Category: Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St. James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.

While Dampier was captain of the St. George, Selkirk served on the galley Cinque Ports, the St. Georges companion, as a sailing master serving under Thomas Stradling.

The current most senior living descendant of the Electress Sophia who is ineligible to succeed due to the act is George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, the eldest son of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, who married the Roman Catholic Sylvana Palma Tomaselli in 1988 ; he would now be 29th in the lines of succession if he had not lost his place.

In 1535 he was in Vienna, where he painted the small panel of St. George in the Forest ( Laubwald mit dem Heiligen Georg ).

The Battle is now in the Alte Pinakothek, which has the best collection of Altdorfer's paintings, including also his small St. George and the Dragon ( 1510 ), in oil on parchment, where the two figures are tiny and almost submerged in the lush, dense forest that towers over them.

St. George and the Dragon ( Altdorfer ) | St. George in the Forest, 1510, Alte Pinakothek, Munich.

* Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George ( Honorary GCMG )-1891

Category: Honorary Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George

Aegina obtained money for her defences by the unwilling sacrifice of her cherished relic, the head of St. George, which had been carried there from Livadia by the Catalans.

Inscription over the entrance of St. George the Catholic in Paliachora.

On the 4th day Palaiochora fell, but the church of St George ( Latin church ) was spared.

Rosenblum Cellars Winery, Rock Wall Winery, and St. George Spirits are located at Alameda Point.

In December, 2007, St. George Absinthe Verte, produced by St. George Spirits became the first brand of American-made absinthe to be legally produced in the United States since a ban was enacted in 1912.

In 361, after the death of Emperor Constantius, shortly followed by the murder of the very unpopular Bishop George, the popular St Athanasius now had the opportunity to return to his patriarchate.

His famous series of sixteen great designs for the Apocalypse is dated 1498, as is his engraving of St. Michael Fighting the Dragon.

* St George and the Dragon ( c. 1431 ) -

The pub signboard | sign of The George, Southwark, depicting St George slaying a Dragon

The traditional legends have offered a historicised narration of George's encounter with a dragon: see " St. George and the Dragon " below.

* The Magic Sword, 1961 film loosely based on the legend of St. George and the Dragon

St. George and the Dragon in the South English Legendary ( East Midland Revision, c. 1400 ) Originally published in Saints ' Lives in Middle English Collections

* St. George and the Dragon, free illustrated book based on ' The Seven Champions ' by Richard Johnson ( 1596 )

* St. George and the Dragon: An Introduction

Amongst the contents of the museum are the tapestries of Grandmaster Fra Ramon Perellos de Roccaful, portraits of Grandmasters Fra Jean de la Cassiere, Fra Nicolas Cotoner and Fra Manuel Pinto da Fonseca and paintings that were once kept in the Co-Cathedral's many side chapels such as " St George killing the Dragon " by Francesco Potenzano.

The elegant St. George and the Dragon relief on the statue's base, executed in schiacciato ( also known as bas-relief or basso rilievo ) is one of the first examples of central-point perspective in sculpture.

More traditional pubs include the newly restored ' St George and the Dragon ' on the High Street, which has earned Fancyapint. com's top 5-pint rating.

Dragon Hill is a natural chalk hill with an artificial flat top, associated in legend with St George.

" She was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, St Mary's School, Ascot, and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford ; the last was also her mother's alma mater.

The sculpture St. George and the Dragon created by the German sculptor Bernt Notke in Storkyrkan in Stockholm was raised to commemorate the battle.

On the right wall is the fresco St Philip Driving the Dragon from the Temple of Hieropolis and in the lunette above it, the Crucifixion of St Philip.

A statue of St. George and the Dragon ( sculpted by Bernt Notke ) can be found in the Stockholm Cathedral, while Riddarholmskyrkan is the royal burial church.

Conques is also home to an arm of St. George the Dragon Slayer.

William Shakespeare refers to St. George and the Dragon in Richard III ; act v, also in King Lear ; act I.

St. George and the Dragon, wood sculpture by Bernt Notke in Stockholm's Storkyrkan

St. George and the Dragon, 13th-century mural, chapel of the former Knights Templar Commandry ( feudalism ) | commandery in Coulommiers, France

He was first deacon of church of St Bartholomew in his native Liège and was then appointed ( c. 1100 ) to St. Lambert's Cathedral.

His first signed works date to c. 1506, including engravings and drawings such the Stygmata of St. Francis and St.

St Athanasius ' long episcopate lasted 45 years ( c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373 ) of which over 17 years were spent in five exiles ordered by four different Roman Emperors, not counting approximately six more incidents in which he had to flee Alexandria for his own safety to escape people seeking to take his life.

The Vision of St Bernard, by Fra Bartolommeo, c. 1504 ( Uffizi ).

Hagia Sophia | St Sophia, c. 1000

The beginning of his episcopacy was remarkable for a prodigy by which is related by Socrates, Philostorgius, the chronicle of Alexandria, & c. St. Cyril, an eye-witness wrote immediately to the emperor Constantius, an exact account of this miraculous phenomenon: and his letter is quoted as a voucher for it by Sozomen, Theophanes, Eutychius, John of Nice, Glycas, and others.

File: Giovanni di paolo, St Catherine of Siena. jpg | Giovanni di Paolo, " St. Catherine of Siena ", c. 1475, oil on tempera.

Boston MFA. jpg |" The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine " by an unknown artist, c. 1340, in Boston.

File: Catherine of Siena Demons. jpg |" St Catherine and the Demons " by an unknown artist, c. 1500, tempera on panel.

There were also painted schemes in Basel ( the earliest dating from c. 1440 ); a series of paintings on canvas by Bernt Notke, in Lübeck ( 1463 ); the initial fragment of the original Bernt Notke painting ( accomplished at the end of the 15th century ) in the St Nicholas ' Church, Tallinn, Estonia ; the painting at the back wall of the chapel of Sv.

The famed apologist St. Justin Martyr ( c. 150 ) wrote: " No one else is permitted to partake of it, except one who believes our teaching to be true ...." For the first several hundred years, non-members were forbidden even to be present at the sacramental ritual ; visitors and catechumens ( those still undergoing instruction ) were dismissed halfway through the Liturgy, after the Bible readings and sermon but before the Eucharistic rite.

Biblical scholars are in general agreement that it was written by St. Paul to the church of Philippi, an early center of Christianity in Greece around 62 A. D. Other scholars argue for an earlier date, c. 50-60 A. D.

He also played organ at Philadelphia's Christ Church and composed or edited a number of hymns and psalms including: " A Collection of Psalm Tunes with a few Anthems and Hymns Some of them Entirely New, for the Use of the United Churches of Christ Church and St. Peter's Church in Philadelphia " ( 1763 ), " A psalm of thanksgiving, Adapted to the Solemnity of Easter: To be performed on Sunday, the 30th of March, 1766, at Christ Church, Philadelphia " ( 1766 ), and " The Psalms of David, with the Ten Commandments, Creed, Lord's Prayer, & c. in Metre " ( 1767 ).

In his Homilies Concerning the Statutes St. John Chrysostom ( 344 – 408 ) explicitly espoused the idea, based on his reading of Scripture, that the Earth floated on the waters gathered below the firmament, and St. Athanasius ( c. 293 – 373 ) expressed similar views in Against the Heathen.

* St Vergilius of Salzburg ( c. 700 – 784 ), in the middle of the eighth century, discussed or taught some geographical or cosmographical ideas which St Boniface found sufficiently objectionable that he complained about them to Pope Zachary.

The English term " Gnosticism " derives from the use of the Greek adjective gnostikos (" learned ", " intellectual ", Greek γνωστικός ) by St. Irenaeus ( c. 185 AD ) to describe the school of Valentinus as he legomene gnostike haeresis " the heresy called Learned ( gnostic )".

The Galatians were still speaking the Galatian language ( Gaulish ) in the time of St. Jerome ( 347 – 420 AD ), who wrote that the Galatians of Ancyra and the Treveri of Trier ( in what is now the German Rhineland ) spoke the same language ( Comentarii in Epistolam ad Galatos, 2. 3, composed c. 387 ).

Detail from the fifth panel of the Saint Vincent Panels | polyptych of St. Vincent by Nuno Gonçalves, c. 1470

The terms hesychia and Hesychast are used quite systematically in the Ladder of Divine Ascent of St John of Sinai ( 523 – 603 ) and in Pros Theodoulon by St Hesychios ( c.