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Saint Herman of Alaska ( born 1756 or 1760 in Serpukhov, Russia – died December 13 or November 15, 1837 on Spruce Island, Alaska ) was one of the first Eastern Orthodox missionaries to the New World, and is considered by Orthodox Christians to be the patron saint of the Americas.
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Platina, CA: Saint Herman Press, 1999.
Saint Herman was born in the town of Serpukhov in the Moscow Diocese around 1756.
" Saint Herman was the first saint from America to be canonized by the Orthodox Church.
There are several feast days throughout the year on which Saint Herman of Alaska is commemorated.
* November 15 / 28 — Repose: This is the anniversary of the actual death of Saint Herman.
In 1993, Patriarch Alexis II visited Kodiak to venerate the relics of Saint Herman.
Saint Herman is honored with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church ( USA ) on August 9.
* The Life of Our Holy Father Saint Herman of Alaska
* Icon of Saint Herman of Alaska with Scenes from his Life
The Russian Orthodox Church also sent missionaries to Alaska beginning in the 18th century, including Saint Herman of Alaska, to minister to the Native Americans.
The witness of Herman of Alaska, Saint Innocent of Alaska, and Peter the Aleut has contributed to the continuing strong Orthodox community in villages like Nanwalek.
Saint Benedict by Herman Nieg, Heiligenkreuz Abbey, Austria
* Published in 1855, Herman Melville's " Benito Cereno " narrates a fictional slave revolt on a the ship " Saint Dominick " in the year 1799, wherein the slaves take complete control of the ship.
* Saint Herman ( disambiguation )
Hieromonk Seraphim Rose, Saint Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, Platina CA ) 1984.
Increasingly drawn to a more reclusive lifestyle, Rose's community ultimately decided to leave the city for the northern California wilderness, where Rose and Podmoshensky became monks in 1968 and transformed the Saint Herman of Alaska Brotherhood info a full-fledged monastic community.
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Platina: Saint Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 1975.
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Platina: Saint Herman of Alaska Brotherhood, 1983.
* Translation of the relics ( 1595 ) of Saint Herman, Archbishop of Kazan ( 1567 )
* Translation of the relics of Saint Herman of Kazan, archbishop
* Translation of the Relics of Saint Herman ( Germanus ), Archbishop of Kazan
* Commemoration of the canonization of Saint Herman of Alaska ( 1970 )
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Saint Herman's Orthodox Theological Seminary in Kodiak, Alaska is named in his honor, as are numerous parish churches throughout the world.
* Whales and dolphins are hunted, partly for their flesh, by aboriginal communities in Japan, Alaska, Siberia, Canada, by the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and by two small communities in Indonesia.
After the American Civil War and with increasing capability, the United States government did not accept self-determination as a basis during its Purchase of Alaska and attempted purchase of the West Indian islands of Saint Thomas and Saint John in 1860s, or its growing influence in the Hawaiian Islands, that led to annexation in 1898.
In 1802, Tlingit warriors destroyed several Russian settlements, most notably Redoubt Saint Michael ( Old Sitka ), leaving New Russia as the only remaining outpost on mainland Alaska.
The Russian " Rurik " sets anchor near Saint Paul Island ( Alaska ) | Saint Paul Island in the Bering sea in order to load food and equipment for the expedition to the Chukchi sea in the north.
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Its southern and southeastern boundaries are surrounded by the Fraser River and the Interior Plateau while its far northwestern edge is delimited by the Kelsall and Tatshenshini Rivers at the north end of the Alaska Panhandle, beyond which are the Saint Elias Mountains, and by Champagne Pass in the Yukon Territory.
In North America, its breeding range lies along the Saint Lawrence River, through the Great Lakes, Alberta, Saskatchewan, the Dakotas, south to Kansas, west to California, and along coastal Pacific Canada and southern coastal Alaska.
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Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov was born on 10 March 1845 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the second son of Emperor Alexander II of Russia and his wife Maria Alexandrovna ( Marie of Hesse ).
In the late sixth century, Ayios Ioannis Eleimonas ( Saint John the Charitable ), protector of the Knights of St. John, was born in Amathus.
* Saint David Lewis, Catholic priest and martyr, was born in Abergavenny.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints traces its origins to western New York, where Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement was born and raised.
Columbanus ( the Latinised form of Columbán ) was born in Nobber, County Meath, Ireland, in the year Saint Benedict died, and from childhood was well instructed.
On March 24, 1945, Camilla Christine Hall was born in Saint Peter, Minnesota.
Saint Francis of Assisi ( born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone ; 1181 died: October 3, 1226 ) was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher.
Cantor was born in 1845 in the western merchant colony in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and brought up in the city until he was eleven.
Grammer was born in Saint Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands, the son of Sally ( née Cranmer ), a singer, and Frank Allen Grammer, Jr., a musician and owner of a coffee shop and a bar & grill called Greer's Place.
He was born in Bangalore, South India, and educated at Saint Ronan's School in Worthing, West Sussex, and at Cheltenham College, where he met his lifelong friend and biographer, the screenwriter and novelist Gavin Lambert ; Wadham College, Oxford, where he studied classics ; and Magdalen College, Oxford where he studied English literature.
Léon Theremin was born Lev Sergeyevich Termen in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire in 1896 into a family of French and German ancestry.
Pope Saint Anastasius I, born in Rome the son of Maximus, was pope from 27 November 399 to 401.
Marinus was born in Rome, and prior to becoming pope he was attached to the Church of Saint Cyriacus in the Baths of Diocletian.
* Saint Francis Borgia, fourth Duke of Gandia, Marquis of Lombay, and viceroy of Catalonia, born in 1510.
* Saint Rose of Lima, of the third order of Saint Dominic, born at Lima, Peru in 1586.
Pope Saint Celestine V ( 1215 – 19 May 1296 ), born Pietro Angelerio ( according to some sources Angelario, Angelieri, Angelliero, or Angeleri ), also known as Pietro da Morrone, was elected Pope in the year 1294 in the last non-conclave papal election in the history of the Roman Catholic Church.
Pope Saint Zosimus was born in Mesoraca, Calabria and was Pope from 18 March 417 to 26 December 418 ( or 27 December ).
When Pelagius taught that moral perfection was attainable in this life without the assistance of divine grace through human free will, Saint Augustine contradicted this by saying that perfection was impossible without grace because we are born sinners with a sinful heart and will.
Saint Raphael of Brooklyn ( November 20, 1860 – February 27, 1915 ), also known as Father Raphael, was born as Raphael Hawaweeny () in Beirut, Lebanon, of Damascene Syrian parents.
According to tradition, Saint Agnes was a member of the Roman nobility born c. 291 and raised in a Christian family.
Saint Boniface () ( c. 7th century – 5 June 754 ), the Apostle of the Germans, born Winfrid, Wynfrith, or Wynfryth in the kingdom of Wessex, probably at Crediton ( now in Devon, England ), was a missionary who propagated Christianity in the Frankish Empire during the 8th century.
The patron saint of the city is Saint Lucy ; she was born in Syracuse and her feast day, Saint Lucy's Day, is celebrated on 13 December.
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