"Quapropter potius animam curare memento, quam carnem, quoniam haec manet, illa perit"
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Epitaph at St. Martin of Tours abbey
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Alcuin
Alcuin (Latinised: Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus; circa 735 – 19 May 804) was a Northumbrian scholar, theologian and catholic educator who taught for the court of Charlemagne.
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