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.

Saint Isidore applied himself to study diligently enough that he quickly mastered at least a pedestrian level of Latin, a smattering of Greek, and some Hebrew.

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.

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.

Historically, in some Celtic monasteries abbesses presided over joint-houses of monks and nuns, the most famous example being Saint Brigid of Kildare's leadership in the founding of the monastery at Kildare in Ireland.

On 13 November 833, Ebbo of Rheims presided over a synod in the Church of Saint Mary in Soissons which deposed Louis and forced him to publicly confess many crimes, none of which he had, in fact, committed.

Early records tell of Saint Columba, who presided over a meeting of the Kings at Mullagh Hill near Limavady in 575 AD, a location which is now part of the Roe Park Golf Resort.

In his early youth, or the 420s, Hilary joined the abbey of Lérins then presided over by his kinsman Honoratus ( Saint Honoré ).

A notable Eucharistic procession is that presided over by the Pope each year in Rome, where it begins at the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran and makes its way to the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, where it concludes with Benediction.

Roper also presided over the band Brave Saint Saturn-a studio side-project telling the story of stranded astronauts.

Saint James, " the Lord's brother ," presided over the Jerusalem church after the apostles dispersed.

In 1949, the Northern Pacific's headquarters in Saint Paul presided over a system of, which of main line, of branch line under seven operating divisions.

Cabell retaliated with a chapbook entitled The Judging of Jurgen ( later inserted into subsequent reprints of the novel ), in which the title character is consigned to oblivion for being " obscene, lewd, lascivious and indecent " in a trial presided over by a dung beetle who swears " by Saint Anthony ".

Saint Alexius ( Алексей or Aleksij in Russian ) ( before 1296 – 1378 ) was Metropolitan of Kiev and all Russia ( from 1354 ), and presided over the Moscow government during Dmitrii Donskoi's minority.

In 510 V. S or 453 A. D, another Jain Saint Devardhigani Kshamsharman presided over a congregation of 500 Jain Acharyas to script the Agams.

On June 19, 2007, the Holy Father Benedict XVI presided at Cardinal Felici's funeral Mass at the Altar of the Cathedra in Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.

Guardsmen most commonly appeared in public when the pope presided over ceremonies in Saint Peter's Basilica.

* Saint Aurelius, presided at Council of Carthage ( 421 )

During his time on the bench he presided over the trial of Joseph Smith, Jr. founder of the Latter Day Saint movement during the 1838 Mormon War.

* 1938 – The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

As a result of the Treaty of Saint Petersburg ( 1875 ), the Kuril Islands were handed over to Japan, along with its Ainu subjects.

Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, certainly did not found religious orders, though he took an interest in the monastic life and watched over its beginnings in his diocese, providing for the needs of a monastery outside the walls of Milam, as Saint Augustine recounts in his Confessions.

Arnulf then proceeded to the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, where he received the homage of the Roman people, who swore “ never to hand over the city to Lambert or his mother Ageltrude ”.

Saint Anthony prophesied about the persecution that was about to happen to the church and the control of the heretics over it, the church victory and its return to its former glory, and the end of the age.

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.

Following in the Pauline tradition, in the 5th century Saint Augustine viewed Christ as the mediator of the New Covenant between God and man and as the conqueror over sin.

Other groups originating in this time period include the Christadelphians and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement with over 14 million members.

He bought the Sioux City team and transferred it to Saint Paul, Minnesota, where it enjoyed some success over the next five seasons.

Tradition asserts that, sometime around 560, he became involved in a quarrel with Saint Finnian of Movilla Abbey over a psalter.

After the excavations of the early 1970s, the Armenian authorities converted this archaeological space into the Chapel of Saint Vartan, and created an artificial walkway over the quarry on the north of the chapel, so that the new Chapel could be accessed ( by permission ) from the Chapel of Saint Helena.

Controversy has existed between the two largest denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement over some sections added to the 1876 LDS edition, attributed to founder Smith.

The statue of Christ flown by helicopter over Rome to Saint Peter's Square was inspired by an actual media event on May 1, 1956, which Fellini had witnessed.

* His sister, Saint Florentina, served God as a nun and allegedly ruled over forty convents and one thousand consecrated religious.

The Libertarian International – founded at the Congress of Saint Imier a few days after the split between Marxist and libertarians at the congress of the Socialist International held in The Hague in 1872 – competed successfully against social democrats and communists alike for the loyalty of anticapitalist activists, revolutionaries, workers, unions and political parties for over fifty years.

In conjunction with another disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Saint Naum, he created a flourishing Bulgarian cultural center around Ohrid, where over 3, 000 pupils were taught in the Glagolitic and Cyrillic script in what is now called Ohrid Literary School.

The Monastery of Saint Anthony in Egypt, built over the tomb of Anthony the Great | Saint Anthony, the " Father of Christian Monasticism ".

Saint Dominic Presiding over an Auto-da-fé ( around 1495 ).