John's chronicler António de Castilho said that " Dom João III faced problems easily, complementing his lack of culture with a practice formation that he always showed during his reign " ( Elogio d ' el rei D. João de Portugal, terceiro, do nome ).

His father had long suffered from lack of heirs, and the relatively new royal house of Braganza was indeed on the verge of going extinct — the king had only one surviving ( though sickly ) daughter from his first marriage, John's half-sister Isabel Luisa, Princess of Beira.

Church sources claim Orosius ' lack of fluency in Greek rendered him unconvincing and John's Eastern background made him more willing to accept that humans did not have inherent sinfulness.

Kim herself finds herself impressed by John's selflessness: however, she vocally criticizes him about his complete lack of teamwork and his tendency of put himself in the line of harm without asking for help or backup.

Friction between the band and Sub Pop, especially over Sub Pop's lack of promotion for the " Closed " EP, only served to heighten MacLeod's dissatisfaction, and she left Jale in early 1995 to join the St. John's, Newfoundland band The Hardship Post.

Following the sale of the Fog Devils, blame was pointed towards many factors ranging from the relationship between the City of St. John's, owners of Mile One Centre, and the Dobbin family, lack of parking at Mile One Centre and the inability to ice a team that placed in the top of the standings.

There has been some confusion and considerable debate on whether John's record is or is not the best-selling single in the world, due to a lack of information on sales for the record's main contender for the number-one spot, Bing Crosby's recording of " White Christmas ," because Crosby's recording was released before the advent of the modern-day US and UK singles charts.

So the Gospels ' description of John's death focuses on the final reason Herod had for arresting John, which was religious.

Rockwell and his wife were not very religious, although they were members of St. John's Wilmot Church, an Episcopal church near their home, and had their sons baptized there as well.

St John's College Choir has a tradition of religious music and has sung the daily services in the College Chapel since the 1670s.

Even after the political center moved to Heide, the St. John's in Meldorf remained the most important religious site in Dithmarschen.

Castles played a minimal role in the Glorious Revolution of 1688, although some fortifications such as Dover Castle were attacked by mobs unhappy with the religious beliefs of their Catholic governors, and the sieges of King John's Castle in Limerick formed part of the endgame to the war in Ireland.

It also had a strong religious theme, with John's dealings with the First of the Fallen, and some storylines, such as the relationship between an angel, Tali, and a succubus demon, Ellie, would go on to be used again as a major plot device in Preacher, one of his most popular works.

The genus name Hypericum is derived from the Greek words hyper ( above ) and eikon ( picture ), in reference to the traditional use of the plant to ward off evil, by hanging plants over a religious icon in the house during St John's day.

The Hill Museum and Manuscript Library at SJU is home to the Saint John's Bible ( the first hand-scribed bible in 500 years ) and a collection of religious sculpture, paintings, prints, and artifacts.

In this story full responsibility for John's death is given to Salome's mother Herodias and the priests who fear his religious power.

St. John's Chapel, designed by Richard Upjohn the architect of Trinity Church in New York City, served as the religious hub of the campus, replacing Polynomous, the original campus chapel.

St John's College, established in Manitoba has a strong Anglican religious affiliation.

In May 1202 Pope Innocent III wrote to Coutances, urging him to impose religious punishments on any rebels against King John's rule in the duchy of Normandy.

Towards the end of the 7th century, Saint Werburgh founded a religious institution on the present site of Chester's St John's Church which later became the first cathedral.

He bequeathed his estates to Cambridge University for the advancement and reward of religious learning, to be applied, first, to maintain two divinity scholars at St John's College, Cambridge ; secondly, to found a prize for a dissertation ; thirdly, to found and support the office of Christian advocate ; and fourthly, that of the Hulsean lecturer or Christian preacher.

He was a religious man who became the first official rector of St. Mary's Church and donated a estate in the village to St John's Abbey of Colchester.

Exhibits include religious art, historic and religious artifacts of the Basilica, pictures of bishops and archbishops of St. John's, and furniture and decorations of several period rooms in the Residence.

St. John's Church argued that the condemnation action substantially burdened its freedom of religious practice because " major tenet of its religious beliefs that the remains of those buried at the John's St. Johannes Cemetery must not be disturbed until Jesus Christ raises these remains on the ' Day of Resurrection '.

One year after Henry's death, John's mother deserted her sons and entered a religious community at Harmony, Pennsylvania, called the Rappites.

One of two fountains on the Ramsey, NJ campus. Mary, Help of Christians Chapel in St. John's Hall is the center of religious activity on campus.

The inclusion of a gesture similar to John's would increase the importance of a work with a religious conceit.

Another motive was John's conviction that it was only by making peace with France that it would be possible to release sufficient manpower to enforce his claim to the throne of Castile.

John's theology of chastity has been replaced by the editor's theology of outright celibacy, which makes little sense when John's true church is symbolised as a bride of the Lamb.

Most importantly, the editor has completely rewritten John's theology of the Millennium which is " emptied of all significance.

John Robinson in " Redating the New Testament " ( 1976 ) has heavily criticised Charles ' position and accepted apostolic authorship, dating John's Gospel before the Siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD.

Besides the New Testament, it has been alleged that Cathar sacred texts include The Gospel of the Secret Supper, or John's Interrogation and The Book of the Two Principles.

" It has been suggested that similarities between John's Gospel and Gnosticism may spring from common roots in Jewish Apocalyptic literature.

It has become generally accepted that certain sayings in John are as old or older than their synoptic counterparts, that John's knowledge of things around Jerusalem is often superior to the synoptics, and that his presentation of Jesus ' agony in the garden and the prior meeting held by the Jewish authorities are possibly more historically accurate than their synoptic parallels.

Recent evidences such as the pool and a turn away from the vestiges of positivism as evidenced by the growing number of books addressing the historicity of John reveal that the final word has not been said on how much of the historical Jesus inhabits John's gospel.

In the Gospel accounts of John's death, Herod has John imprisoned for denouncing his incestuous marriage, and later executes John by beheading.

Contemporary chroniclers were mostly critical of John's performance as king, and his reign has since been the subject of significant debate and periodic revision by historians from the 16th century onwards.

Historian Jim Bradbury has summarised the contemporary historical opinion of John's positive qualities, observing that John is today usually considered a " hard-working administrator, an able man, an able general ".

There has been increasing debate about the nature of John's Irish policies.

It has extremes of many kinds: some of the highest sea cliffs in the UK at St John's Head, which reach ; the impressive and famous sea stack, the Old Man of Hoy ; some of the most northerly surviving natural woodland in the British Isles ; the remote possibility that Arctic Char survive in Heldale Water and the most northerly Martello Towers, which were built to defend the area during the Napoleonic War, but were never used in combat.

Notably, St. John's Church, in ruins since World War II, has been restored.

Along with King's and St John's colleges, it has also provided several of the well known members of the Apostles, an intellectual secret society.

It has been argued that John's descriptions of the Jews ought to be read in context of the persecution of Christians in the New Testament.

As a child he has been portrayed by Dora Senior in the 1899 silent short King John ( 1899 ), a version of John's death scene from Shakespeare's King John, and by Rusty Livingstone in the 1984 BBC Television Shakespeare version of the play.

The Choir now records with Hyperion Records, and has released four discs to date with the label: one of the music of Mendelssohn, a collection of music for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, Christmas at St John's, a recording of the choral and vocal music of Jongen and Peeters and most recently, a collection of the music of Bairstow.

The English nobles swear allegiance to John's son Prince Henry, and the Bastard reflects that this episode has taught that internal bickering could be as perilous to England's fortunes as foreign invasion.

St. John's has two bus stations, the East Bus Station near the Botanical Gardens on Independence Ave and another one on Market St. near the Central Market.

Although there does not appear to be any nationally sanctioned " starting point " for the entire Trans-Canada Highway system, St. John's has adopted this designation for the section of highway running in the city by using the term " Mile One " for its sports stadium and convention centre complex, Mile One Centre.

It has been suggested that references to Axouch's possession of the imperial seal early in the reign of John's successor Manuel I meant that he was, in addition to his military duties, the head of the civil administration of the Empire.