Dimma

William Dimma, CEO of a major Canadian financial institution, stated simply: there are only four ways I know of to deal with the future.

The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning HENRY MINTZBERG 1994

William Dimma, CEO of a major Canadian financial institution, stated simply: there are only four ways I know of to deal with the future.

The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning HENRY MINTZBERG 1994

This monastery became a famous school, and it was within its walls that the scribe Dimma wrote for St. Cronan the copy of the Four Gospels now in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, for which Tatheus O'Carroll, chieftain of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

St. Cronan, however, bade him write, and then Dimma set to work, never ceasing till he had finished the Four Gospels, the sun continuing to shine for the space of forty days and forty nights - the scribe himself being unconscious that the work occupied more than one day.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Praefatio, in the Gallican sense, "Oremus fratres, Dominum Deum nostrum pro fratre nostro", followed by six collects, all but one of which, as well as the Praefatio are in the Dimma.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Whatever may be thought of this legend, it is certain that a magnificent Evangelistarium, known as the "Book of Dimma", was for centuries preserved in St. Cronan's

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

It appears that Dimma could only undertake one day's task, from sunrise to sunset.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

The most surprising, perhaps, is the legend as to the transcribing of the Four Gospels by one of his monks, named Dimma.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

The case containing the "Book of Dimma" was richly gilt by order of O'Carroll,

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

The scribe, Dimma MacNathi, signs his name at the conclusion of each of the Gospels, and he has been identified with Dimma, subsequently Bishop of Connor, who is mentioned with St. Cronan in the letter of Pope John IV in 640, in regard to Pelagianism in

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913