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

* 749 – Saint John of Damascus

He was first educated at the Damascus Patriarchal School that had become the leading Greek Orthodox institution of higher learning in the Middle-East under the leadership of Saint Joseph of Damascus.

The emphasis on the salvific nature of the Resurrection continued in Christian theology in the next centuries, e. g., in the 8th century Saint John of Damascus wrote that: "... When he had freed those who were bound from the beginning of time, Christ returned again from among the dead, having opened for us the way to resurrection " and Christian iconography of the ensuing years represented that concept.

* An account of Buddha's life is translated into Greek by Saint John of Damascus, and widely circulated to Christians as the story of Barlaam and Josaphat.

* December 4 – Saint John of Damascus ( or Damascene ), theologian

* The Umayyad Mosque is built over the Basilica of Saint John the Baptist in Damascus.

* John of Damascus, Christian Saint ( approximate date )

When the name of Saint John of Damascus was inserted in the General Roman Calendar in 1890, it was assigned to 27 March.

Numerous other Roman Catholic churches within Valletta include Our Lady of Pilar Church, the Carmelite Church, Our Lady of Liesse Church, St. James Church, St. Barbara Church ( offering services in French, English and German ), Our Lady of Damascus ( a Byzantine Rite Catholic church ), St. Lucy Church, St. Roch Church, St. Catherine of Italy Church ( offering services in Italian ), St. Nicholas Church ( known as the ' Church of All Souls '), St. Catherine of Alexandria Church and the Parish Church of Saint Mary of Porto Salvo and Saint Dominic, accredited the first basilica in Malta in the Bolla Pont by Pope Pius V.

* Saint Thomas's Gate, also known as Bab Tuma, a district of Damascus, Syria

Construction, however, stalled almost totally until 1480, due to lack of money and ideas: the most notable works of this period were the tombs of Marco Carelli and Pope Martin V ( 1424 ) and the windows of the apse ( 1470s ), of which those extant portray St. John the Evangelist, by Cristoforo de ' Mottis, and Saint Eligius and San John of Damascus, both by Niccolò da Varallo.

The Sinan-paša that lead the Ottoman army ordered that green flag of Muhammad should be brought from Damascus to confront this flag with image of Saint Sava.

Anosov had entered the Saint Petersburg Mine Cadet School in 1810, where a Damascus steel sword was stored in a display case.

One of the most famous Orthodox votive offerings is that by Saint John of Damascus.

* Saint Ananias of Damascus, Bishop and one of the Seventy Apostles ( 1st c .)

The house of Saint Ananias in Damascus. According to Catholic tradition, Ananias was martyred in Eleutheropolis.

Saint Cosmas () was probably born in Damascus, but he was orphaned at a young age.

* Saint Joseph of Damascus ( 1860 )

The Umayyad Mosque, also known as the Great Mosque of Damascus (, transliteration Ğām ' Banī ' Umayya al-Kabīr ) or formerly the Basilica of Saint John the Baptist (, transliteration Vasilikí tou Agíou Ioánni tou Vaptistí ), located in the old city of Damascus, is one of the largest and oldest mosques in the world.

* Saint Victor of Damascus, martyr, 2nd century, see Saints Victor and Corona

The Patriarchate of Alexandria ( Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria and Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria ) claims to have been founded by Saint Mark.

* Monastery of Agios Nectarios, dedicated to Saint Nectarios, a recent saint of the Greek Orthodox Church.

** Agios, a shortend form of the Greek word for Saint.

Saint Shenouda was a popular leader who only spoke to the Egyptians in Egyptian language ( Coptic ), the language of the repressed, not in Greek, the language of the rulers.

He had access to two works of Eusebius: the Historia Ecclesiastica, and also the Chronicon, though he had neither in the original Greek ; instead he had a Latin translation of the Historia, by Rufinus, and Saint Jerome's translation of the Chronicon.

His other historical works included lives of the abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow, as well as verse and prose lives of Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, an adaptation of Paulinus of Nola's Life of St Felix, and a translation of the Greek Passion of St Anastasius.

The first mention of the language as the " Bulgarian language " instead of the " Slavonic language " comes in the work of the Greek clergy of the Bulgarian Archbishopric of Ohrid in the 11th century, for example in the Greek hagiography of Saint Clement of Ohrid by Theophylact of Ohrid ( late 11th century ).

Saint Jerome later translated the Greek phrase as piscis granda in his Latin Vulgate, and as cetus in.

* Saint Cyril the Philosopher ( link to Saints Cyril and Methodius ), 9th century Greek missionary, co-invented the Slavic alphabet, translated the Bible into Old Church Slavonic

The motif is continued in Greek Apollo, and the early Christian narratives about Archangel Michael and Saint George.

( Community and Parish of Saint George Thebarton, Adelaide, South Australia | St. George Greek Orthodox Church, Adelaide )

* 869 – Saint Cyril, Greek missionary ( b. 827 )

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.

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

* Orthodox Monasticism Saint Anthony's Greek Orthodox Monaster

Since the papacy of Heraclas in the 3rd century, the Bishop of the Alexandria in both the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria continue to be called " Pope ", the former being called " Coptic Pope " or, more properly, " Pope and Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Orthodox and Apostolic Throne of Saint Mark the Evangelist and Holy Apostle " and the last called " Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa ".

* Codex Zacynthius – Greek palimpsest fragments of the gospel of Saint Luke, obtained in the island of Zante, by General Colin Macaulay, deciphered, transcribed and edited by Tregelles

A life of Pope Gregory the Great has also been attributed to him, and he is credited with a Latin translation of the Greek Life of Saint Mary the Egyptian.

Pope Saint Miltiades, also called Melchiades ( Μελχιάδης ὁ Ἀφρικανός in Greek ), was Pope from 2 July 311 to 10 January 314.

Pope Sixtus II or Pope Saint Sixtus II ( a corruption of Greek, Xystus, " polished ") was pope from 30 August 257 to 6 August 258.

Pope Saint Zachary ( Greek: Zacharias ) was Pope of the Catholic Church from 741 to 752.

Pope Saint Eusebius ( from Greek Εὐσέβιος " pious ", from eu ( εὖ ) " well " and sebein ( σέβειν ) " to respect ") was pope in the year 309 or 310.