St. Francis is the principal patron of the town, together with Mary ( mother of Jesus ) | Our Lady of Escalera.

Sergius III owed his rise to the power of his new patron Theophylact, and quickly rewarded him with the position of sacri palatii vestararius, the principal official at the top of papal patronage in control of the disbursements, and thus of patronage.

Dudley was a principal patron of the arts, literature, and the Elizabethan theatre.

He was a principal patron of Nicholas Hilliard, as well as interested in all aspects of Italian culture.

Hatton provided him with hospitality and became his principal patron.

The network became a principal patron of the arts.

Having been on errands abroad, he was made one of the king's principal secretaries in 1540 ( a position he held jointly with Sir Ralph Sadler ), and was knighted in the same year ; in spite of the fall of his patron, Thomas Cromwell, he rose higher and higher in the royal favour, and in 1542 it was said that he governed almost everything in England.

In addition, PRCUA is the principal patron of the Polish Museum of America, the largest ethnic museum in America located in Chicago, Illinois.

Like his brother, Ambrose Dudley invested in exploration and privateering voyages ; in Martin Frobisher's 1576 search for the Northwest Passage he was the principal patron, although he contributed only the relatively modest sum of £ 50.

The Guadalupe River was named by the De Anza Expedition on March 30, 1776, Rio de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, in honor of the Mexican saint who was the principal patron saint of the expedition.

In 1704 the house passed to the ten-year-old Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, who was to become the principal patron of the Palladian movement in England, and an architect in his own right.

The islet's isolation, at some distance from the principal islands forming the actual city of Venice, made it an ideal location for the quarantine station and leper colony founded there in the twelfth century, receiving its name from St. Lazarus, patron saint of lepers.

He was the principal patron of Antoine Watteau, who painted for his dining room, a suite of Four Seasons, and of other early Rococo artists.

It is the only official society working in the college with patron as principal himself.

The schools are generally managed by a Board of Management or less often a patron or religious institute with a principal in general control of everyday business.

Since 1616 it was the religious center of the parish of the Fajãs, a Catholic organ whose principal patron was Nossa Senhora dos Remédios, that included Ponta, Fajã Grande, Caldeira and Mosteiro.

In January 1674, Prideaux recorded in his letters a visit to his home of William Levett ; with Levett came Lord Cornbury, son of the Earl of Clarendon, Levett's principal patron.

This was to become the political centre of the Timurid empire, and residence of his principal successors, though both cities benefited from the wealth and privilege of Shāhrukh's court, which was a great patron of the arts and sciences.

St. Lucius is venerated as the principal patron of the diocese.

The 3rd Earl of Burlington, who was the principal patron of the Palladian movement in England and himself a noted architect, had alterations made to Londesborough by William Kent in the 1720s.

* Saint Arsenius of Corfu, first bishop of Corfu, ( d. 800 AD or perhaps 959 AD ) one of the principal patron saints of Corfu

He was also the principal patron of the satirist and journalist William Gifford.

Cabot had always been interested in making a voyage to Asia through the Arctic, and for this purpose King Edward VI chartered an association of English merchants, the Company of Merchant Adventurers in 1552-1553, with the Duke of Northumberland as principal patron.

Given that the Mother of God outranks St. Peter of Alcantara in the hierarchy of the saints, with the proclamation of the Virgin of Aparecida as Queen and Patroness of Brazil, the blessed Virgin Mary became the Nation's principal heavenly patron, and the Franciscan saint became the secondary patron.

Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.

But when the situation was so complicated that even Nogaret, one of the principal actors in the drama, could misinterpret the pope's motives, it is possible that Othon and his companions, equally baffled, attributed their difficulties to a more immediate cause.

Of course the principal factor in the whole experience was the kind of education he received.

More, the U.S. action was hailed by a principal opposition leader, Dr. Juan Bosch, as having saved `` many lives and many troubles in the near future ''.

Two of the principal addresses were delivered by prominent Protestants, and when the speaker was a Catholic, one `` discussant '' on the dais tended to be of another religious persuasion.

But in the moment of truth everyone could see that the U.S. was in reality the principal.

His teacher and his school principal were conferred with and everyone agreed that, if he kept up with a certain amount of work at home, there was little danger of his losing a term.

The principal theme of Thomas's poetry was the ambivalence of birth and death -- the pain of blood-stained creation.

For southeastern Louisiana, Mobile was the principal post, and it was to furnish supplies for trade to the north and east, in the region threatened by British traders.

On the middle Mississippi a principal post was to be located near the mouth of the Arkansas.

Each of the five principal posts was to have a director, responsible to a director-general at New Orleans.

The principal mauler, however, was Senator Joseph McCarthy.

The principal tactic in controlling the ball was giving it to Abner Haynes, the flashy halfback.

There was also the fact that by the time he meets Mr. Khrushchev, the President will have completed conversations with all the other principal Allied leaders.

South Philadelphia High's principal added that the current delay was caused by the `` pressure '' of a movie that the toneless lad was making.

William Joseph Slim, First Viscount Slim, former Governor General of Australia, was the principal British commander in the field during the Burma War.

Ships from the West Coast rotated on six-month tours of duty with the Seventh Fleet, and Yokosuka was the Seventh Fleet's principal port for maintenance, upkeep and shore liberty.

Apollo was worshipped as Actiacus ( ; Ἄκτιακός, Aktiakos, literally " Actian "), Delphinius ( ; Δελφίνιος, Delphinios, literally " Delphic "), and Pythius ( ; Πύθιος, Puthios, from Πυθώ, Pūthō, the area around Delphi ), after Actium ( Ἄκτιον ) and Delphi ( Δελφοί ) respectively, two of his principal places of worship.

But once Milne had, in his own words, " said goodbye to all that in 70, 000 words " ( the approximate length of his four principal children's books ), he had no intention of producing any reworkings lacking in originality, given that one of the sources of inspiration, his son, was growing older.

In process of time the title abbot was extended to clerics who had no connection with the monastic system, as to the principal of a body of parochial clergy ; and under the Carolingians to the chief chaplain of the king,, or military chaplain of the emperor, It even came to be adopted by purely secular officials.

Her daughter, born from her head as she was from Zeus's, demigod Annabeth Chase is one of the principal characters.

The last and principal acquisition was that of Toftfield ( afterwards named Huntlyburn ), purchased in 1817.