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.

* The Mystery of Unction Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Washington, DC

The nearby St John the Baptist Church of the same parish was originally built in the 13th century, with some of the original architecture still intact.

St John the Baptist Church

* St. John the Baptist School ( Aberdare )

The three Greek Orthodox chapels of St. James the Just, St. John the Baptist and of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, south of the rotunda and on the west side of the front courtyard originally formed the baptistery complex of the Constantinean church, the southern most chapel being the vestibule, the middle chapel being the actual baptistery and the north chapel being the chamber in which the patriarch chrismated the newly baptized before leading them into the rotunda north of this complex.

Dartmouth has one secondary school — formerly ( Dartmouth Community College ) now Dartmouth Academy — an all-through school for those aged 3 – 18, and two primary schools: ( Dartmouth Primary school ( now part of Dartmouth Academy ) and St John the Baptist R. C.

The local costumes are extremely picturesque, and are well seen on the day of St John the Baptist, the patron saint.

* Jung-Kellogg Library, library of Missouri Baptist University in St. Louis, Missouri

* Feast of the Birth of St. John the Baptist ( Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day in Quebec ) June 24.

** Nativity of St. John the Baptist

The first excavation at Tell as-Sultan was carried out in 1867, and the monasteries of St. George of Koziba and John the Baptist were refounded and completed in 1901 and 1904, respectively.

The Coptic Christian Orthodox Church also claim to hold the relics of St. John the Baptist.

A crypt and relics said to be John's and mentioned in 11th and 16th century manuscripts, were discovered in 1969 during restoration of the Church of St. Macarius at the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great in Scetes, Egypt ; Additional relics are claimed to reside in Gandzasar Monastery's Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, in Nagorno Karabakh ;

The church of St. John the Baptist in Sacrofano, a few miles north of Rome, claims to have his relics.

The High Renaissance collection includes Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Virgin and Child with St. Anne, St. John the Baptist, and Madonna of the Rocks.

St. John the Baptist ( Leonardo ) | John the Baptist.

Among his famous drawings are the Vitruvian Man, a study of the proportions of the human body, the Head of an Angel, for The Virgin of the Rocks in the Louvre, a botanical study of Star of Bethlehem and a large drawing ( 160 × 100 cm ) in black chalk on coloured paper of The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist in the National Gallery, London.

Syncretism also works the other way in Haitian Vodou and many Catholic saints have become Loa in their own right, most notably St. Philomena, St. Michael the Archangel, St. Jude, and St. John the Baptist.

Historically part of the parish of St Margaret in the county of Middlesex, the name Westminster was the ancient description for the area around Westminster Abbey – the West Minster, or monastery church, that gave the area its name – which has been the seat of the government of England ( and later the British government ) for almost a thousand years.

Two thousand troops under the command of Manuel de Montiano landed on St Simons Island.

It was during this visit that he witnessed a charity performance involving six thousand five hundred children singing in St Paul's Cathedral.

Housing several thousand patients at its peak, St. Elizabeths had a fully functioning medical-surgical unit and offered accredited internships and psychiatric residencies.

The outpost was six thousand miles from St. Petersburg and the journey itself ( the first time " so many gone so far ") had taken some three years.

Several hundred thousand reside in Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, St. Vincent, and French Guiana, an example being approximately 300, 000 Wayuu Arawak living in Colombia, with 150, 000 Wayuu in the neighbouring area of Venezuela.

Henri Le Caron, who, while acting as a secret agent of the British government, held the position of " Inspector-General of the Irish Republican Army ," asserts that he distributed fifteen thousand stands of arms and almost three million rounds of ammunition in the care of the many trusted men stationed between Ogdensburg, New York and St. Albans, Vermont, in preparation for the intended raid.

They reached and colonized any number of faraway islands, and St. Brendan is even speculated to have reached the New World a thousand years before Columbus.

And will that my executors pay forty thousand pounds in the terme of ten years, by yearly payments of four thousand pounds, the first payment thereof to begin and be made after the decease of my said two sisters for the building a library in Oxford and the purchaseing the house the houses between St Maries and the scholes in Catstreet where I intend the Library to be built, and when the said Library is built I give one hundred and fifty pounds per annum for ever to the Library Keeper thereof for the time being and one hundred pounds a year per annum for ever for buying books for the same Library.

In fact, in a letter written to an English friar in the 14th century, St. Catherine of Siena stated that the Judge of Arborea could provide two galleys and one thousand horsemen to fight in a crusade for ten years.

For, in about 1549, cart-loads of human bones were periodically brought here – some one thousand loads in total – to make space in St Paul's charnel house for new interments.

In 1924, they rented an apartment in the Faubourg St. Germain for six months from Princess Marthe Bibesco, a friend of Harry's cousin Walter Berry, for fifty thousand francs ( the equivalent of $ 2, 200, about $ in today's dollars.

It holds that the vitality of a church gains in proportion as its members not only revere and worship a Christ who lived two thousand years ago, but also strive to affirm in their lives the eternal Christ of whom St. John ( Chapter 8: 58 ) speaks: " Before Abraham was, I am.

" In 1874 as many as twelve thousand spectators, both black and white, swarmed to the shores of Lake Pontchartrain to catch a glimpse of Marie Laveau II performing her legendary rites on St. John's Eve ( June 23 – 24 ).

The king had given him a suite of rooms at Chambord, and a hundred thousand francs for the construction of a laboratory, and according to St. Germain the dyes discovered by the king would have a materially beneficial influence on the quality of French fabrics.

When the Church of St Luke's, near Kings Cross, was removed to make way for the construction of the Midland Railway Station, the estimated twelve thousand inhabitants of Somers Town at that time were deprived of that place of worship, as the Church was re-erected in Kentish Town.

Only a few thousand French migrated to Canada ; these habitants settled in villages along the St. Lawrence river, building communities that remained stable for long stretches ; they did not simply jump west the way the British did.

Ford's discontinuation of the Panther platform cars led to the closure of the St. Thomas plant in Canada and the loss of over a thousand jobs, as well as job losses at suppliers in the USA.

The name has been extremely popular in Europe since the Christian era as a result of it being given to St John the Baptist, St John the Evangelist and nearly one thousand other Christian saints.

The choir takes its name from Gerbert of Aurillac who was the abbot of the monastery of St. Columban in Bobbio around the year one thousand and later became Pope with the name of Sylvester II.

St Dunstan's, Stepney is an Anglican Church which stands on a site which has been used for Christian worship for over a thousand years.

Penzance ( Pensans ), or " holy headland " in the Cornish language, is a reference to the location of a chapel nowadays called St Anthony's that is said to have stood over a thousand years ago on the headland to the west of what became Penzance Harbour.