Saint Brieuc founded the city that bears his name in Brittany, Saint Colmán founded the great monastery of Bobbio in northern Italy and one of his monks was Saint Gall for whom the Swiss town of St Gallen and canton of St Gallen.

Unlike the rest of France and Brittany, Lower Brittany ( roughly, west of a boundary from Saint Brieuc to Vannes ) has maintained a distinctly Celtic language, Breton, which is related to Cornish and Welsh.

There is no direct railway from Vannes to Saint Brieuc ( 70 miles away in the north of Brittany ), so the train from Vannes to Saint Brieuc goes via Rennes, which doubles the travel time and cost: it takes 2 to 3 hours to go from Vannes to Saint Brieuc by train.

There is no highway from Vannes to Saint Brieuc, so the way to northern Brittany consists of small roads.

The lack of highway or railway between Vannes and Saint Brieuc ( 70 miles north ) cuts the communications between northern and southern Brittany, and limits Brittany economic performance.

* Saint Brioc, Abbot of St. Brieuc ( ca.

Saint Brioc ( Welsh: Briog ; also known in French as Brieuc, in Breton as Brieg, and in Cornwall as Breock ) was an early 6th century Welshman who became the first Abbot of Saint-Brieuc in Brittany.

In France, the band played shows in Saint Brieuc, Languidic, Brest, Hennebont, Tours, Grenoble, Rheims, while in Germany the band played at the Wacken Open Air festival.

Alexander also patronised Saint Andrews, granting lands intended for an Augustinian Priory, which may have been the same as that intended to honour his wife.

The story that he himself in his childhood was sent to Ireland to be healed by Saint Modwenna, though mythical, may show Alfred's interest in that island.

The modern figure was derived from the Dutch figure of Sinterklaas, which, in turn, may have part of its basis in hagiographical tales concerning the historical figure of gift giver Saint Nicholas.

It may come from a custom in the late Roman / early Christian era, wherein metal boxes placed outside churches were used to collect special offerings tied to the Feast of Saint Stephen, which in the Western Church falls on the same day as Boxing Day.

Bruno spent much time at the monastery where Adalbert had become a monk and where abbot John Canaparius may have written a life of Saint Adalbert.

The remnants of such clusters may be found in places such as the San Juan Mountains of Colorado ( formed during the Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene periods ) or the Saint Francois Mountain Range of Missouri ( erupted during the Proterozoic ).

The Saint Thomas Christians (" Nasrani ") of southwestern India may have connections with the Essenes, according to the Manimekalai, one of the great Tamil epic poems, which refers to a people called " Issani ".

The 41 letters we know today include letters for non-Greek sounds which may have been added by Saint Cyril, as well as ligatures added in the 12th century under the influence of Cyrillic, as Glagolitic lost its dominance.

Some villas such as Great Casterton in Rutland and Hucclecote in Gloucestershire had new mosaic floors laid around this time, suggesting that economic problems may have been limited and patchy, although many suffered some decay before being abandoned in the 5th century ; the story of Saint Patrick indicates that villas were still occupied until at least 430.

Some believe that it may have laid its eggs in the islands in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

The characteristics they shared with many Merovingian female saints may be mentioned: Regenulfa of Incourt, a 7th-century virgin in French-speaking Brabant of the ancestral line of the dukes of Brabant fled from a proposal of marriage to live isolated in the forest, where a curative spring sprang forth at her touch ; Ermelindis of Meldert, a 6th-century virgin related to Pepin I, inhabited several isolated villas ; Begga of Andenne, the mother of Pepin II, founded seven churches in Andenne during her widowhood ; the purely legendary " Oda of Amay " was drawn into the Carolingian line by spurious genealogy in her 13th-century vita, which made her the mother of Arnulf, Bishop of Metz, but she has been identified with the historical Saint Chrodoara ; finally, the widely-venerated Gertrude of Nivelles, sister of Begga in the Carolingian ancestry, was abbess of a nunnery established by her mother.

His personal problems were contrasted with his religious accomplishments, which included restoring Saint Lawrence outside the Walls, encouraging his personal secretary Saint Jerome in his Vulgate translation of the Bible, and presiding over the Council of Rome in 382, which may have set down the canon of Scripture ( based upon the Decretum Gelasianum, which some consider a sixth century work ).

Paulinus may have been indirectly responsible for Augustine's Confessions: Paulinus wrote to Alypius, Bishop of Thagaste and a close friend of Saint Augustine, asking about his conversion and taking up of the ascetic life.

Some may be named after this obscure pontiff, but most take their regnal name from Saint Benedict of Nursia, the founder of the Benedictine monastic movement.

The revision of the calendar in 1969 removed the mention of Saint Stephen I from the General Roman Calendar, but, according to the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, the 2 August Mass may now everywhere be that of Saint Stephen I, unless in some locality an obligatory celebration is assigned to that day, and some continue to use pre-1969 calendars that mention a commemoration of Saint Stephen I on that day.

Saint Louis or St. Louis may also refer to:

Saint Adrian may refer to:

Saint Columba may refer to:

Also, the painting Saint Cecilia with an Angel ( 1618 ) by Domenichino ( 1581 – 1641 ) shows what may be a seven-string viol.

Saint Anselm may be

Saint Cuthbert was possibly a second cousin of King Aldfrith of Northumbria ( according to Irish genealogies ), which may have been the reason for his later proposal that Aldfrith should be crowned as monarch.

As for Lucius ' name, Frances Yates speculates that he may be named after Saint Lucius, who introduced Christianity into Britain.

Today the terms " Order of Saint Benedict " and " Benedictine Order " are also used frequently to refer to the total of the independent Benedictine abbeys, thereby giving the wrong impression of a " generalate " or " motherhouse " with jurisdiction over dependent communities.

The Templars were also known to possess the head of Saint Euphemia of Chalcedon, and the subject of relics came up during the Inquisition of the Templars, as several trial documents refer to the worship of an idol of some type, referred to in some cases as a cat, a bearded head, or in some cases as Baphomet.

Under heavy fire from the public, the Graham government eventually announced that it would set aside the possibility of UNB Saint John losing its status as a university and would refer the report to a working group for further study.

Eusebius, Saint Irenaeus, Saint Augustine and Optatus all suggest that both names refer to the same individual.

Saint Joseph may also refer to:

Saint Charles may refer to:

Saint Margaret may refer to:

Saint Jerome may also refer to:

Saint Augustine may also refer to:

However, Māra was used to refer to Saint Mary, who was also called upon during childbirth and to help with number of ailments by either her modern Latvian name Marija or number of Christian euphemisms.

Priory may also refer to schools operated or sponsored by the Benedictines, such as the Saint Louis Priory School or the Woodside Priory School.

Saint Thomas or St Thomas may refer to:

Saint Adalbert may refer to:

Saint James or St. James may refer to:

The name Saint Omer may refer to:

" The Curate of Ars " ( usually in French: Le Curé d ' Ars ) is a style often used to refer to Saint Jean Vianney, a French parish priest canonized on account of his piety and simplicity of life.

Since the Perseid Meteor Shower typically occurs every year in mid-August, on or near Saint Lawrence's feast day, some refer to the shower as the " Tears of Saint Lawrence.

Vicarius Filii Dei ( Latin: Vicar or Representative of the Son of God ) is a phrase first used in the forged medieval Donation of Constantine to refer to Saint Peter, a leader of the Early Christian Church and regarded as the first Pope by the Catholic Church.

" Saint Etienne " may further refer to:

The same term is used informally in Canada to refer to the Coast Mountains and adjoining inland ranges such as the Hazelton Mountains, and sometimes also the ( Saint Elias Mountains )