John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, conquered the Portuguese possessions of Saint George del Mina, Saint Thomas, and Luanda, Angola, on the west coast of Africa.

The Ottomans completed the conquest of the peninsula in 1517 with the taking of Halicarnassus ( modern Bodrum ) from the Knights of Saint John.

Saint John Cassian speaks of an abbot of the Thebaid who had 500 monks under him.

Within the sects of the Latter Day Saint movement, the Articles of Faith are a list composed by Joseph Smith, Jr. as part of an 1842 letter sent to " Long " John Wentworth, editor of the Chicago Democrat.

Ealdred encouraged Folcard, a monk of Canterbury, to write the Life Saint John of Beverley.

This was part of Ealdred's promotion of the cult of Saint John, who had only been canonized in 1037.

In the late sixth century, Ayios Ioannis Eleimonas ( Saint John the Charitable ), protector of the Knights of St. John, was born in Amathus.

In this same period, Saint John Chrysostom explained the significance of angels ' wings: " They manifest a nature's sublimity.

Bronze statue in Temple Square, Salt Lake City, representing Saint Peter | Peter, James, son of Zebedee | James, and John the Apostle | John in the act of conferring the Melchizedek priesthood to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery

The latter title is especially suggestive of his role in forming several Franciscans who later became influential thinkers in the faculty, among them Saint Bonaventure, John of La Rochelle, Odo Rigaldus, William of Middleton and Richard Rufus of Cornwall.

It is also known as the Book of the Revelation of Saint John the Divine or the Apocalypse of John, ( both in reference to its author ) or the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ ( in reference to its opening line ) or simply Revelation, ( often erroneously called Revelations in contrast to the singular in the original Koine ) or the Apocalypse.

* Boxall, Ian, ( 2006 ) The Revelation of Saint John ( Black's New Testament Commentary ) London: Continuum, and Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson.

File: Leonardo da vinci, Study for the Burlington House Cartoon. jpg | Leonardo da Vinci-The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist (' The Burlington House Cartoon ') ( c. 1499 – 1500 )

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.

Saint Sava began the work on the Serbian Nomocanon in 1208 while being at Mount Athos, using The Nomocanon in Fourteen Titles, Synopsis of Stefan the Efesian, Nomocanon of John Scholasticus, Ecumenical Councils ' documents, which he modified with the canonical commentaries of Aristinos and John Zonaras, local church meetings, rules of the Holy Fathers, the law of Moses, translation of Prohiron and the Byzantine emperors ' Novellae ( most were taken from Justinian's Novellae ).

The canonization of Saint Udalric, Bishop of Augsburg, by Pope John XV in 999 is the first undoubted example of a papal canonization of a saint from outside Rome ( Some historians maintain that the first such canonization was that of Saint Swibert by Pope Leo III in 804 ).

* Saint Cyrus ( see Cyrus and John ), 4th century Coptic saint

* General John A. Logan by Augustus Saint Gaudens

** February 29 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics ): Saint John Cassian

Peter the Deacon gives a list of some seventy books Desiderius had copied at Monte Cassino, including works of Saint Augustine, Saint Ambrose, Saint Bede, Saint Basil, Saint Jerome, Saint Gregory of Nazianzus and Cassian, the registers of Popes Felix and Leo, the histories of Josephus, Paul Warnfrid, Jordanes and Saint Gregory of Tours, the Institutes and Novels of Justinian, the works of Terence, Virgil and Seneca, Cicero's De natura deorum, and Ovid's Fasti.

He was probably aware of the Rule written by Pachomius ( or attributed to him ); and his Rule also shows influence by the Rule of St Augustine of Hippo and the writings of Saint John Cassian.

Saint John Cassian recommended use of the phrase " O God, make speed to save me: O Lord, make haste to help me ".

Other methods are equally accepted, such as the recitation, as recommended by Saint John Cassian, of " O God, come to my assistance ; O Lord, make haste to help me " or other verses of Scripture ; the repetition of a single monosyllabic word, as suggested by the Cloud of Unknowing ; the method used in Centering Prayer ; the use of Lectio Divina ; etc.

John Cassian, known particularly for his teachings on theosis, is considered to be a Saint in the Eastern Church as well as in Roman Catholicism.

* According to tradition, Saint Cassian of Imola was a teacher and martyr there during the reign of Emperor Julian the Apostate in the 4th century.

Saint John Cassian says that even in his time ( beginning of the 5th century ), the Egyptian monasteries celebrated the Nativity and Baptism together on January 6.

* Saint Cassian of Imola, bishop of Brescia ( 49 – 50 )

Cassian, or Saint Cassian of Imola, or Cassius was a Christian saint of the 4th century.

Saint John Cassian ( ca.

Cassian and Germanus went to Constantinople, where they appealed to the Patriarch of Constantinople, Saint John Chrysostom, for protection.

Many different western spiritualities, from that of Saint Benedict to that of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, owe their basic ideas to Cassian.

The Rule of Saint Benedict was strongly influenced by the Desert Fathers, with Saint Benedict urging his monks to read the writings of John Cassian on the Desert Fathers.

Aurelius Ambrosius, better known in English as Saint Ambrose ( c. 330 – 4 April 397 ), was an archbishop of Milan who became one of the most influential ecclesiastical figures of the 4th century.

Saint Adalbert, Czech: ;, ( c. 956 – April 23, 997 ), Czech Roman Catholic saint, a Bishop of Prague and a missionary, was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians.

He was soon producing some spectacular and original images, notably Nemesis ( 1502 ), The Sea Monster ( 1498 ), and Saint Eustace ( c. 1501 ), with a highly detailed landscape background and animals.

Saint Benedict of Nursia ( c. 480 – 543 ), detail from a fresco by Fra Angelico, Saint Mark's Basilica | San Marco, Florence ( c. 1400 – 1455 ).

Saint Boniface ( c 680 – 750 ), Pope Gregory I ( c 540 – 604, r. 590 – 604 ), Adalbert of Egmond ( 8th century ), and priest Jeroen van Noordwijk, depicted in a 1529 painting by Jan Joostsz van Hillegom, currently on display at the Frans Hals Museum.

* Saint Boniface ( c 680 – 755 )

* Saint Sturm ( c 705 – 79 )

* Saint Maurus of Pécs ( c 1000 – c 1075 )

* Saint Walpurga ( c 710 – 79 )

File: British Museum Royal Gold Cup. jpg | Room 40-Royal Gold Cup or Saint Agnes Cup, c. AD 1370-80 ( generally agreed to be the outstanding surviving example of late medieval French plate )

Saint Bruno of Querfurt ( c. 974 – February 14, 1009 ), also known as Brun and Boniface, is a sainted missionary bishop and martyr, who was beheaded near the border of Kievan Rus and Lithuania while trying to spread Christianity in Eastern Europe.

* Saint Cyril of Jerusalem ( c. 313 – 386 ), theologian and bishop

* Saint Cyril of Alexandria ( c. 376 – 444 ), Patriarch of Alexandria

1452 under the heading of termis of venery & c. extends to 70 items, and the list in the Book of Saint Albans ( 1486 ) runs to 165 items, many of which, even though introduced by the compaynys of beestys and fowlys, do not relate to venery but to human groups and professions and are clearly humorous.

* Saint Eusebius of Cremona ( died c. 423 )

* Saint Eusebius of Rome ( died c. 357 ), priest and martyr

* Saint Eusebius of Samosata ( died c. 380 ), bishop of Samosata

Detail from the fifth panel of the Saint Vincent Panels | polyptych of St. Vincent by Nuno Gonçalves, c. 1470