almsgiver

The casual almsgiver has been succeeded by a whole series of social service agencies.

He gave away all he possessed in alms, and became known throughout the East as the Almsgiver.

He was a generous almsgiver.

When the dominant aim of the almsgiver is to satisfy himself as to his piety, it is only by accident that the alms really help the recipient.

San Giovanni Elemosinario is a church of Venice, northern Italy, dedicated to Saint John the Almsgiver.

Nicetas fled to Cyprus along with Patriarch John the Almsgiver, who was a major supporter of Nicetas in Egypt.

At Egypt, Nicetas sponsored the election of John the Almsgiver as Patriarch of Alexandria, with whom he even became a ritual brother through the rite of adelphopoiesis.

You are a great almsgiver," said the visitor, "and although you are said to be rich, I will venture to offer you something for your poor people; will you accept my offering?

In 610, Nicetas succeeded in capturing the province, establishing a power base there with the help of Patriarch John the Almsgiver, who was elected with the help of Nicetas.

In Mauss' words, "Charity is still wounding for him who has accepted it, and the whole tendency of our morality is to strive to do away with the unconscious and injurious patronage of the rich almsgiver".

Dawes, Elizabeth & Baynes, Norman H. (1948), Three Byzantine Saints: Contemporary Biographies of St. Daniel the Stylite, St. Theodore of Sykeon and St. John the Almsgiver.

Pázmány died in Pozsony (today Bratislava) in 1637 and was buried underneath the floor of St. Martin's Cathedral, at the foot of the ancient tomb of St. John the Almsgiver, which he had embellished during his reign.