, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Theo is not listed as winning the Prix Lefranc de la J.P., which began in 1946, but there is an older Prix Lefranc which has been won by various painters, e.g. fr:Annette Faive in 1934 and 1935. Seems to be won by people (like Theo) who went to the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Card Zero  (talk) 13:46, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your hard work. As a consolation price, I found this charming story on ProQuest: Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:47, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

Sankebetsu brown bear incident
In 1915, the Japan ruler was Emperor Taisho. Can you find if there are info about what he thought on that incident, and if he had done something for the village's victims? Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.207.180.7 (talk) 13:27, 11 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Emperor Taisho was really a ruler in name only. He suffered from ill-health and disabilities stemming from a bout of meningitis when he was a baby. Therefore the powers that his father had assumed in the Meiji Restoration passed to the parliament or Diet of Japan, a period known as the Taishō Democracy. So it seems likely that there was no imperial response to the incident. I did a quick Google search but found nothing. Alansplodge (talk) 11:09, 12 August 2023 (UTC)