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* Church of Sant ' Agostino, built by the Augustinians in 1341 as Santa Maria del Popolo, and enlarged by Luigi Vanvitelli in the 18th century and turned into a palace after 1860.
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Gregory XV died in the Quirinal Palace on 8 July 1623, and was buried in the Church of Sant ' Ignazio.
He appointed his illegitimate son Giacomo, born to his mistress at Bologna before his papacy, castellan of Sant ' Angelo and Gonfalonier of the Church ; Venice, anxious to please, enrolled him among its nobles.
The bronze and silver doors of the Cassinese Basilica that Desiderius erected remain, and in the Church of Sant ' Angelo in Formis, near Capua, some of the frescoes executed by his orders may still be seen.
Other important and major churches in Genoa include the Church of San Donato, the Church of Sant ' Agostino, the Oratory of San Giacomo della Marina, the Church of Santo Stefano, San Torpete and the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato.
** Church of Sant Miquel along the cloister of Santa Maria d ' Urgell is the only building that remains of the cathedral complex built by Sant Ermengol that dates from the year 1035.
Church and Agostino
The Palazzo Comunale, the Collegiate Church and Church of Sant ' Agostino contain frescos, including cycles dating from the 14th and 15th centuries.
When his wife died on 24 March 1775 at the age of 57 he commissioned the Italian sculptor Agostino Carlini to create a magnificent tomb to her memory in the Abbey Church.
Both were at the Church of Sant ' Agostino, a fresco cycle of the life of St Augustine of Hippo executed 1464-65, and another St Sebastian, showing the townsfolk sheltering beneath his cloak.
The chiesa di Sant ' Agostino ( Church of St Augustine ) is the second largest church in San Gimignano, Italy, after the Collegiata.
It was founded by Agostino Gabrino, the son of a merchant of Brescia to defend the Catholic Church against the expected Antichrist.
* Church of S. Agostino ( 18th century ): brickwork façade with four Corinthian columns ( on the Piazza Garibaldi )
* Church and cloister of Sant ' Agostino ( 13th century ), remade one century later together with the cathedral.
Church and built
Adjacent to the Forum, at the junction of the same cardo, and the other decumanus, Hadrian built a large temple to the goddess Venus, which later became the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ; despite 11th century destruction, which resulted in the modern Church having a much smaller footprint, several boundary walls of Hadrian's temple have been found among the archaeological remains beneath the Church.
The nearby St John the Baptist Church of the same parish was originally built in the 13th century, with some of the original architecture still intact.
St. James's Church was built in 1763, replacing the old chapel however it did not achieve parochial status until as late as 1870.
In 1099, Bethlehem was captured by the Crusaders, who fortified it and built a new monastery and cloister on the north side of the Church of the Nativity.
Past the bend are The Apthorp and the First Baptist Church in the City of New York ( 1891 ), built for a Baptist congregation in New York since 1762.
A church was planned in the 1930s but delayed by World War II: the Church of St Mary and St Petroc was eventually consecrated in 1965: it was built next to the already existing seminary.
Theodosius I founded the Church of John the Baptist to house the skull of the saint ( today preserved at the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, Turkey ), put up a memorial pillar to himself in the Forum of Taurus, and turned the ruined temple of Aphrodite into a coach house for the Praetorian Prefect ; Arcadius built a new forum named after himself on the Mese, near the walls of Constantine.
Justinian also had Anthemius and Isidore demolish and replace the original Church of the Holy Apostles built by Constantine with a new church under the same dedication.
The saint is assigned a feast day which may be celebrated anywhere within the Catholic Church, although it may or may not appear on the general calendar or local calendars as an obligatory feast, parish churches may be built in his or her honor, and the faithful may freely and without restriction celebrate and honor the saint.
Eusebius claims, in his Life of Constantine, that the site of the Church had originally been a Christian place of veneration, but that Hadrian had deliberately covered these Christian sites with earth, and built his own temple on top, due to his hatred for Christianity.
The Bible describes Jesus ' tomb as being outside the city wall, as was normal for burials across the ancient world, which were regarded as unclean, but the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the heart of Hadrian's city, well within the Old City walls, which were built by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1538 Some have claimed that the city had been much narrower in Jesus ' time, with the site then having been outside the walls ; since Herod Agrippa ( 41 – 44 ) is recorded by history as extending the city to the north ( beyond the present northern walls ), the required repositioning of the western wall is traditionally attributed to him as well.
He built nearly 40 churches along the coast with the fund of local headmen and king, out of this St. Stephen's Church, Kombuthurai find mention in his letters dated 1544. He lived in a sea cave in Manapad, intensively catechizing paravars and other children for three months in 1544.
* 1832-The Church of the Holy Trinity, built for the needs of Anglican worshippers among Gibraltar's civil population, is completed.
The newly built cathedral, the Mother Church in Echmiadzin became and remains the spiritual and cultural center of Armenian Christianity and center of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
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