Carndonagh is the main market town on the peninsula and is the site of the Donagh Cross, which belonged to an early Christian monastery founded by St. Patrick for Bishop MacCairthan, brother of the bishop of Clogher.

* 1577 – Christian IV of Denmark and Norway ( d. 1648 )

* 1777 – Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist ( d. 1851 )

* 1882 – Christian Mortensen, Danish-American super-centenarian ( d. 1998 )

* 1503 – Christian III of Denmark ( d. 1559 )

* 1805 – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer ( d. 1875 )

* 1928 – Christian Goethals, Belgian race car driver ( d. 2003 )

His education began with the reading of Robinson Crusoe ( unabridged ), Gulliver's Travels, the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and Madame d ' Aulnoy, the Arabian Nights and ( at the age of 13 ) the poems of Edgar Allan Poe.

* 1817 – Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, Danish nobleman and politician ( d. 1896 )

* 1879 – Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, Queen Consort to Christian X ( d. 1952 )

* 1801 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer ( d. 1836 )

* 1953 – Dana Key, American Christian rock guitarist, singer, and producer ( DeGarmo and Key ) ( d. 2010 )

* 1721 – Christian Friedrich Heinecken, German child prodigy ( d. 1725 )

* 1748 – Christian Gottlob Neefe, German opera composer and conductor ( d. 1798 )

* 1732 – Johann Christian Kittel, German organist, composer, and teacher ( d. 1809 )

Contemporaneously to English Gothic, parallel Romantic literary movements developed in continental Europe: the roman noir (" black novel ") in France, by such writers as François Guillaume Ducray-Duminil, Gaston Leroux, Baculard d ' Arnaud, and Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin, Madame de Genlis and the Schauerroman (" shudder novel ") in Germany by such writers as Friedrich Schiller, author of The Ghost-Seer ( 1789 ) and Christian Heinrich Spiess, author of Das Petermännchen ( 1791 / 92 ).

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Conrad Gesner ( d. 1565 ) was the first Christian to compile a catalogue of Hebrew books.

* 1777 – Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor ( d. 1857 )

* 1933 – Christian Ferras, French violinist ( d. 1982 )

* 1481 – Christian II of Denmark ( d. 1559 )

* 1856 – Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer ( d. 1932 )

* 1715 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet ( d. 1769 )

* 1760 – Christian Kramp, French mathematician ( d. 1826 )

* 1831 – Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein ( d. 1917 )

As a Christian, I know I do not stand where Beckett stands, but I do see much of what he sees.

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

Following the theme of Incarnation in the Gospels, the Christian artist and critic sees in the most commonplace and ordinary events `` figures '' of divine power and reality.

Artistic mimesis under Christian influence records the involvement of all persons, however humble, in a divine drama.

I have chosen to use the word `` mimesis '' in its Christian rather than its classic implications and to discover in the concrete forms of both art and myth powers of theological expression which, as in the Christian mind, are the direct consequence of involvement in historical experience, which are not reserved, as in the Greek mind, only to moments of theoretical reflection.

He specifies, `` in the middle period of the Nineteenth Century it was colored by Christian supernaturalism, in the Twentieth Century it was affected by naturalism.

And with Progressivism the Religion of Humanity was replacing what Gabriel called Christian supernaturalism.

but both groups were so closely knit that despite individual differences the family life in both cases was remarkably similar in atmosphere if not entirely in content -- the one being definitely Jewish and the other vaguely Christian.

As for missionaries, even if they succeeded in getting into the country they probably would not be allowed to preach the Christian faith to the Burmans.

The anti-Semitism of Hitler owed something to his exposure to the ideology of Lueger's politically successful Christian socialist movement in Vienna.

Again, Henley's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self-mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in Milton's sonnet on his own blindness.

I went to the Christian Endeavor Society and to the evening service of the church.

This salvation does not take the form of a Christian Heaven.

In Patchen's eyes, organized churches are as odious as organized governments, and Christian symbols, having been taken over by the moneyed classes, are now agents of corruption.

Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party slipped only a little in the voting but it was enough to lose the absolute Bundestag majority it has enjoyed since 1957.

The football opponent on homecoming is, of course, selected with the view that said opponent will have little more chance than did a Christian when thrown to one of the emperor's lions.

It is true, of course, the uncertainties of life being what they are, that as now and then the Christian killed the lion, homecoming days have been ruined by a visiting team.

when his Holiness Pope John 23, first called for an Ecumenical Council, and at the same time voiced his yearning for Christian unity, the enthusiasm among Catholic and Protestant ecumenicists was immediate.

First of all, it is now known that Pope John sees the renewal and purification of the Church as an absolutely necessary step toward Christian unity.

Equally significant, Pope John has said that Catholics themselves bear some responsibility for Christian disunity.

Secondly, a whole series of addresses and actions by the Pope and by others show that concern for Christian unity is still very much alive and growing within the Church.

The establishment, by the Holy Father, of a permanent Secretariat for Christian Unity in 1960 was the most dramatic mark of this concern.

Augustin Cardinal Bea, the director of the Secretariate for Christian Unity, has expressed as directly as anyone the new spirit that pervades the Church's stance toward the Protestant and Orthodox Churches.

Sessions devoted to `` Ethics and Foreign Policy Trends '', `` Moral Principle and Political Judgment '', `` Christian Ethics in the Cold War '' and related subjects proved to be much livelier under this procedure than if Catholics were merely talking to themselves.