The family was Byzantine Catholic and attended St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church.

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

* 1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.

John Newton Late Rector of the United Parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary Woolchurch Haw, London: Volume 1, Nathan Whiting, London.

* 1309 – The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes.

* 1940 – Jill St. John, American actress

* 1879 – The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears at Knock Shrine in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.

During his tenure he publicly defended the Dominicans against attacks by the secular and regular faculty of the University of Paris, commented on St John, and answered what he perceived as errors of the Arabian philosopher Averroes.

Grimbald and John the Saxon came from Francia ; Plegmund ( whom Alfred appointed archbishop of Canterbury in 890 ), Bishop Werferth of Worcester, Æthelstan, and the royal chaplains Werwulf, from Mercia ; and Asser, from St. David's in south-western Wales.

In the late sixth century, Ayios Ioannis Eleimonas ( Saint John the Charitable ), protector of the Knights of St. John, was born in Amathus.

Amathus still flourished and produced a distinguished patriarch of Alexandria, St. John the Merciful, as late as 606-616, and a ruined Byzantine church marks the site ; but it declined and was already almost deserted when Richard Plantagenet won Cyprus by a victory there over Isaac Comnenus in 1191.

He also translated from Greek into Latin a life of St. John Chrysostom ( Venice, 1533 ); the Spiritual Wisdom of John Moschus ; The Ladder of Divine Ascent of St. John Climacus ( Venice, 1531 ), P. G., LXXXVIII.

He also translated many homilies of St. John Chrysostom ; the treatise of the Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite on the celestial hierarchy ; St.

** Beheading of St. John the Baptist

Amongst these were the group Mars and Venus, the colossal figure of Pius VI, the Pietà, the St John, the recumbent Magdalen.

`` John Clayton will see to that ''.

And their arrival caught John Clayton and Charles Ansley off guard.

But Dandy had had little experience with girls on his master's plantation in Bayou St. John.

Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.

Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.

Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.

John Adams fashioned much of pre-Revolutionary radical ideology, wrote the constitution of his home state of Massachusetts, negotiated, with Franklin and Jay, the peace with Britain and served as our first Vice President and our second President.

Less dazzling than Hamilton, less eloquent than Jefferson, John Jay commands an equally high rank among the Founding Fathers.

As first Chief Justice, his strong nationalist opinions anticipated John Marshall.

John Adams dismissed John Dickinson, who voted against the Declaration of Independence, as `` a certain great fortune and piddling genius ''.

John Adams took to heart the advice given him by his legal mentor, Jeremiah Gridley, to `` pursue the study of the law, rather than the gain of it ''.

John Adams asserted in the Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights that the demands of the colonies were in accordance with their charters, the British Constitution and the common law, and Jefferson appealed in the Declaration of Independence `` to the tribunal of the world '' for support of a revolution justified by `` the laws of nature and of nature's God ''.

This sense of moderation and fairness is superbly exemplified in an exchange of letters between John Jay and a Tory refugee, Peter Van Schaack.

`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.

As John T. Westbrook says in his article, `` Twilight Of Southern Regionalism '' ( Southwest Review, Winter 1957 ): `` The miasmal mausoleum where an Old South, already too minutely autopsied in prose and poetry, should be left to rest in peace, forever dead and ( let us fervently hope ) forever done with ''.

One beat poet composes a poem, `` Lines On A Tijuana John '', which contains a few happy hints for survival.

That John Locke's philosophy of the social contract fathered the American Revolution with its Declaration of Independence, I believe, we generally accept.

The planter aristocracy has appeared in literature at least since John Pendleton Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern literature.

A lady, you made clear to me both by precept and example, never raised her voice or slumped in her chair, never failed in social tact ( in heaven, for instance, would not mention St. John the Baptist's head ), never pouted or withdrew or scandalized in company, never reminded others of her physical presence by unseemly sound or gesture, never indulged in public scenes or private confidences, never spoke of money save in terms of alleviating suffering, never gossiped or maligned, never stressed but always minimized the hopelessness of anything from sin to death itself.

When Captain John Gibault of Salem had visited Burma in 1793 his ship, the Astra, had been promptly commandeered and taken by her captors up the Irrawaddy River.

His second wife, Lillian, was the mother of John H. Mercer.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

John was away at school most of the time.

** John II, 8th Duke of Braganza and 3rd Duke of Barcelos.

St John Damascene, writing in the 8th century AD, also notes of an earlier sect called the " Cathari ", in his book On Heresies, taken from the epitome provided by Epiphanius of Salamis in his Panarion.

* Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough ( 1871 – 1934 ), only son of the 8th Duke

Essendon slumped to 8th in 1952 but John Coleman was in irrepressible form managing 103 goals for the year.

On the 8th of June Clement X took possession of St. John Lateran.

The emphasis on the salvific nature of the Resurrection continued in Christian theology in the next centuries, e. g., in the 8th century Saint John of Damascus wrote that: "... When he had freed those who were bound from the beginning of time, Christ returned again from among the dead, having opened for us the way to resurrection " and Christian iconography of the ensuing years represented that concept.

* March 21 – John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne, whose father, the 8th Duke of Argyll, is the serving Secretary of State for India, marries Princess Louise.

** John J. Peck graduates from West Point 8th from a class of 39.

The dialect thrived between the 8th and 13th centuries and was referred to by John Trevisa, writing in 1387:

** John de Ros, 8th Baron de Ros ( d. 1421 )

The office was established in 1789 by Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, which states in part, " The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker ..." The current speaker is John Boehner, a Republican who represents Ohio's 8th congressional district.

In an 8th century polemical work, John of Damascus criticized the Saracens as followers of a false prophet and " forerunner to the Antichrist.

Church of St John the Baptist, 8th century

John the Evangelist | Saint John, evangelist portrait from the Book of Mulling, Irish, late 8th century

They had four children, including John Manners, 8th Earl of Rutland.

* John Kennedy, 8th Earl of Cassilis ( 1700 – 1759 ), Scottish peer

* The U. S. Army's ( now inactive ) 8th Infantry Division ( Mechanized ) is called the Pathfinder Division, after John Frémont.

The county is traditionally Democrat and is part of Tennessee's 8th congressional district represented by Blue Dog Democrat John S. Tanner.

As such it is part of Tennessee's 8th congressional district, which is represented by Blue Dog Democrat John S. Tanner.

The words of the hymn ( The Hymn of St. John ) were written by Paulus Diaconus in the 8th century.

In August 2011, a three-judge panel of the 8th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected John Lotter's appeal.

* Samuel Bell, 8th governor of New Hampshire and brother of John Bell