* Port Eliot House, home of the Earl of St. Germans contains many fine works by Reynolds, including a rare view of Plymouth.

** American forces push back the Germans in St.

* September 21 – Battle of St. Matthew's Day: The Germans defeat the Estonians.

These chapels are known as the " Chapels of the Tongues ", and they are devoted to St. Ansgar, patron of Denmark, who is venerated as an apostle to the Scandinavian countries ; St. Boniface, apostle of the Germans ; St. Columba, patron of Ireland and Scotland ; St. Savior ( Holy Savior ), devoted to immigrants from the east, especially Africa and Asia ; St. Martin of Tours, patron of the French ; St. Ambrose, patron of Italy ; and St. James, patron of Spain.

On 20 August an operation by British tanks, artillery and infantry captured strongpoints along the St Julien – Poelkappelle road and two days later more ground was gained by XVIII and XIX Corps, which left them still overlooked by the Germans in the uncaptured part of the Wilhelm ( third ) Line.

In 723, the Anglo-Saxon missionary Winfrid — subsequently called St. Boniface, Apostle of the Germans — proselytizing among the Chatti, felled their sacred tree, Thor's Oak, near Fritzlar, as part of his efforts to compel the conversion of the Chatti and the other northern Germanic tribes to Christianity.

Peter ’ s palace is the only one of the famous palaces in the St. Petersburg area that was not captured by the Germans during Second World War.

Shortly after the Peace of Ryswick ( 1697 ), the English and Germans abolished the pike and introduced ring bayonets ; and plates of them are given in Surirey de St. Remy's Mémoires d ' Artillerie, published in Paris in that year ; but owing to a military cabal they were not issued to the French infantry until 1703, using a spring-loaded locking system to prevent the bayonet from accidentally separating from the musket.

Americans were always a major presence at Rijsoord, Egmond, Grèz-sur-Loing, Laren and St Ives ; Grèz-sur-Loing went through a Scandinavian phase in the 1880s ; and Germans were the largest group after the indigenous Dutch at Katwijk.

On and off, for nearly 30 years, he worked on his great masterpiece, the Riddle Mural in the Round Room at Port Eliot house, home of the Earl of St. Germans, but died before its completion.

* Port Eliot House, St. Germans, Cornwall-home of the masterpiece, the Riddle Mural

* Edward Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans ( 1798 – 1877 ), politician

The Irish had St. John the Evangelist, the Slovaks had St. John the Baptist, the Lithuanians had St. Casimir's, the Germans had St. Mary's Assumption, and the Italians had St. Rocco's and Our Lady of Mount Carmel. There is also a Byzantine Catholic Church on Main Street ( St. Michael's ).

Tolstoy was founded in 1907 by Germans from Russia, as a station stop on a branch line of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway built that year between Conde and LeBeau, South Dakota.

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

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.

There he also received instruction in piano and counterpoint from professor Gustav Jacobsthal, and associated closely with Ernest Munch ( the brother of his former teacher ), organist of St William church, who was also a passionate admirer of J. S.

Similarly in St Peter: " Christ .. Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you " ( 1 Peter 1: 20 ), and " But the end of all things is at hand " ( 1 Peter 4: 7 ).

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 legend connected with its foundation is given by Peter Damiani in his Life of St Odilo: a pilgrim returning from the Holy Land was cast by a storm on a desolate island.

By the Rule of St Benedict, which, until the Cluniac reforms, was the norm in the West, the abbot has jurisdiction over only one community.

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.

When abbots dined in their own private hall, the Rule of St Benedict charged them to invite their monks to their table, provided there was room, on which occasions the guests were to abstain from quarrels, slanderous talk and idle gossiping.

Even the abbey of St Denis was held in commendam by Hugh Capet.

Theodosius ' wife St Flacilla was instrumental in his campaign to end Arianism.

The Mariner's Cross is also referred to as St. Clement's Cross, in reference to the way this saint was martyred ( being tied to an anchor and thrown from a boat into the Black Sea in 102 ).

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.

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 ).

It was recorded in St. Paul's, the chapel at Columbia University, chosen for the acoustics.

From 796 until his death he was Abbot of the great monastery of St. Martin of Tours where he founded a library by obtaining copies of books from libraries in his native England.

Damaged buildings included the medieval churches of St. Foillan, St. Paul and St. Nicholas, and the Rathaus ( city hall ), although Aachen Cathedral was largely unscathed.

She died broken-hearted in July of the next year, at the castle of Poissy, and was buried in the Convent of St Corentin, near Nantes.

Another sister, Gertrude, married Andrew II of Hungary and was the mother of St. Elizabeth of Hungary.

The ' far-away light ' () is a reference to St Elmo's Fire, an electrical discharge supposed by ancient Greek mariners to be an epiphany of the Dioscuri, but the meaning of the line was obscured by gaps in the papyrus until reconstructed by a modern scholar — such reconstructions are typical of the extant poetry ( see Scholars, fragments and sources below ).

In the late sixth century, Ayios Ioannis Eleimonas ( Saint John the Charitable ), protector of the Knights of St. John, was born in Amathus.

In 1896, delegates from the stronger and wealthier VFA clubs — Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne — met to form a breakaway competition and in 1897, the Victorian Football League ( VFL ), was born as an eight-team competition.

The success of the ensemble was emulated by other regional conductors, and a rich tradition of a cappella choral music was born in the region at colleges like Concordia College ( Moorhead, Minnesota ), Augustana College ( Rock Island, Illinois ), Wartburg College ( Waverly, Iowa ), Luther College ( Decorah, Iowa ), Gustavus Adolphus College ( St. Peter, Minnesota ), Augustana College ( Sioux Falls, South Dakota ), and Augsburg College ( Minneapolis, Minnesota ).

St Athanasius was born in the city of Alexandria or possibly the nearby Nile Delta town of Damanhur ca.

St Athanasius was an Egyptian born in the city of Alexandria or possibly the nearby Nile Delta town of Damanhur.

The latest biography of Khmelnytsky by Smoliy and Stepankov, however, challenges the 27 December date and suggests that it is more likely he was born on 9 November ( feast day of St Zenoby ,< ref >

The youngest son of William Edward Parkinson ( 1871 – 1927 ), an art master at North East County School and from 1913 principal of York School of Arts and Crafts, and his wife, Rose Emily Mary Curnow ( born 1877 ), the young Parkinson attended St. Peter's School, York, where in 1929 he won an Exhibition to study history at Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge.

Catullus came from a leading equestrian family of Verona in Cisalpine Gaul, and according to St. Jerome, he was born in the town.

St. Jerome says that he died in his 30th year, and was born in 87 BC.

His father was born into slavery in 1851 in Pittsboro, North Carolina ; after the Civil War, he graduated from St. Augustine's College and became a prominent minister and founder of St. Michael's Episcopal Church.

Camille Pissarro () ( 10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903 ) was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas ( now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies ).

" Two Women Chatting By The Sea ," St. Thomas, ( 1856 ) Camille Pissarro was born on July 10, 1830 on the island of St. Thomas to Frederick and Rachel Pissarro.

This is referred to as " being born of water and the Spirit ", following the terminology in the Gospel of St. John.

Daniel Foe ( his original name ) was probably born in the parish of St. Giles Cripplegate, London.

Bannister was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick and moved to New England in the late 1840s, where he remained for the rest of his life.

Shepard was born in St John's Wood, London.

Wallach was born in Red Hook, Brooklyn at 166 Union St., the son of Polish Jewish immigrants Bertha ( née Schorr ) and Abraham Wallach.

House where Zwingli was born in Wildhaus in what is now the Canton of St. Gallen.

Secombe was born in rooms in the Danygraig Area of St. Thomas and later the family moved to a council house in the St Thomas district of Swansea, the third of four children of Nellie Jane Gladys ( née Davies ), a shop manageress, and Frederick Ernest Secombe, a grocer .< ref >

Purcell was born in St Ann's Lane Old Pye Street, Westminster.

It is not known where either St John of Sinai or St Hesychios were born, nor where they received their monastic formation.