In Gregory ’ s day, history was not recognized as an independent field of study ; it was a branch of grammar or rhetoric, and historia ( defined as ‘ story ’) summed up the approach of the learned when they wrote what was, at that time, considered ‘ history .’ Gregory ’ s Dialogues Book Two, then, an authentic medieval hagiography cast as a conversation between the Pope and his deacon Peter, is designed to teach spiritual lessons.

Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

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On Palm Sunday, 1084, Henry IV solemnly enthroned Clement at St. Peter ’ s Basilica and on Easter Day, Clement returned the favor and crowned Henry IV as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.

Antipope Clement III still occupied St. Peter ’ s.

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One of Bede ’ s correspondents was Albinus, who was abbot of the monastery of St. Peter and St. Paul ( subsequently renamed St. Augustine's ) in Canterbury.

Many scholars also doubt Petrine authorship because they are convinced that 1 Peter is dependent on the Pauline epistles and that is was written after Paul ’ s ministry because it shares many of the same motifs espoused in Ephesians, Colossians, and the Pastoral Epistles.

There are other scholars who explicitly dispute the idea of contextualizing 1 Peter within Domitian ’ s reign.

Duane Warden believes that Domitian ’ s unpopularity even among Romans renders it highly unlikely that his actions would have great influence in the provinces, especially those under the direct supervision of the senate such as Asia ( one of the provinces 1 Peter is addressed to ).

In addition, many scholars in support of this theory believe that there is content within 1 Peter that directly mirrors the situation as portrayed in Pliny ’ s letter.

Shooting began on March 16, 1959 with Anita Ekberg climbing the stairs to the cupola of Saint Peter ’ s in a mammoth décor constructed at Cinecittà.

Ma ’ amselle ,’ said Peter.

In 1987 Peter de Savary purchased Land ’ s End for almost £ 7 million from David Goldstone.

President Hifikepunye Pohamba suspended Lieutenant General Martin Shalli from his post as Chief of Defence Force in 2009 over corruption allegations, dating back to the time when Shalli served as Namibia ’ s High Commissioner to Zambia .. During the time of the suspension, Peter Nambundunga acted as Chief.

Many of Peter ’ s recipes have been found surprisingly effective by contemporary research, and it is believed that women in antiquity had more control over their reproduction than previously believed.

Then in 725, upon Donatus ’ death, the Grado patriarchate was usurped by Peter, the Bishop of Pola.

Gregory responded by depriving Peter of both sees, and he wrote to the people of the diocese, reminding them to only elect bishops in accordance with church law, whereupon they elected Antoninus, with Gregory ’ s approval.

Gregory died on 11 February 731, and was buried in St. Peter ’ s Basilica.

He ordered to be erected in the heart of St. Peter ’ s Basilica an iconostasis, situated between six onyx and marble columns which had been sent to Gregory as a gift from the exarch Eutychius.

He also built a new oratory in St. Peter ’ s Basilica, which housed the relics of a number of saints, and convoked a synod in 732 in order to regulate the prayers and masses to be said there.

He was buried in St. Peter ’ s Basilica, in the oratory he had built at the start of his pontificate.

He rebuilt the atrium of St. Peter ’ s Basilica, and within the newly decorated chapel within the basilica he transferred the body of Saint Gregory, and from the Catacombs of Rome, he moved Saint Sebastian, Saint Tiburtius, and Saint Gorgonius.

On January 25, 844, Gregory IV died, and was buried in St. Peter ’ s Basilica.

In the New Testament, his prophecy of the outpouring of God ′ s Holy Spirit upon all people was notably quoted by the apostle Peter in his Pentecost sermon ().

Peter signed his consent for 19-year old John " Weissmuller "' s passport application in 1924, preceding Johnny's Olympic competition in France.

They have seized the very means set aside to furnish funds for the lights ever kept burning at St. Peter s tomb, and they have carried off offerings that have been made by you and by those who have gone before you.

Other talented individuals included Tribonian, his legal adviser ; Peter the Patrician, the diplomat and longtime head of the palace bureaucracy ; his finance ministers John the Cappadocian and Peter Barsymes, who managed to collect taxes more efficiently than any before, thereby funding Justinian's wars ; and finally, his prodigiously talented generals Belisarius and Narses.

According to the general interpretation John was also that " other disciple " who with Peter followed Christ after the arrest into the palace of the high-priest ( John 18: 15 ). Saint John alone remained near his beloved Master at the foot of the Cross on Calvary with the Mother of Jesus and the pious women, and took the desolate Mother into his care as the last legacy of Christ ( John 19: 25-27 ).

After the arrest of Jesus, Peter and the " other disciple " ( according to Sacred Tradition, John ) followed him into the palace of the high-priest.

The sales continued to denude the palace: Raphael's " Ansidei Madonna " was sold for £ 70, 000 ; Van Dyck ’ s equestrian painting of Charles I realised £ 17, 500 ; and finally the " piece de resistance " of the collection, Peter Paul Rubens Rubens, His Wife Helena Fourment, and Their Son Peter Paul, which had been given by the city of Brussels to the 1st Duke in 1704, was also sold, and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Menshikov, who took possession of Peter II and lodged him in his own palace on the Vasilievsky Island, had intended to marry Peter to his daughter Maria.

She promoted the caïd Peter, a Moslem convert and a eunuch, much to the annoyance of many a highborn nobleman or palace intimate.

Mansfeld was an illegitimate son of Graf Peter Ernst von Mansfeld, and passed his early years in his father's palace at Luxembourg.

The future Empress Elizabeth Petrovna was born in the palace in 1709, and Tsar Peter the Great spent part of his youth here.

Eventually, the young prince, together with his mentor Mithradates, left the palace and escaped to make a pilgrimage to Palestine, where he became a monk at Jerusalem under the name of Peter.

Grigory Orlov, one of Catherine's lovers, led a palace coup in June 1762 that ousted Peter III and enthroned Catherine II.

Humbert, Frederick of Lorraine, and Peter, Archbishop of Amalfi, arrived in April 1054 and were met with a hostile reception ; they stormed out of the palace, leaving the papal response with Michael, who in turn was even more angered by their actions.

Image: Peter Paul Rubens 050. jpg | Coronation of Marie de ' Medici in Saint-Denis ( detail ), by Peter Paul Rubens, 1622 – 1625 ( one of the famous series of paintings Marie de Médicis had commissioned for the palace that she built )

On reaching Algiers, and after meeting the Consul, Sir Peter Clifford, and his wife, Maturin and Jacob attend an interview with the Dey's Vizier at Kasbah, the Dey's palace.

The name " Montezuma " was first used in 1806 when Dr. Peter Clark named his hilltop home " Montezuma " after the palace of the Aztec Emperor Montezuma in Mexico City.

In 1714, Peter began construction of the Monplaisir (" my pleasure ") Palace based on his own sketches of the palace that he wanted close to the shoreline.

On the walls of this seacoast palace hung hundreds of paintings that Peter brought from Europe and allowed to weather Russian winters without heat together with the dampness of being so close to the sea.

Peter had also entertained plans of a similar palace at Strelna, a short way to the east, but these plans were abandoned.

Later the whole complex was renewed by Charles IV and new fortifications, with two gates and a royal palace were built, while the palace of Saints Peter and Paul awaited repair.

* Peterhof Palace, the palace of Peter the Great located in Peterhof ( Saint Petersburg )