Saint Serf of Culross was associated with Nechtan's brother Bridei.

James Fisher has written that the first person recorded as feeding wild birds was the 6th century monk Saint Serf of Fife who tamed a robin by feeding it.

Saint Serf or Serbán ( Servanus ) ( ca.

Saint Serf is also somehow connected with Saint Mungo's Church near Simonburn, Northumberland ( off the Bellingham Road, north of Chollerford ).

Saint Serf is said to have founded the Scottish town of Culross.

Saint Serf is said to have been a contemporary of St. Mungo, also known as Saint Kentigern, though if he in fact lived at the same time as Adomnán, this is chronologically impossible.

She knew she had no home to go to, so she got into the boat ; it sailed her across the Firth of Forth to land at Culross where she was cared for by Saint Serf ; he became foster-father of her son, Saint Kentigern ( Saint Mungo ).

Originally the town served as a port city on the Firth of Forth and is believed to have been founded by Saint Serf during the 6th century.

She knew she had no home to go to, so she got into the boat ; it sailed her across the Firth of Forth to land at Culross where she was cared for by Saint Serf ; he became foster-father of her son, Saint Kentigern or Mungo ( d. 612 ).

Legend tells that Saint Serf ( fl.

In the following year he became provisional Principal of the Theological College of Saint Thomas ( from which he had just graduated ), and in 1903 his appointment was made permanent.

Saint Joseph, Abbot of Volokolamsk ( 1439 – 1515 ), wrote a number of influential works against heresy, and about monastic and liturgical discipline, and Christian philanthropy.

* On Saint Nicholas Day ( 6 December ), the Niklasmarkt ( Nicholas Market ) commemorates the Niklasspende, a medieval foundation for the poor.

A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the lance of Saint George ( patron saint of Catalonia, Gaudi's home ), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.

For a time he took into his family the young student Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam ( 1813 – 1853 ), one of the founders of the Conference of Charity, later known as the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul.

Aurelius Ambrosius, better known in English as Saint Ambrose ( c. 330 – 4 April 397 ), was an archbishop of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century.

As a result of the Treaty of Saint Petersburg ( 1875 ), the Kuril Islands were handed over to Japan, along with its Ainu subjects.

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

* Saint Elizabeth of Hungary ( 1207 – 10 November 1231 ), wife of Landgraf Louis IV of Thuringia

* Andronicus of Pannonia ( Saint Andronicus ), an Apostle of the Seventy mentioned in Romans 16: 7

* Andronicus, Probus, and Tarachus ( Saint Andronicus ), a 4th century martyr

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Saint Adalbert, Czech: ;, ( c. 956 – April 23, 997 ), Czech Roman Catholic saint, a Bishop of Prague and a missionary, was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians.

However, the presence of a vigorous population of Celtic lineage, principally of Irish origin, has supported the creation of other celebrations of beer, often for marketing purposes, such as Saint Patrick's Day ( Día de San Patricio ), patron of Ireland, which is celebrated with abundant libations.

Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement ( commonly called Mormonism ), in the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible ( called by some the " Inspired Version ", and published by the RLDS under that title ), declared the Adamic language to have been " pure and undefiled ".

By this time Naples seems to have become tired of his music ; the Romans, however, appreciated it better, and it was at the Teatro Capranica in Rome that he produced some of his finest operas ( Telemaco, 1718 ; Marco Attilio Regolò, 1719 ; La Griselda, 1721 ), as well as some noble specimens of church music, including a mass for chorus and orchestra, composed in honor of Saint Cecilia for Cardinal Acquaviva in 1721.

His well-known works include the Knight, Death, and the Devil ( 1513 ), Saint Jerome in his Study ( 1514 ) and Melencolia I ( 1514 ), which has been the subject of extensive analysis and interpretation.

He was soon producing some spectacular and original images, notably Nemesis ( 1502 ), The Sea Monster ( 1498 ), and Saint Eustace ( c. 1501 ), with a highly detailed landscape background and animals.

Saint Adelaide of Italy ( 931 / 932 – 16 December 999 ), also called Adelaide of Burgundy, was the second wife of Otto the Great, Holy Roman Emperor.

* Saint Athanasia of Aegina ( 9th century ), abbess and saint

He certainly corresponded with Elias III, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and possibly sent a mission to India in honour of Saint Thomas the Apostle, whose tomb was believed to lie in that country.

Bronze statue in Temple Square, Salt Lake City, representing Saint Peter | Peter, James, son of Zebedee | James, and John the Apostle | John in the act of conferring the Melchizedek priesthood to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery

While in Rome for Otto's imperial coronation, Bruno met Saint Adalbert of Prague, the first Apostle of the Prussians, killed a year later, which inspired Bruno to write a biography of St Adalbert when he reached the recently Christianized and consolidated Kingdom of Hungary himself.

Charles also did much to support Winfrid, later Saint Boniface, the " Apostle of the Germans.

Both the Patriarchate of Addis Ababa and all Ethiopia, and the Patriarchate of Asmara and all Eritrea do acknowledge the supremacy of honor and dignity of the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria on the basis that both Patriarchates were established by the Throne of Alexandria and that they have their roots in the Apostolic Church of Alexandria, and acknowledge that Saint Mark the Apostle is the founder of their Churches through the heritage and Apostolic evangelization of the Fathers of Alexandria.

* His full title is Pope and Lord Archbishop of the Great City of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Orthodox and Apostolic Throne of Saint Mark the Evangelist and Holy Apostle that is, in Egypt, Pentapolis, Libya, Nubia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and all Africa.

This is because Alexandria was the Capital of the Province, and the preaching center and the place of martyrdom of Saint Mark the Evangelist and Apostle.

The feast day of Saint John in the Roman Catholic Church, which calls him " Saint John, Apostle and Evangelist ", and in the Anglican Communion, which calls him " John, Apostle and Evangelist ", is on 27 December.

* " Saint John the Apostle.

* 844 – Battle of Clavijo: The Apostle Saint James the Greater is said to have miraculously appeared to a force of outnumbered Spanish rebels and aided them against the forces of the Emir of Cordoba.

In the Catholic Church, the Pope is regarded as the successor of Saint Peter, the Apostle.

The names " Holy See " and " Apostolic See " are ecclesiastical terminology for the ordinary jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome ( including the Roman Curia ); the pope's various honors, powers, and privileges within the Catholic Church and the international community derive from his Episcopate of Rome in lineal succession from the Apostle Saint Peter ( see Apostolic Succession ).

Since the papacy of Heraclas in the 3rd century, the Bishop of the Alexandria in both the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria continue to be called " Pope ", the former being called " Coptic Pope " or, more properly, " Pope and Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Orthodox and Apostolic Throne of Saint Mark the Evangelist and Holy Apostle " and the last called " Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa ".

The entry about him is as follows: " At Rome, commemoration of Saint Linus, Pope, who, according to Irenaeus, was the person to whom the blessed Apostles entrusted the episcopal care of the Church founded in the City, and whom blessed Paul the Apostle mentions as associated with him.

* Paul the Apostle ( c. 5 – c. 67 ), also known as Paul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Christian missionary and author of much of the New Testament

Paul the Apostle ( AD 5 – AD 67 ; variously referred to as " the Apostle Paul " or " Saint Paul "), also known as Saul of Tarsus, is perhaps the most influential early Christian missionary.

Saint Boniface () ( c. 7th century – 5 June 754 ), the Apostle of the Germans, born Winfrid, Wynfrith, or Wynfryth in the kingdom of Wessex, probably at Crediton ( now in Devon, England ), was a missionary who propagated Christianity in the Frankish Empire during the 8th century.

* June 29 – Saint Peter, Apostle and First Bishop of Rome

* February 3 – Saint Ansgar, Frankish missionary, " the Apostle of the North " ( b. 801 )

They based their new basilica on the original 4th-century ( since demolished ) Old Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, using the transept and crypt plan of that great pilgrimage church to frame their own saint as the " Apostle to the Germans ".