Category: Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary

* Astrik or Saint Anastasius of Pannonhalma – ambassador of Stephen I of Hungary ( d. 1030 )

* Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stephen of Austria-Hungary-1905

Category: Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary

In 1113, Saint Stephen Harding had just succeeded him as third Abbot of Cîteaux when Bernard and thirty other young noblemen of Burgundy sought admission into the Cistercian order.

It may come from a custom in the late Roman / early Christian era, wherein metal boxes placed outside churches were used to collect special offerings tied to the Feast of Saint Stephen, which in the Western Church falls on the same day as Boxing Day.

Category: Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary

Category: Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary

If, as is widely thought, he is the author of the frescoes Stories of the Virgin and Story of Saint Stephen in the Cappella dell ' Assunta, Florence, then he would have visited nearby Prato sometime between 1435 and 1440.

Pope Saint Stephen I served as Bishop of Rome from 12 May 254 to 2 August 257.

St Stephen I's feast day in the Roman Catholic Church is celebrated on 2 August When in 1839 the new feast of St Alphonsus Mary de Liguori was assigned to 2 August, Saint Stephen I was mentioned only as a commemoration within the Mass of Saint Alphonsus.

The revision of the calendar in 1969 removed the mention of Saint Stephen I from the General Roman Calendar, but, according to the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, the 2 August Mass may now everywhere be that of Saint Stephen I, unless in some locality an obligatory celebration is assigned to that day, and some continue to use pre-1969 calendars that mention a commemoration of Saint Stephen I on that day.

Pope Saint Stephen I is the patron of Hvar.

Amalric died of dysentery ( allegedly brought on by " a surfeit of white mullet ") or even poisoned at Saint Jean d ' Acre on 1 April 1205, just after his son Amalric and four days before his wife, and was buried at Saint Sophia, Nicosia.

In the Japanese anime Saint Seiya the character, Shun, represents the Andromeda constellation using chains as his main weapons, reminiscent of Andromeda being chained before she was saved by Perseus.

Saint Anthony knew that the light must have come from God, and he asked God where was he before when the demons attacked him.

' There was a knight of Saint Omer's, retained in wages with the king of England, called sir Denis Morbeke, who had served the Englishmen five year before, because in his youth he had forfeited the realm of France for a murder that he did at Saint-Omer's.

Saint Dominic was to establish similar foundations at other university towns of the day, Bologna in 1218, Palencia and Montpellier in 1220, and Oxford just before his death in 1221.

Accompanied by a small number of Americans, he again set out, traveling through the countryside to Sorel, before turning to follow the Saint Lawrence River up toward Montreal, recruiting upwards of 200 men.

Other pilgrimage centres include Saint Francis Xavier's birthplace in Navarra, Church of Il Gesu, Rome, Malacca ( where he was buried for 2 years, before being brought to Goa ), Sancian ( Place of death ) etc.

Some villas such as Great Casterton in Rutland and Hucclecote in Gloucestershire had new mosaic floors laid around this time, suggesting that economic problems may have been limited and patchy, although many suffered some decay before being abandoned in the 5th century ; the story of Saint Patrick indicates that villas were still occupied until at least 430.

Saint Isidore introduced Aristotle to his countrymen long before the Arabs studied Greek philosophy extensively.

But before this he had already devoted to the Revelation another treatment, a rather arbitrary recasting of the commentary of Saint Victorinus, with whose chiliastic views he was not in accord, substituting for the chiliastic conclusion a spiritualizing exposition of his own, supplying an introduction, and making certain changes in the text.

The Tridentine Calendar also had on 6 May a feast of " St John before the Latin Gate ", associated with a tradition recounted by Saint Jerome that St John was brought to Rome during the reign of the Emperor Domitian, and was thrown in a vat of boiling oil, from which he was miraculously preserved unharmed.

In the Life of Saint Cadoc, written around 1100 or a little before by Lifris of Llancarfan, the saint gives protection to a man who killed three of Arthur's soldiers, and Arthur demands a herd of cattle as wergeld for his men.

Most football historians agree that a few schools, notably Saint Louis University ( under coach Eddie Cochems ), Michigan, Carlisle and Minnesota, had passing attacks in place before Rockne arrived at Notre Dame.

Jacobus de Voragine, compiling his Legenda Aurea ( Golden Legend ) before the competition arose, characterized Mary Magdalene as the emblem of penitence, washing the feet of Jesus with her copious tears ( although it is now believed that Mary of Bethany was the woman known for washing or anointing the feet of Jesus ) protectress of pilgrims to Jerusalem, daily lifting by angels at the meal hour in her fasting retreat and many other miraculous happenings in the genre of Romance, ending with her death in the oratory of Saint Maximin, all disingenuously claimed to have been drawn from the histories of Hegesippus and of Josephus.

Thietmar of Merseburg says that the first archbishop of Magdeburg, Saint Adalbert of Magdeburg, before being promoted to this high rank, was sent by Emperor Otto to the country of the Rus ' ( Rusciae ) as a simple bishop but was expelled by pagan allies of Svyatoslav I.

One Biblical periodization scheme commonly used in the Middle Ages was Saint Paul's theological division of history in to three ages: the first before the age of Moses ( under nature ); the second under Mosaic law ( under law ); the third in the age of Christ ( under grace ).

This event is believed to have led to Saint Urban being beaten and tortured before being sentenced to death by beheading.

* seated in a landscape as a young man ( Saint Valerian ) kneels before him and a priest holds a book.

Saint Andrew's cross-country coach John O ' Connell, a 2: 48 masters marathoner, will hit the ice baths before the ibuprofen.

Like many before him, Richard travelled to Paris in search of a good education and became a canon of the Augustinian Abbey of Saint Victor on account of its reputation for piety and learning.

All four canonical gospels state that, during the Last Supper, Jesus foretold of Peter ’ s denial ( Saint Peter ) and that he would deny Christ three times before the cock ’ s crow.

* Saint Piran ' rediscovered ' tin-smelting ( tin had been smelted in Cornwall since before the Romans ' arrival, but the methods had since been lost ) when his black hearthstone, which was evidently a slab of tin-bearing ore, had the tin smelt out of it and rise to the top in the form of a white cross ( thus the image on the flag ).

The origins of The Saint can be found in early works by Charteris, some of which predated the first Saint novel, 1928's Meet – The Tiger !, or were written after it but before Charteris committed to writing a Saint series.

* 30 CE: The first Christian martyr ( Protomartyr ) Saint Stephen stoned to death following Sanhedrin trial.

Saint Nicodemus was a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin, who, according to the Gospel of John, showed favour to Jesus.

In this passage, Saint Peter and the other apostles are described as being prosecuted by the Sanhedrin for continuing to preach the Gospel, despite the Jewish authorities having previously prohibited it.

Saint Stephen was tried by a Sanhedrin ( Jewish Supreme Court ) for blasphemy against Moses and God and was stoned to death, under the watch of Paul of Tarsus, before his conversion.

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

Unlike in many other Christian countries, St. Nicholas does not play a major role in Polish Christmas, but instead, is celebrated on his Saint feast day of December 6.

* Saint Nicholas Day in Greece ( December 6 )

Saint Paul wrote ' For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil :' ( 1 Timothy 6: 10 ( ASV )).

* the Order of Saint George, founded by Charles I of Hungary in 1325 / 6

The ice thickness is 0. 3 – 0. 4 m within Saint Petersburg and 0. 5 – 0. 6 m in other areas.

* For travel to the French islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon directly from Canada, Canadians and foreign nationals holding Canadian identification documents are exempted from passport and visa requirements for stays of maximum duration of 3 months within a period of 6 months.

He is not to be confused with another Saint Agapetus, an Early Christian martyr with the feast day of 6 August.

Pope Sixtus II or Pope Saint Sixtus II ( a corruption of Greek, Xystus, " polished ") was pope from 30 August 257 to 6 August 258.

Pope Saint Julius I, was pope from 6 February 337 to 12 April 352.

* Saint Petersburg Metro – 5 lines, 63 stations, 105. 6 km

In 1998, Saint Helena's energy production was 6 GWh, matching its consumption, of which 90 % was produced by fossil fuels and the remaining 10 % by wind turbines.

Saint Helena received $ 12. 6 million in aid in 1995, and in 1997, $ 5. 3 million from the United Kingdom.

* April 6 – Joseph Smith and 5 others organize the Church of Christ ( later renamed the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ), the first formally organized church of the Latter Day Saint movement, in northwestern New York.

* April 6 – Saint Peter of Verona is assassinated by Carino of Balsamo.

* March 6 – Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint ( b. 1235 )

* April 6 – Saint Peter of Verona

* April 6 – Saint Methodius, bishop and Bible translator

* 6 October – Saint Nicetas the Patrician, Byzantine official and iconophile monk ( b. 761 / 2 )

* August 6 – Saint Dominic, Spanish founder of the Dominicans ( b. 1170 )

* 1273 – December 6 – Saint Thomas Aquinas quits his writing of Summa Theologica — a work considered within the Roman Catholic Church to be the paramount expression of its theology — leaving it unfinished after having a mystical experience during Mass.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are described in the last book of the New Testament of the Bible, called the Book of Revelation of Jesus Christ to Saint John the Evangelist at 6: 1-8.

* June 6 – Saint Norbert, founder of the Norbertine order of canons