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

A crypt and relics said to be John's and mentioned in 11th and 16th century manuscripts, were discovered in 1969 during restoration of the Church of St. Macarius at the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great in Scetes, Egypt ; Additional relics are claimed to reside in Gandzasar Monastery's Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, in Nagorno Karabakh ;

(" Virgin and Christ Child with Saint John the Baptist and Angels ")

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

He then reused the temple, dedicating it to Saint Martin, and built another chapel on the site of the altar dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.

James and John first were disciples of Saint John the Baptist, their second cousin.

The Memphis area is home to many private, college-prep schools: Briarcrest Christian School ( co-ed ), Christian Brothers High School ( boys ), Evangelical Christian School ( co-ed ), First Assembly Christian School ( co-ed ), Hutchison School ( girls ), Lausanne Collegiate School ( co-ed ), Memphis University School ( boys ), Saint Benedict at Auburndale ( co-ed ), St. George's Independent School ( co-ed ), St. Agnes Academy ( girls ), Bishop Byrne Middle and High School ( co-ed ), Immaculate Conception Cathedral School ( girls ), St. Mary's Episcopal School ( girls ), and Elliston Baptist Academy ( co-ed ).

Central Baptist Hospital, Saint Joseph Hospital, Saint Joseph East, and the Veterans Administration Hospital employ 6, 206 total.

Inset shows Saint John Baptist Portuguese-built fort on the island

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Tuesdays are dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.

* The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist ( June 24 )

During the later medieval period the town was also called St John's Toun or Saint Johnstoun by its inhabitants in reference to the main church dedicated to St John the Baptist.

During much of the later medieval period it was known colloquially by its Scots-speaking inhabitants as " St. John's Toun " or " Saint Johnstoun " because the church at the centre of the parish was dedicated to St. John the Baptist.

Named for Saint John the Baptist, the mission is the namesake of the city of San Juan Bautista.

* Titian, Venus Anadyomene, Diana and Callisto, Diana and Actaeon, The Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and an Unidentified Saint, and The Three Ages of Man

The work, titled " Madonna and Child with infant Saint John the Baptist ", was painted circa 1514-1515.

* Canada ( French ) – John the Baptist, Saint Anne, and any that are listed in Canadian Saints, including Jean de Brébeuf and the seven other Roman Catholic saints of Canada.

However, a public outcry was brewing among the London populace who saw a sinister irony in the parallels between the conviction of Fisher and that of his patronal namesake, Saint John the Baptist, who was executed by King Herod Antipas for challenging the validity of Herod's marriage to his brother's divorcée Herodias.

In June, it is also celebrated the patron saint, Saint John the Baptist, in a medieval way.

The feast day of Saint John the Baptist or Midsummer was a very popular event in the Ancien régime of France, and it is still celebrated as a religious feast day in several countries, like Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

They were all dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.

At the entrance, above the doors, two recesses house the statues of Saint John the Baptist, patron saint of Chenonceau and Italian Masdone in the style of Luca della Robbia.

Saint Alcuin had a long career as a teacher and scholar, first at the school at York, founded in AD 627 ( now known as St Peter's School, York ) and later as Charlemagne's leading advisor on ecclesiastical and educational matters.

Private and alternative education institutions for children in preschool-12th grade include Regents School of Austin, Redeemer Lutheran School, Garza ( public ), Austin Discovery School ( public charter ), Austin Jewish Academy, The Austin Waldorf School, The Griffin School, The Khabele School, Concordia Academy, St. Ignatius Martyr Catholic School, Holy Family Catholic School, San Juan Diego Catholic High School, Brentwood Christian School, St. Austin Catholic School, St. Stephen's Episcopal School, St. Mary's, St. Theresa's, St. Michael's Catholic Academy, St. Gabriel's Catholic School, St. Andrew's Episcopal School, St. Francis Episcopal School, Saint Paul Lutheran School, Trinity Episcopal School, Huntington-Surrey, Cleaview Sudbury School, The Inside Outside School, ACE Academy, Paragon Preparatory Middle School, Austin International School, The Progress School and a number of Montessori schools.

) She graduated from Waltrip High School and earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Saint Thomas in Houston.

St. Jerome records that the Christian School of Alexandria was founded by Saint Mark himself.