Following the production of his first short film, Hag in a Black Leather Jacket ( 1964 ), Waters decided to begin production of a second work, Roman Candles ( 1966 ), that was influenced by the pop artist Andy Warhol's recently created Chelsea Girls ( 1966 ) by consisting of three 8-millimeter movies played simultaneously side by side.

The first film to star Divine, in this instance in drag as a smoking nun, Roman Candles featured the Dreamlanders modeling their shoplifted clothes and performing various other surreal activities.

Being both a short film and of an avant-garde nature, Roman Candles would never receive widespread distribution, instead holding its premier at the annual Mt.

Waters followed Roman Candles with a third short film, entitled Eat Your Makeup ( 1968 ), in which Divine once more wore drag, this time in order to portray a fictionalized version of Jackie Kennedy, the widow of recently assassinated U. S. President John F. Kennedy, who in the film had turned to kidnapping models and forcing them to eat their own makeup.

The most popular singles from this album were: “ If ”, “ Goodbye to the Roman Candles ,” “ Blues for you ”, “ Have to Carry On ”.

* Goodbye To The Roman Candles

* Goodbye To The Roman Candles ( London remix )

Maelcum Soul ( born Patricia Ann Soul ; September 22, 1940-April 5, 1968 ) was a 1960s Baltimore, Maryland bohemian, artist, and an actress in two of filmmaker John Waters ' earliest works, Roman Candles and Eat Your Makeup.

* Roman Candles ( 1966 ) as Smoking Nun

Roman Candles ( 1966 ) is a short film by Baltimore, Maryland, U. S. filmmaker John Waters starring Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary, Mink Stole, and Maelcum Soul.

Her film career began as a party guest in Waters ' film Roman Candles circa 1966.

* Roman Catholics, there is the Lady of Candles Parish located along Oliverio Street.

In 1864 it was recorded that the organising committee of the festival let off " 258 dozen fire crackers and numerous Roman Candles, Jack-in-box and sky rockets " The day after these celebrations, a ' Midsummer's Day ' fair took place on Penzance quay ; boat rides and other entertainments were included in these celebrations.

Included are the following: Baptist Student Movement, Canterbury Club ( Episcopal ), Christian Science Organization, Friends' Meeting for Worship, Hillel ( Jewish ), Liberal Religious Fellowship, Lutheran Student Association, Newman Club ( Roman Catholic ), Presbyterian Student Fellowship, United Student Fellowship ( Congregational-Baptist ), and Wesley Fellowship ( Methodist ).

Believing that God is the Author of this law and of all laws of nature, Roman Catholics believe that they are obliged to obey those laws, not frustrate or mock them.

As you approach the church on the Via D. Baullari you are passing within yards of the remains of the Roman Theatre of Pompey, near which is believed to have been the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated.

Standing before the tomb of Raphael, the great genius of the Renaissance, when shafts of sunlight are penetrating this great Roman temple, you are once again reminded of the varied civilizations so characteristic of Rome.

but my primary aim is to transcribe what Englishmen themselves are saying and writing and implying about the Roman and Anglican Churches and about the present religious state of England.

Most of these former churches are now used as warehouses, but `` neither Anglicans nor Nonconformists object to selling churches to Roman Catholics '', and have done so.

There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal ' a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire ; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town ; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins ; M ' Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis ; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.

* 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1, 500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

Arms of a Roman Catholic abbot are distinguished by a gold crozier with a veil attached and a black galero with twelve tassels ( the galero of a territorial abbot would be green )

The Nicene Creed and the shorter Apostles ' Creed are articles, or professions of Faith said by members of the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion.

Arianism is defined as those teachings attributed to Arius which are in opposition to mainstream Trinitarian Christological doctrine, as determined by the first two Ecumenical Councils and currently maintained by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and most Reformation Protestant Churches.

* Note that most ancient Roman sources are quite critical of Agrippina the Younger, because she was seen as stepping outside the conservative Roman ideals regarding the roles of women in society.

Since November 15, 1954, his relics are in a Roman sarcophagus in the crypt of the Dominican St. Andreas church in Cologne.

Hippolytus of Rome ( d. 235 ) is commonly considered to be the earliest antipope, as he headed a separate group within the Church in Rome against Pope Callixtus I. Hippolytus was reconciled to Callixtus's second successor, Pope Pontian, and both he and Pontian are honoured as saints by the Roman Catholic Church with a shared feast day on 13 August.

In Roman historiography, there are various accounts of Amazon raids in Asia Minor.

Ghubar numerals themselves are probably of Roman origin.

Sometimes, Roman numerals are still used for enumeration of lists ( as an alternative to alphabetical enumeration ), for sequential volumes, to differentiate monarchs or family members with the same first names, and ( in lower case ) to number pages in prefatory material in books.

Other monuments that have left almost nothing visible to the present day are the Chalkotheke, the Pandroseion, Pandion's sanctuary, Athena's altar, Zeus Polieus's sanctuary and, from Roman times, the circular temple of Augustus and Rome.

Supporters of this view believe that “ to a hypothetical outside reader, presents Christianity as enlightened, harmless, even beneficent .” Some believe that through this work, Luke intended to show the Roman Empire that the root of Christianity is within Judaism so that the Christians “ may receive the same freedom to practice their faith that the Roman Empire afforded the Jews .” Those who support the view of Luke ’ s work as political apology generally draw evidence from the facts that Christians are found innocent of committing any political crime ( Acts 25: 25 ; 19: 37 ; 19: 40 ) and that Roman officials ’ views towards Christians are generally positive.

The illegal use of elements of the Roman rite, the use of candles, vestments and incense, practices known as Ritualism, had become widespread and led to the Public Worship Regulation Act 1874 which established a new system of discipline, intending to bring the ' Romanisers ' into conformity.

Octavian complained that Antony had no authority for being in Egypt ; that his execution of Sextus Pompeius was illegal ; that his treachery to the king of Armenia disgraced the Roman name ; that he had not sent half the proceeds of the spoils to Rome according to his agreement ; that his connection with Cleopatra and the acknowledgment of Caesarion as a legitimate son of Julius Caesar were a degradation of his office and a menace to himself.

Before the Christian era, sodomy was not illegal in Greek or, most believe, in Roman law, between adult citizens, but homosexual acts between citizens were considered acceptable only under certain social circumstances.

* In response to the illegal exercise of citizen rights by foreigners, the Roman Senate passed the Lex Papia, which expelled all foreigners from Rome.

He was opposed to the parliamentary grant to the king of a revenue for life ; he promoted the treaty of alliance with the Dutch in August 1685 ; and he expostulated with the king on the subject of the illegal commissions in the army given to Roman Catholics.

Sextus Pompeius was caught in Miletus in 35 BC and executed without trial ( an illegal act since Sextus was a Roman citizen ) by order of Marcus Titius, Antony's minion.

Despite having been a moderate Republican as a County Supervisor and Mayor, as a talk show host and practicing Roman Catholic, he moved rightward by taking conservative stances on most political, economic, and social issues, especially opposition to illegal immigration, abortion, homosexuality, and equal rights under the law for homosexuals, even though he courted the gay / lesbian vote during his campaigns for County Supervisor and Mayor of San Diego, and in October 2011 endorsed fellow Republican and San Diego mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio, an openly gay member of the San Diego City Council.

In 296 he assisted the western Caesar Constantius Chlorus in re-establishing Roman rule in Britain following the illegal rules of Carausius and Allectus.

Catholicism was made illegal, and Roman Catholics were once more banned by law from practicing their religion and Roman Catholic priests risked death for performing their functions.

Fulton, and his lawyer Andrew Roman, argued that the Ontario Human Rights Code specifically permits facilities to serve a single sex on the grounds of public decency, and ordains that such restrictions do not constitute illegal discrimination.

Bruun finds this passage not sufficient, suggesting instead “ it seems baffling that the use of water, should have been connected to Clodia ’ s allegedly loose morals .” Again dispelling Cicero ’ s connection of Clodia to water and sexual immorality, Bruun proclaims this to be antithetical to Clodia ’ s case by stating, “ the evidence from the Roman world for ritual cleansing with water after sexual “ pollution ” is very meager and different in character .” Bruun argues within his next sub-point that more compelling evidence exists on Clodia ’ s immorality in connection with water in the late Roman Republican period, ultimately by providing an analysis on Marcus Caleius Rufus ’ speech on illegal water conduits.

Finding himself victorious, Symmachus proceeded to call a synod held at Rome on March 1, 499, which was attended by 72 bishops and all of the Roman clergy, with the aim of confirming that his congregation accepted the king's judgment, as well as ensuring in the future there would be no rioting or illegal canvassing at election time.

Among his legal works are two voluminous treatises De donationibus inter virum et uxorem ( on donations between husband and wife, which were illegal and void under Roman law ) and De jurisdictione ( on jurisdiction ).

This has been viewed as an attempt by her father to ensure the succession remained in his branch of the imperial family, while the heads of the other branches of the imperial family, the Princes Vsevolod Ioannovich of the ( Konstantinovichi ), Roman Petrovich of the ( Nikolaevichi ) and Prince Andrei Alexandrovich of the ( Mihailovichi ) declared that her father's actions were illegal.

In the Crucifix Decision the German Federal Constitution Court in 1995 decreed a law that insisted on the presence of religious symbols ( crucifixes ) in public institutions to be illegal, excluding in some Roman Catholic elementary schools.

After ordination he served in Rouen in Normandy where he made repeated entreaties to be sent to Scotland to minister to the few remaining Roman Catholics in the Glasgow area ( after 1560 it had become illegal to preach, proselytise for, or otherwise endorse Roman Catholicism ).

The Roman Catholic bishops continued to operate under their territorial titles on a civilly illegal basis.

Perhaps the best example of lesbianism being illegal comes from records of the late middle ages ( 1300-1500 ), more notably, laws created during the Inquisition in Spain and the Holy Roman Empire specifically mention lesbianism ( as well as male sodomy ).

From its first appearance to its legalization under Constantine, Christianity was an illegal religion in the eyes of the Roman state.