Word: augustinian
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...family residence as early as 1873, but exhibition space was always limited. Now some 1,000 sq m of gallery space has been created underground, within the bastion. A second 1,000-sq-m exhibition area was created out of former storage rooms and a section of the adjacent Augustinian monastery. The most lasting impression is made by the newly renovated imperial rooms of the Albertina Palace. It cost j5 million and took an army of 60 experts to clean and restore the 14 staterooms now on view to the public. Says Christian Benedik, the art historian responsible...
...Augustinian motif of sinning one's way to God shows up even in the early life of Dorothy Day, saintly founder of the Catholic Worker movement. The wild young Day studied Emma Goldman's anarchism. She interviewed Leon Trotsky. She had an abortion. She climbed into bed with the dead-drunk Eugene O'Neill to keep him warm until he fell asleep. Now Rome is seriously considering her for canonization...