Following the Physiologus, Saint Isidore of Seville ( Book XII of the Etymologiae ) and Saint Ambrose expanded the religious message with reference to passages from the Bible and the Septuagint.

Saint Isidore of Seville, one of the greatest scholars of the early Middle Ages, is widely recognized as being the author of the first known encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, the Etymologiae or Origines ( around 630 ), in which he compiled a sizable portion of the learning available at his time, both ancient and modern.

The encyclopedia has 448 chapters in 20 volumes, and is valuable because of the quotes and fragments of texts by other authors that would have been lost had they not been collected by Saint Isidore.

Saint Isidore of Seville ( Spanish: or, Latin: ) ( c. 560 – 4 April 636 ) served as Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and is considered, as the historian Montalembert put it in an oft-quoted phrase, " the last scholar of the ancient world ".

* An elder brother, Saint Leander of Seville, immediately preceded Saint Isidore as Archbishop of Seville and, while in office, opposed king Liuvigild.

After the death of Saint Leander of Seville on 13 March 600 or 601, Saint Isidore succeeded to the See of Seville.

Saint Isidore recognized that the spiritual and material welfare of the people of his See depended on assimilation of remnant Roman and ruling barbarian cultures ; he consequently attempted to weld the peoples and subcultures of the Visigothic kingdom into a united nation.

Saint Isidore introduced Aristotle to his countrymen long before the Arabs studied Greek philosophy extensively.

In 619, Saint Isidore of Seville pronounced anathema against any ecclesiastic who in any way should molest the monasteries and children.

Saint Isidore presided over the Second Council of Seville, begun on 13 November 619, in the reign of King Sisebut.

The aged Archbishop Saint Isidore presided over its deliberations and originated of most enactments of the council.

Saint Isidore used this opportunity to serve his country greatly.

Through his influence, this Council of Toledo promulgated a decree, commanding all bishops to establish seminaries in their cathedral cities along the lines of the cathedral school at Seville, which educated Saint Isidore decades earlier.

Saint Isidore attempted to compile a summa of universal knowledge.

Saint Isidore of Seville died on 4 April 636 after serving more than three decades as archbishop of Seville.

Saint Isidore wrote a total of 1640 Spanish words in his surviving works.

The University of Dayton has named their implementation of the Sakai Project in honor of Saint Isidore.

* The Life and Miracles of St. Isidore of Seville, Saint and Doctor of the Catholic Church

" Cicero's conception of natural law " found its way to later centuries notably through the writings of Saint Isidore of Seville and the Decretum of Gratian.

The city also has several business parks, including l ' Arenas, Nice the Plain, Nice Méridia, Saint Isidore, and the Northern Forum.

A 9th-century collection of church legislation known as the False Decretals, which was once attributed to Saint Isidore of Seville, is largely composed of forgeries.

However, misinterpretations of maps by subsequent Spanish explorers led Saint Kitts to be named San Cristobal ( Saint Christopher ), a name originally applied to Saba 20 miles north.

He applied for the chair of physiology at the University of Saint Petersburg but his application was rejected.

This word, with the meaning " beautiful ", was originally applied to Saint Basil's Cathedral and was subsequently transferred to the nearby square.

In common parlance, all members of male religious institutes are often termed " monks " and those of female religious institutes " nuns ", although in a more restricted sense, a monk is one who lives in a monastery under a monastic rule such as that of Saint Benedict and the term " nun " was in the 1917 Code of Canon Law officially reserved for members of a women's religious institute of solemn vows, and is sometimes applied only to those who devote themselves wholly to the contemplative life and belong to one of the enclosed religious orders living and working within the confines of a monastery and reciting the Liturgy of the Hours in community.

It is only one of the three conditions ( baptism, right faith and right living ) for admission to receiving Holy Communion that the Catholic Church has always applied and that were already mentioned in the early 2nd century by Saint Justin Martyr: " And this food is called among us the Eucharist, of which no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes that the things which we teach are true, and who has been washed with the washing that is for the remission of sins, and unto regeneration, and who is so living as Christ has enjoined " ( First Apology, Chapter LXVI ).

A dangerous technique of chemical gilding using mercury had been applied on some occasions until the mid-19th century, most notably in the giant dome of Saint Isaac's Cathedral.

The band relocated to London in June 1991 when Harvey applied to study sculpture at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, still undecided as to her future career.

The terms sedevacantist and sedevacantism derive from the Latin phrase sede vacante: " while the chair / see Saint Peter is vacant ", a term which is normally applied to the period between the death of one pope and the election of his successor.

In 1919, the University of Oklahoma and Saint Louis University applied for membership, but both schools were disapproved due to deficient management of their athletic programs.

In fall 2009 he applied to Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia for January 2010 entry.

In 1730, Daniel Bernoulli studied " moral probability " in his book Mensura Sortis, where he introduced what would today be called " logarithmic utility of money " and applied it to gambling and insurance problems, including a solution of the paradoxical Saint Petersburg problem.

Saint Lawrence or Saint Laurence ( also St. Lawrence, St Laurence ) is a title applied to many things named after Saint Lawrence, the 3rd century Christian martyr.

# In Wisconsin, it is applied to smaller sometimes intermittent tributary streams in the watershed of the Upper Mississippi River, north of the Wisconsin River and as far up as the Saint Croix River.

Others, including moderately conservative Latter-day Saint KSL radio talk show host Doug Wright believed that since the new statement applied only to " sexual relations ," it highlighted precisely how Amendment 3 went too far.

Following graduation from the Imperial Alexander Lyceum in December 1872 Kokovtsov applied for admittance to Saint Petersburg State University to study law on the recommendation of Aleksandr Gradovsky, Nikolai Tagantsev and S. Pakhman all notable legal authorities of the time.

375 ), but the Lausiac History of Palladius may evidence its common use in the 4th century as applied to Saint Pachomius.

By promoting research that advances the knowledge and management of childhood health and diseases, a number of nationally known physician-scientists from the Saint Louis University School of Medicine conduct research that can be applied to the clinical setting to improve disease prevention and treatment.

They also would seem to have considered that the height of the pedestal should correspond in its proportion with that of the column or pilaster it supported ; thus in the church of Saint John Lateran, where the applied order is of considerable dimensions, the pedestal is high instead of the ordinary height of 3 to.

He applied to the Institute of Theology at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine and received his Doctor of Humanities degree from Belhaven College.

The second time, this technique was applied only some 100 years later, during the reconstruction of the Mainz Cathedral in Germany in 1826, and the third time it was used in the dome of Saint Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg, built in 1840s.

The name originally applied to a chapel dedicated to Saint Feliu ( Catalan for Felix ).