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.

Fresco icon of St. Nestor of Thessaloniki, Disciple ( Christianity ) | disciple of St. Demetrius.

Icon ographic drawing of St. Nestor the Chronicler, 1919, Viktor Vasnetsov ( St Volodymyr's Cathedral | St. Vladimir Cathedral, Kiev ).

St Nestor died around the year 1114, and was buried in the Near Caves.

His life story was reconstructed in a short novel written in 1840 by Nestor Kukolnik and a play by Peter Smirnov staged at the Alexandrine Theatre in St. Petersburg.

He is said to have continued the work of St Nestor the Chronicler and written nine Lives of the holy saints of the Kiev Caves.

Additionally, in an apparent oblique reference to an event in February 1916 in which a Galleanist operative in Chicago, Nestor Dondoglio, served poisoned soup to a host of political, religious and business leaders, San Francisco police recovered two unsigned letters urging the headwaiter at the St. Francis Hotel to serve poisoned soup to Police Commissioner James Woods, one of the organizers of the Preparedness Day march, when Woods next came to dine there.

According to the Primary Chronicle of St. Nestor the Chronicler, the inhabitants of Constantinople called upon the intercession of the Mother of God to protect them from an attack by a large Russian fleet ( Russia was still pagan at the time ).

Chronicler Leonti Mroveli mentions that after the conversion of the King Mirian II and the Queen Nana into Christianity in the early 4th century, St. Nino continued to preach among Georgian highlanders ( მთიულნი, mtiulni ) including Pkhovi.

The custom of setting apart a special day for intercession for certain of the faithful on November 2 was first established by St. Odilo of Cluny ( d. 1048 ) at his abbey of Cluny in 998.

The first undoubted instance is the bull by which Alexander II in 1063 granted the use of the mitre to Egelsinus, abbot of the monastery of St Augustine at Canterbury.

* 1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.

Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).

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.

Remarkably, Alfred, undoubtedly with the advice and aid of his court scholars, translated four works himself: Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care, Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, St. Augustine's Soliloquies, and the first fifty psalms of the Psalter.

The first half is based mainly on the Soliloquies of St Augustine of Hippo, the remainder is drawn from various sources, and contains much that is Alfred's own and highly characteristic of him.

He was first deacon of church of St Bartholomew in his native Liège and was then appointed ( c. 1100 ) to St. Lambert's Cathedral.

Absalon first appears in Saxo Grammaticus's contemporary chronicle Gesta Danorum at the end of the civil war, at the brokering of the peace agreement between Sweyn III and Valdemar at St. Alban's Priory, Odense.

* 1583 – Sir Humphrey Gilbert establishes the first English colony in North America, at what is now St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

* Canova's Three Graces ( first version ) in the Hermitage museum, St. Petersburg

While Aristotle likewise identifies the first two characteristics, St. Thomas conceives of the third as an appropriation from principles developed by neo-Platonic and Augustinian thinkers.

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.

His few remaining masses ( the story of his having composed two hundred is hardly credible ) and church music in general are comparatively unimportant, except the great St Cecilia Mass ( 1721 ), which is one of the first attempts at the style which reached its height in the great masses of Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven.

In 1831, Pike left Massachusetts to travel west, first stopping in St. Louis and later moving on to Independence, Missouri.

His first signed works date to c. 1506, including engravings and drawings such the Stygmata of St. Francis and St.

Then, he tied for first with Alexander Alekhine at St. Petersburg 1913 / 14 ( the eighth All-Russian Masters ' Tournament ).

In December, 2007, St. George Absinthe Verte, produced by St. George Spirits became the first brand of American-made absinthe to be legally produced in the United States since a ban was enacted in 1912.

* 1902 – Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg.

These and other works raised his reputation so high that the most flattering offers were sent to him from the Russian court to induce him to remove to St Petersburg, but these were declined, although many of his finest works made their way to the Hermitage Museum.

* The Mystery of Unction Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Washington, DC

Visitors and merchants were especially struck by the beautiful monasteries and churches of the city, in particular, Hagia Sophia, or the Church of Holy Wisdom: A Russian 14th-century traveler, Stephen of Novgorod, wrote, " As for St Sophia, the human mind can neither tell it nor make description of it.

The Miracle of St. Michael at Chonae, a 15th-century Russian icon.

The Wedding of Nicholas II and Grand duke | Grand Duchess Alexandra Fyodorovna ( Alix of Hesse ) | Alexandra Feodorovna, by Ilya Repin | Ilya Yefimovich Repin, 1894 ( Russian Museum | Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg | St. Petersburg ).

* Order of St George, Fourth Class of the Russian Empire-1916

The 1907 Anglo-Russian Entente ( the Convention of St. Petersburg ) not only divided the region into separate areas of Russian and British influence but also established foundations for Afghan neutrality.

The Yupik are indigenous or aboriginal peoples who live along the coast of western Alaska, especially on the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta and along the Kuskokwim River ( Central Alaskan Yup ' ik ), in southern Alaska ( the Alutiiq ) and along the eastern coast of Chukotka in the Russian Far East and St. Lawrence Island in western Alaska ( the Siberian Yupik ).

Siberian Yupik reside along the Bering Sea coast of the Chukchi Peninsula in Siberia in the Russian Far East and in the villages of Gambell and Savoonga on St. Lawrence Island in Alaska.

In childhood he visited the Imperial Court of Russia at St Petersburg and became intimate with the doomed Russian Imperial Family, harbouring romantic feelings towards Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, whose photograph he kept at his bedside for the rest of his life.

By some accounts, in the St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament, the title " Grandmaster " was formally conferred by Russian Tsar Nicholas II, who had partially funded the tournament.

Some ' Russian letters ' found in one version of St. Cyril's life are explainable as misspelled ' Syrian letters ' ( in Slavic, the roots are very similar: rus-vs. sur-or syr -), etc.

The grave of Princess Yourievsky ( 1878-1959 ) who was a member of the ill-fated Russian Royal family and who lived in North Hayling for many years, may be found in St. Peter's churchyard ; and the grave of Scotsman George Glas Sandeman, nephew of the founder of Sandeman Port and second head of that company, is prominently featured in the north-east part of St. Mary's graveyard.

File: Karl Briullov, The Last Day of Pompeii ( 1827 – 1833 ). jpg | Karl Bryullov, The Last Day of Pompeii, 1827-1833, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

File: Repin Cossacks. jpg | Ilya Repin, Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, 1880-1891, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

At 16, he entered the Russian Orthodox monastic life at the Trinity-St. Sergius Hermitage near St. Petersburg.

An example is Vasilyevsky Island in the Russian city of St. Petersburg, which had its western shore extended westward by some 0. 5 km due to the construction of a new sea terminal.

* 1724 – The Russian Academy of Sciences is founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented by Senate decree.

Russian Orthodox Icon of St. Jacob, 18th century ( Iconostasis of Kizhi monastery, Russia ).

White killer whales occur sporadically but rarely among normal killer whales ; they have been spotted in the northern Bering Sea and around St. Lawrence Island, and near the Russian coast.