A similar figure with the same name ( in other languages ) exists in several other countries, including France ( Père Noël ), Spain ( Papá Noel, Padre Noel ), almost all Hispanic South America ( Papá Noel ), Brazil ( Papai Noel ), Portugal ( Pai Natal ), Italy ( Babbo Natale ), Armenia ( Kaghand Papik ), India ( Christmas Father ), Andorra ( Pare Noel ), Romania ( Moş Crăciun ) and Turkey ( Noel Baba ).

In Spanish and Italian, " Beatísimo / Beatissimo Padre " ( Most Blessed Father ) is often used in preference to " Santísimo / Santissimo Padre " ( Most Holy Father ).

The title Padre della patria (= Father of the Fatherland ) was suggested for him, precisely with reference to these sixteen children of his.

* In El crimen del Padre Amaro ( The Crime of Father Amaro ) ( 2002 ), a Mexican film ( script by Vicente Leñero, based on the homonymous novel written in 1875 by José Maria de Eça de Queiroz ) about a sexual relationship between a priest and a girl, father Amaro recites it to his lover during their nocturnal meetings.

Examples include Santa Barbara, which contains Alameda Padre Serra ( Father Serra's Street ), running from Mission Santa Barbara along the base of the Riviera, the hill overlooking the city ; Serra Cross Park in Ventura, site of the cross Serra erected at Mission San Buenaventura's founding ; and San Diego, in which Father Junipero Serra Trail runs through the Mission Trails Regional Park to Santee.

Nearer to town, and directly east and adjacent to Mission Santa Barbara, is a hill known locally as the " Riviera ," traversed by " Alameda Padre Serra " ( shortened APS ), " Father Serra's pathway.

While he was in the pueblo of Isleta, he met his long term friends Father Anton Docher, The Padre of Isleta and Charles Fletcher Lummis.

At the center, José Matías Delgado, a Salvadoran priest and doctor known as El Padre de la Patria Salvadoreña ( The Father of the Salvadoran Fatherland ).

Anak ni Padre Dámaso ( child of Father Dámaso ), alluding to a character in one of José Rizal's novels, became a cliché or stereotype to refer to an illegitimate child, especially that of a priest.

The title word, Padre is a double entendre as Father can mean a Catholic priest.

Other poetes: The King D. Dinis ( Denis of Portugal ) and the writer Eça de Queiroz who wrote his first realist novel, O Crime do Padre Amaro (" The Sin of Father Amaro "), which is set in the city and was first published in 1875.

Jupiter is described as the " Father " (" Padre "-archaic Portuguese for father ) that " vibrates the fierce rays of Vulcan " (" vibra os feros raios de Vulcano "), presides from a " crystalline seat of stars " (" assento de estrelas cristalino "), carrying " a gleaming crown and sceptre / of another rock clearer than diamond " (" hua coroa e ceptro rutilante / de outra pedra mais clara que diamante ".

*" Padre Nuestro ( Our Father )" on Red Hot + Latin: Silencio = Muerte

Most recently, several Mexican movies starring Gael García Bernal have enjoyed great popularity, including Amores perros ( 2000 ), Y tu mamá también ( 2001 ), the polemical El crimen del Padre Amaro ( The Crime of Father Amaro ) ( 2002 ), and the Latin American film, The Motorcycle Diaries ( 2004 ).

As he grew into his teens, the majority of Sánchez's album titles began to revolve around the loss of his father-such as La Corona de Mi Padre ( My Father's Crown ), and Homenaje a Mi Padre ( Homage to My Father ).

His most famous works include Os Maias ( The Maias ) ( 1878 ), O Crime do Padre Amaro ( The Crime of Father Amaro ) ( 1876 ) and O Primo Bazilio ( Cousin Basílio ) ( 1878 ).

In 2002, the Mexican director Carlos Carrera made a motion picture, " El Crimen del Padre Amaro " (" The Crime of Father Amaro "), adapted from Queirós ' novel.

Since the Grito galvanized a burgeoning nationalist movement among Puerto Ricans, Betances is also considered " El Padre de la Patria " ( Father of the Puerto Rican Nation ).

The subject of Flying Padre is a Catholic priest in rural New Mexico, Father Fred Stadtmuller.

* September 25 – Mission Santa Cruz is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the 12th mission in the California mission chain.

* October 9 – Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the 13th mission in the California mission chain.

* December 8 – Mission La Purisima Concepcion is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the 11 mission in the California mission chain.

* December 4 – Mission Santa Barbara is founded by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, becoming the 10th mission in the California mission chain.

Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén took up Serra's work and established nine more mission sites, from 1786 through 1798 ; others established the last three compounds, along with at least five asistencias ( mission assistance outposts ).

* Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén ( 1785 – 1803 )

One of the best known of the Alta California missions ( and one of the few missions to have actually been founded twice — others being Mission San Gabriel Arcángel and Mission La Purísima Concepción )— the site was originally consecrated on October 30, 1775, by Father Fermín Lasuén, but was quickly abandoned due to unrest among the indigenous population in San Diego.

The grounds were consecrated by Father Fermín Lasuén of Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo on October 30, 1775 ( the last day of the octave after the feast of San Juan Capistrano ), near an Indian settlement named Sajavit ; thus, La Misión de San Juan Capistrano de Sajavit was founded.

Mission San Fernando Rey de España was founded on September 8, 1797 by Father Fermín Lasuén, making it the fourth mission site he had established in as many months.

The tribe was named Luiseño by the Spanish due to their proximity to the Mission San Luís Rey de Francia (" The Mission of Saint Louis King of France ," known as the " King of the Missions "), which was founded on June 13, 1798 by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, in what was the First Military District in what now is Oceanside, California, in northern San Diego County.

) Known as the " King of the Missions ," it was founded on June 13, 1798 by Father Fermín Francisco de Lasuén, located in what is now Oceanside, California, in northern San Diego County.

Francesco Lana de Terzi, a 17th century Jesuit professor of physics and mathematics from Brescia, Lombardy, has been referred to as the Father of Aeronautics.

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier is considered the " Father of Modern Chemistry ".

Charles Marie de La Condamine, seven months later, was able to give to the Académie française an account of Father Roman's voyage, and thus confirm the existence of this waterway, first reported by Father Acuña in 1639.

Golb argues that the primary research on the Qumran documents and ruins ( by Father Roland de Vaux, from the École Biblique et Archéologique de Jérusalem ) lacked scientific method, and drew wrong conclusions that comfortably entered the academic canon.

In 1533 he was allowed to accompany Dom Martinho de Portugal to Rome on an embassy to Pope Clement VII, to whom Father Álvares delivered the letter Lebna Dengel had written to the Pope.

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Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ( 1950 ), Raymond Briggs's Father Christmas ( 1973 ) and the translation from French of Jean de Brunhoff's Babar and Father Christmas ( originally Babar et le père Noël, 1941 ).

* 1769 – Father Junípero Serra founds California's first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá.

* 26 March-Michael Dudok de Wit wins an Academy Award ( Short film / animated ) for Father and Daughter

* 1776 – Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is now San Francisco, California.

The arrival of Father Pedro Fernández de la Torre on April 2, 1556, as the first bishop of Asunción marked the establishment of the Roman Catholic Church in Paraguay.

* 1810 – With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.

* June 3 – Gaspar de Portolà and Father Junípero Serra establish Monterey, the presidio of Alta California territory for Spain from 1777 – 1822, United Mexican States 1824 – 1846, until the California Republic.

* January 15 – After overwintering with the Huron Indians, Samuel de Champlain and Recollect Father Joseph Le Caron visit the Petun and Ottawa Indians of the Great Lakes.

* July 16 – Father Junípero Serra founds Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first of the 21 California missions.