A little farther along the road you come to the Church of Santa Sabina, called the `` Pearl of the Aventine ''.

Retrace your steps a few yards on the Via Di Santa Sabina and turn right on the Via Di S. Alessio, a street lined with stately homes.

:: M. Vibia Aurelia Sabina ( 170-before 217 ), died without issue

According to Tacitus, in 58, Nero became involved with the noble woman Poppaea Sabina.

In 1219 Pope Honorius III invited Saint Dominic and his companions to taken up residence at the ancient Roman basilica of Santa Sabina, which they did by early 1220.

The official foundation of the Dominican convent at Santa Sabina with its studium conventuale occurred with the legal transfer of property from Honorius III to the Order of Preachers on June 5, 1222.

Towards the end of 1356 Albornoz was appointed as bishop of Sabina.

* Sabina of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 12 May 1529 – 2 November 1575 ) married John George, Elector of Brandenburg.

According to Sabina Magliocco, Gerald Gardner says ( in 1959's The Meaning of Witchcraft ) that The Horned God is an Under-god, a mediator between an unknowable supreme deity and the people.

* 138 – Emperor Hadrian dies after a heart failure at Baiae ; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.

Secondly, he married Margravine Sabina of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 12 May 1529 – 2 November 1575 ), daughter of George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, in 1548.

The first of these is private antiquities, best represented by his Sabina, or morning scenes in the dressing room of a wealthy Roman lady (; 1803, 2 vols.

Folklorist Sabina Magliocco supported this idea, noting that a great many of those Californian Pagans whom she interviewed claimed that they had been greatly interested in mythology and folklore as children, imagining a world of " enchanted nature and magical transformations, filled with lords and ladies, witches and wizards, and humble but often wise peasants.

The folklorist Sabina Magliocco came to a somewhat different conclusion based upon her ethnographic research of pagans in California, remarking that the majority were " white, middle-class, well-educated urbanites " but that they were united in finding " artistic inspiration " within " folk and indigenous spiritual traditions.

This friendship was brought to an end in 58 because of his wife, the noblewoman Poppaea Sabina.

Palazzo Orsini in Fara Sabina, northern Lazio, central Italy.

In 1127 or 1128 Pope Honorius II promoted him to the suburbicarian See of Sabina.

In September 1044 the opposition forced him out of the city again and elected John, Bishop of Sabina, as Pope Sylvester III.

His rise was rapid: in 1257, he was appointed Bishop of Le Puy ; in 1259, he was appointed Archbishop of Narbonne ; and in December 1261, he became the first cardinal created by Pope Urban IV, for the See of Sabina.

In 1238 he was made cardinal bishop of Sabina.

The cardinal bishop of Sabina was finally elected Pope Celestine IV by seven cardinals only on 25 October 1241.

John, Bishop of Sabina, had been hailed as Pope Sylvester III by the faction of the nobility that had driven Benedict IX from Rome in 1044, and had then installed him in his place.

Though Benedict IX soon returned, and forced Sylvester III to retire to his See of Sabina, he never gave up his claims to the papal throne, and through his political allies contrived apparently to keep some hold on a portion of Rome.

The name of Sixtus is often connected with a great building boom in Rome: Santa Sabina on the Aventine Hill was dedicated during his pontificate and he built Santa Maria Maggiore, whose dedication to Mary the Mother of God reflected his acceptance of the Ecumenical council of Ephesus which closed in 431.

When Pope Benedict IX was driven from Rome in September 1044, John, bishop of Sabina, was elected after fierce and protracted infighting.

Extensive horizontal mesas are capped by sedimentary formations and support woodlands of junipers, pinon, and ponderosa pines, each favoring different elevations.

In junipers ( the primary hosts ) ( see photo ), some species of the fungus form a ball like gall about 2 – 4 cm in diameter which produces a set of orange tentacle-like spore tubes called telial horns.

The fungus does not cause serious damage to junipers, but apple and pear trees can suffer serious loss of fruit production due to the effects of the fungus.

The severity of Cedar-apple rust disease can be managed by removal of basidiospore producing galls from junipers or the application of protective fungicides to junipers.

Underwater archaeology of the caldera basin to the north shows that the area was once densely forested with junipers when it was above sea level.

As that industry died out in the 19th century, however, the junipers rapidly recovered their numbers.

In the 1940s, it was realised that two species of scale insect, Lepidosaphes newsteadi and Carulaspis minima, had accidentally been introduced, and were rapidly killing off the junipers, which had no immunity to their toxicological effect.

A study of mistletoe in junipers concluded that more juniper berries sprout in stands where mistletoe is present, as the mistletoe attracts berry-eating birds which also eat juniper berries.

* The common junipers grow at elevations above the rhododendrons.

* Three species of bilberry are associated with the junipers.

Since juniper prefers a more alkaline soil, it is sometimes possible to locate the margins of the ancient sea from a distance by looking for the distinctive light green color of junipers growing on the more alkaline oceanic dolomite deposits between the island hills.

Here the Ponderosa Pine forest transitions into the high desert, characterized by arid land, junipers, sagebrush, and bitter-brush.

A little higher, junipers are common.

Many junipers ( e. g. J. chinensis, J. virginiana ) have two types of leaves: seedlings and some twigs of older trees have needle-like leaves 5 – 25 mm long ; and the leaves on mature plants are ( mostly ) tiny ( 2 – 4 mm long ), overlapping and scale-like.

The needle-leaves of junipers are hard and sharp, making the juvenile foliage very prickly to handle.

The junipers are divided into several sections, though ( particularly among the scale-leaved species ) which species belong to which sections is still far from clear, with research still on-going.

Juniperus: Needle-leaf junipers.

Provisionally, all the other junipers are included here, though they form a paraphyletic group.

Some junipers are susceptible to Gymnosporangium rust disease, and can be a serious problem for those people growing apple trees, the alternate host of the disease.