St Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologica, II: II Quaestio 25, Article 4 states that we should love our neighbour more than our ourselves.

St Thomas interprets ' You should love your neighbour as yourself ' from Leviticus 19 and Matthew 22 as meaning that love for ourselves is the exemplar of love for others.

* St. Ada, 7th-century French abbess

* In 1534, Jacques Cartier entered the Gulf of St. Lawrence and reached the mouth of the St. Lawrence River.

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use ( as " Androides ") to Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, in reference to an automaton that St. Albertus Magnus allegedly created.

The family was Byzantine Catholic and attended St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic Church.

* World TeamTennis, currently playing for the St. Louis Aces.

The oldest-surviving Anglican church outside of the British Isles ( Britain and Ireland ) is St Peter's Church in St. George's, Bermuda, established in 1612 ( though the actual building had to be rebuilt several times over the following century ).

During this period winter sports were slowly introduced: in 1882 the first figure skating championship was held in St. Moritz, and downhill skiing became a trendy sport with English visitors early in the 20th century, as the first ski-lift was installed in 1908 above Grindelwald.

In the first half of the 20th century the Olympic Winter Games were held three times in Alpine venues: the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France ; the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland ; and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

During World II the winter games were canceled but after that time the Winter Games have been held in St. Moritz ( 1948 ), Innsbruck, Austria ( 1964 and 1976 ), Grenoble, France, ( 1968 ), Albertville, France, ( 1992 ), and Torino, Italy, ( 2006 ).

Paneloux's argument is based on the theology of St. Augustine, on which he is an expert, and it is accepted as irrefutable by many of the townspeople, including the magistrate, Othon.

Miss Marple is an elderly spinster who lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur detective.

Upon his appointment, St. Ambrose fled to a colleague's home seeking to hide.

Upon receiving a letter from the Emperor Gratian praising the appropriateness of Rome appointing individuals evidently worthy of holy positions, St. Ambrose's host gave Ambrose up.

Painting of St. Ambrose with whip and book in the church of San Giuseppe alla Lungara, RomeAn address by Ambrose to Christian young people warns them against intermarriage with Jews (" De Abrahamo ," ix.

Drawing based on a statue of St. Ambrose

St. Ambrose, by Francisco de Zurbarán

St. Ambrose was also traditionally credited with composing the hymn Te Deum, which he is said to have composed when he baptised St. Augustine of Hippo, his celebrated convert.

* St. Ambrose Basilica, Milan

* Early Christian writings: Letters of St. Ambrose of Milan

*" St. Ambrose, Bishop and Confessor, Doctor of the Church ", Butler's Lives of the Saints

*" St. Ambrose " in Christian Iconography

*" Of St. Ambrose " from the Caxton translation of the Golden Legend

Dom Mabillon's Letters and Orations of St. Ambrose of Camaldoli was published at Florence, 1759.

This order is known from a bull of Pope Gregory XI addressed to the monks of the church of St Ambrose outside Milan.

In 1589 Pope Sixtus V united to the Congregation of St Ambrose the monasteries of a group known as the " Brothers of the Apostles of the Poor Life " ( or " Apostolini " or " Brothers of St. Barnabas "), whose houses were in the province of Genoa and in the March of Ancona.

The Nuns of St Ambrose ( Ambrosian Sisters ) wore a habit of the same colour as the Brothers of St Ambrose, conformed to their constitutions, and followed the Ambrosian Rite, but were independent in government.

Another group of cloistered " Nuns of St Ambrose ", also called the Annunciatae ( Italian: Annunziate ) of Lombardy or " Sisters of St Marcellina ", were founded in 1408 by three young women of Pavia, Dorothea Morosini, Eleonora Contarini, and Veronica Duodi.

* St. Ambrose

* St. Ambrose University

Of these the precedence was originally yielded to the abbot of Glastonbury, until in AD 1154 Adrian IV ( Nicholas Breakspear ) granted it to the abbot of St Alban's, in which monastery he had been brought up.

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.

The first Archbishop of Canterbury was St Augustine ( not to be confused with St Augustine of Hippo ), who arrived in Kent in 597 AD, having been sent by Pope Gregory I on a mission to the English.

After the victory, in 534, the Temple treasure of Jerusalem, looted by the Romans in 70 AD and taken to Carthage by the Vandals after their sack of Rome in 455, was brought to Constantinople and deposited for a time, perhaps in the Church of St. Polyeuctus, before being returned to Jerusalem in either the Church of the Resurrection or the New Church.

St John Damascene, writing in the 8th century AD, also notes of an earlier sect called the " Cathari ", in his book On Heresies, taken from the epitome provided by Epiphanius of Salamis in his Panarion.

The name of a settlement was recorded after St. Adalbert's death in 997 AD as urbs Gyddanyzc and later was written as Kdanzk ( 1148 ), Gdanzc ( 1188 ), Danceke ( 1228 ), Gdansk ( 1236, 1454, 1468, 1484, 1590 ), Danzc ( 1263 ), Danczk ( 1311, 1399, 1410, 1414 – 1438 ), Danczik ( 1399, 1410, 1414 ), Danczig ( 1414 ), Gdąnsk ( 1636 ).

The English term " Gnosticism " derives from the use of the Greek adjective gnostikos (" learned ", " intellectual ", Greek γνωστικός ) by St. Irenaeus ( c. 185 AD ) to describe the school of Valentinus as he legomene gnostike haeresis " the heresy called Learned ( gnostic )".

However, it should be noted that the Latin Vulgate translation was a work that St. Jerome began in 382 AD, centuries after the death of Barnabas.

The Galatians were still speaking the Galatian language ( Gaulish ) in the time of St. Jerome ( 347 – 420 AD ), who wrote that the Galatians of Ancyra and the Treveri of Trier ( in what is now the German Rhineland ) spoke the same language ( Comentarii in Epistolam ad Galatos, 2. 3, composed c. 387 ).

Much of the post-Roman development of St Albans was in memorial to Saint Alban, the earliest known British Christian martyr, executed in AD 250 ( the exact date is unknown, with scholars suggesting dates of 209, 254 and 304 ).

Following the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43, the aboriginal Catuvellauni quickly submitted and adapted to the Roman life ; resulting in the development of several new towns, including Verulamium ( St Albans ).

St. Irenaeus (; Greek: ), ( 2nd century AD – c. 202 ) was Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, then a part of the Roman Empire ( now Lyons, France ).

Latin was the language of the ancient Romans, but it was also the lingua franca of Europe throughout the middle ages, so Latin literature includes not only Roman authors like Cicero, Vergil, Ovid and Lucretius, but also includes European writers after the fall of the Empire from religious writers like St. Augustine ( 354 – 430 AD ), to secular writers like Francis Bacon ( 1561-1626 ) and Spinoza ( 1632 – 1677 ).

In Western culture, a letter written by St. Augustine of Hippo in 415 AD about a story of a dreamer, Doctor Gennadius, refers to lucid dreaming.

The writings in these codices, dating back to the 2nd century AD, comprised 52 mostly Gnostic tractates ( treatises ), believed to be a library hidden by monks from the nearby monastery of St Pachomius when the possession of such banned writings, denounced as heresy, was made an offence.

Indian Orthodoxy traces its roots to the arrival in India of St. Thomas the Apostle in AD 52 ( according to tradition ) and his evangelism among both the Brahmans of the Malabar Coast and the ancient Jewish community there.

By about the 4th century AD the writer of satires came to be known as satyricus ; St. Jerome, for example, was called by one of his enemies ' a satirist in prose ' (' satyricus scriptor in prosa ').

St Augustine of Hippo ( 354 AD – 430 ) in his Augustinian theodicy focuses on the Genesis story that essentially dictates that God created the world and that it was good ; evil is merely a consequence of the fall of man ( The story of the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve disobeyed God and caused inherent sin for man ).

Some historians place it later, at around 200 AD, but they suggest that the Arawaks may have been preceded by the Ciboney Indians, who are thought to have settled in nearby St. Thomas as early as 300 BC.

The Golden Legend of 1260 AD recounts how St. Valentine refused to deny Christ before the " Emperor Claudius " in 270 AD and as a result was beheaded.

The school originated as a medieval cathedral school, and it is often claimed ( e. g. by the historian Arthur Leach in a letter to The Times in 1896, and in the Guinness Book of Records ) to have been founded in AD 597 by St. Augustine, therefore making it the world's oldest extant school.

* Church of St. John the Baptist ( AD 717 )

About 500 AD, the Burgundian Princess Sedeleuba took the bones of St. Victor to Geneva, while the bones of St. Ursus remained in Solothurn.