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.

In the following year he became provisional Principal of the Theological College of Saint Thomas ( from which he had just graduated ), and in 1903 his appointment was made permanent.

He certainly corresponded with Elias III, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and possibly sent a mission to India in honour of Saint Thomas the Apostle, whose tomb was believed to lie in that country.

Saint Thomas Aquinas's aesthetic is probably the most famous and influential theory among medieval authors, having been the subject of much scrutiny in the wake of the neo-Scholastic revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and even having received the approbation of the celebrated Modernist writer, James Joyce.

It was consecrated in 1197 with a dedication to the deceased Saint Thomas Becket, whom the king had met at the English court.

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

In the 13th century Saint Thomas Aquinas aimed to recapture the teachings of the Church Fathers on the role of the Holy Trinity in the economy of salvation.

* International Council of Universities of Saint Thomas Aquinas

She was also a patron of Renaissance humanism, and a friend of the great scholars Erasmus of Rotterdam and Saint Thomas More.

In the 13th century, Saint Thomas Aquinas provided the first systematic Christology that consistently resolved a number of the existing issues.

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The tales ( mostly written in verse although some are in prose ) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.

This studium was transformed into the Order's first studium provinciale by Saint Thomas Aquinas in 1265.

Part of the curriculum of this studium was relocated in 1288 at the studium of Santa Maria sopra Minerva which in the 16th century world be transformed into the College of Saint Thomas ().

In the 20th century the college would be relocated to the convent of Saints Dominic and Sixtus and would be transformed into the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum.

* Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas

The medieval universities of Western Christendom were well-integrated across all of Western Europe, encouraged freedom of enquiry and produced a great variety of fine scholars and natural philosophers, including Thomas Aquinas of the University of Naples, Robert Grosseteste of the University of Oxford, an early expositor of a systematic method of scientific experimentation ; and Saint Albert the Great, a pioneer of biological field research The University of Bologne is considered the oldest continually operating university.

The Saint Thomas Christians (" Nasrani ") of southwestern India may have connections with the Essenes, according to the Manimekalai, one of the great Tamil epic poems, which refers to a people called " Issani ".

* 1837 – Thomas Burgess, English author, philosopher, Bishop of Saint David's and Bishop of Salisbury ( b. 1756 )

Saint Thomas Aquinas, the greatest of the medieval scholastics, refused to admit the Immaculate Conception, on the ground that, unless the Blessed Virgin had at one time or other been one of the sinful, she could not justly be said to have been redeemed by Christ.

1274 ), second only to Saint Thomas in his influence on the Christian schools of his age, hesitated to accept it for a similar reason.

Personalistic idealists Borden Parker Bowne and Edgar S. Brightman and realistic personal theist Saint Thomas Aquinas address a core issue, namely that of dependence upon an infinite personal God.

* 1624 – Sir Thomas Warner founds the first British colony in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts.

Saint Thomas Aquinas of Aquin, or Aquino ( c. 1225 – 7 March 1274 ) was a philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition, known as " Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Universalis ".

Saint Thomas Aquinas described the Limbo of Infants as an eternal state of natural joy, untempered by any sense of loss at how much greater their joy might have been had they been baptized.

Because of his path-finding synthesis of Aristotle and Biblical faith, Maimonides also had a fundamental influence on the great Church theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

The Arabs lost sight of Aristotle's political science but continued to study Plato's Republic which became the basic text of Judeo-Islamic political philosophy as in the works of Alfarabi and Averroes ; this did not happen in the Christian world, where Aristotle's Politics was translated in the 13th century and became the basic text as in the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Saint Thomas Aquinas addressed ben Sirach -- and, by extension, Wittgenstein -- in the First Article, First Part, of his Summa Theologica:

Later, a teleological argument is the fifth of Saint Thomas Aquinas ' Five Ways, his rational proofs for the existence of God.

It was only later in the thirteenth century that Aristotelian metaphysics was accepted and a philosophical elaboration in line with that metaphysics was developed, which found classic formulation in the teaching of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Saint Thomas Aquinas, commenting on Aristotle's objection, wrote " Instants are not parts of time, for time is not made up of instants any more than a magnitude is made of points, as we have already proved.

* 1273 – December 6 – Saint Thomas Aquinas quits his writing of Summa Theologica — a work considered within the Roman Catholic Church to be the paramount expression of its theology — leaving it unfinished after having a mystical experience during Mass.

* 1274 – March 7 – Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic theologian ( b. 1225 )

* March 7 – Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian Catholic theologian ( b. 1225 )

While there, Father Sarto expanded his knowledge of theology, studying both Saint Thomas Aquinas and canon law, while carrying out most of the functions of the parish pastor, who was quite ill.

Bonaventure was formally canonized in 1484 by the Franciscan Pope Sixtus IV, and ranked along with Saint Thomas Aquinas as the greatest of the Doctors of the Church by another Franciscan Pope Sixtus V, in 1587.

The Catholic Church operates two schools in Hammond: Saint Thomas Aquinas High School, which is just north of the city, and Holy Ghost Catholic School ( pre-kindergarten through 8th grades ).

At the age of twenty-one, he joined the city ’ s Guild of Saint Luke and later became dean.

Electrothermal AAS ( ET AAS ) using graphite tube atomizers was pioneered by Boris V. L ’ vov at the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical Institute, Russia, since the late 1950s, and further investigated by Hans Massmann at the Institute of Spectrochemistry and Applied Spectroscopy ( ISAS ) in Dortmund, Germany.

In Acts of the Apostles, Ephesian metal smiths who felt threatened by Saint Paul ’ s preaching of Christianity, jealously rioted in her defense, shouting “ Great is Diana of the Ephesians !” ( Acts 19: 28, New English Bible ).

He founded the men's Franciscan Order, the women ’ s Order of St. Clare, and the lay Third Order of Saint Francis.

Shooting began on March 16, 1959 with Anita Ekberg climbing the stairs to the cupola of Saint Peter ’ s in a mammoth décor constructed at Cinecittà.

** Grolla d ’ Oro at Saint Vincent Film Festival for Best Director

* A. Terian, Patriotism And Piety In Armenian Christianity: The Early Panegyrics On Saint Gregory, St Vladimir ’ s Seminary Press, 2005

* The Estoire del Saint Graal, the first part of the Vulgate Cycle ( but written after Lancelot and the Queste ), based on Robert ’ s tale but expanding it greatly with many new details.

Konrad Kurzbold laid the foundation stone for Saint George ’ s Monastery Church, where he was also buried.

Saint George ’ s Cathedral ( Sankt-Georgs-Dom ) built on the old monastery church ’ s site, and also called Georgsdom, was consecrated in 1235.

Both orders soon set about constructing churches and schools, the most notable of which were the Jesuit Cathedral of Saint Paul and the St. Dominic ’ s Church built by the Dominicans.

They called the island " Santa Apolonia " (" Saint Apollonia ") in honor of that day ’ s saint.

* Saint Patrick ’ s Day

* Saint Patrick ’ s Day

According to Vasari, Uccello ’ s first painting was a Saint Anthony between the saints Cosmas and Damianus, a commission for the hospital of Lelmo.

He rebuilt the atrium of St. Peter ’ s Basilica, and within the newly decorated chapel within the basilica he transferred the body of Saint Gregory, and from the Catacombs of Rome, he moved Saint Sebastian, Saint Tiburtius, and Saint Gorgonius.

Apart from noting that both men were already married, he reminded them of their promises to previous popes, that they would consider the pope ’ s enemies as their enemies, and that they had promised to Saint Peter to resist the Lombards and restore the rights of the Church.

Very popular among the Roman people, within ten days of Leo III ’ s death, he was escorted to Saint Peter ’ s Basilica and consecrated Bishop of Rome on 22 June 816.

At this time, under the abbot Gilduin, Saint Victor was a thriving community and upon Gilduin ’ s death, the abbey had 44 dependant houses of canons.