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

In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.

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

John Newton Late Rector of the United Parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary Woolchurch Haw, London: Volume 1, Nathan Whiting, London.

* 1309 – The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes.

* 1940 – Jill St. John, American actress

* 1879 – The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, reportedly appears at Knock Shrine in Knock, County Mayo, Ireland.

During his tenure he publicly defended the Dominicans against attacks by the secular and regular faculty of the University of Paris, commented on St John, and answered what he perceived as errors of the Arabian philosopher Averroes.

Grimbald and John the Saxon came from Francia ; Plegmund ( whom Alfred appointed archbishop of Canterbury in 890 ), Bishop Werferth of Worcester, Æthelstan, and the royal chaplains Werwulf, from Mercia ; and Asser, from St. David's in south-western Wales.

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

Amathus still flourished and produced a distinguished patriarch of Alexandria, St. John the Merciful, as late as 606-616, and a ruined Byzantine church marks the site ; but it declined and was already almost deserted when Richard Plantagenet won Cyprus by a victory there over Isaac Comnenus in 1191.

He also translated from Greek into Latin a life of St. John Chrysostom ( Venice, 1533 ); the Spiritual Wisdom of John Moschus ; The Ladder of Divine Ascent of St. John Climacus ( Venice, 1531 ), P. G., LXXXVIII.

He also translated many homilies of St. John Chrysostom ; the treatise of the Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite on the celestial hierarchy ; St.

** Beheading of St. John the Baptist

Amongst these were the group Mars and Venus, the colossal figure of Pius VI, the Pietà, the St John, the recumbent Magdalen.

Icon of St. Ephrem ( right ) together with St. George ( top ) and St. John Damascene.

* Catholic Encyclopedia: St. John Damascene

The origins of this book go back to compositions by St. John Damascene.

The monastery also possesses the Wonderworking Icon of the Theotokos " Of the Three Hands " ( Greek: Tricherusa, Serbian: Тројеручицa ), traditionally associated with a miraculous healing of St. John Damascene.

The condemnation of the sect by St John Damascene and Timothy, priest of Constantinople, expressed the view that the sect espoused a sort of mystical materialism.

So with complete justice St. John Damascene could write: " When she became Mother of the Creator, she truly became Queen of every creature.

Regarding emotion ( used synonymously with the word " passion " in this context ), which, following St. John Damascene, Thomas defines as " a movement of the sensitive appetite when we imagine good or evil ," Thomism repudiates both the Epicurean view that happiness consists in pleasure ( sensual experiences that invoke positive emotion ), and the Stoic view that emotions are vices by nature.

The description agrees with the so-called Abgar picture of Jesus ; it also agrees with the portrait of Jesus Christ drawn by Nicephorus, St. John Damascene, and the Book of Painters ( of Mt.

Reference to Oriental monks must here be limited to those who have left a mark upon ecclesiastical literature: Leontius of Byzantium ( d. 543 ), author of a treatise against the Nestorians and Eutychians ; St. Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, one of the most vigorous adversaries of the Monothelite heresy ( P. G., LXXXVII, 3147-4014 ); St. Maximus the Confessor, Abbot of Chrysopolis ( d. 662 ), the most brilliant representative of Byzantine monasticism in the seventh century ; in his writings and letters St. Maximus steadily combated the partisans of the erroneous doctrines of Monothelitism ( ibid., XC and XCI ); St. John Damascene, who may perhaps be included among the Basilians ; St Theodore the Studite ( d. 829 ), the defender of the veneration of sacred images ; his works include theological, ascetic, hagiographical, liturgical, and historical writings ( P. G., XCIX ).

Among the authors of hymns may be mentioned: St. Maximus the Confessor ; St. Theodore the Studite ; St. Romanus the Melodist ; St. Andrew of Crete ; St. John Damascene ; Cosmas of Jerusalem, and St. Joseph the Hymnographer.

Walafrid Strabo, a monk of the Abbey of St. Gall writing in the 9th century, remarked, in discussing the people of Switzerland and the surrounding regions, that only foreigners called them the Alemanni, but that they gave themselves the name of Suevi.

Completed in about 731 ,, Bede was aided in writing this book by Albinus, abbot of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury.

This points to the likelihood that St. Jerome's writing came from rumors and does not represent the situation accurately.

St. Benedict writing the rules, painting ( 1926 ) by Hermann Nigg ( 1849 – 1928 )

Thus, writing to St. Jerome, St. Augustine said, " If that opinion of the creation of new souls is not opposed to this established article of faith let it be also mine ; if it is, let it not be thine.

It began in 2010, and involves St Mary's pupils writing poems and Tony Triggs providing musical settings by himself and his pupils.

St Cyprian's first writing starts out as a speech he made to his friends.

Within several years, he was writing for the Chicago Globe newspaper and then the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

At the end of the 12th century historical writing expanded to the vernacular with Ágrip af Nóregskonungasögum followed by the Legendary Saga of St. Olaf and Fagrskinna.

Those who did not accept the Chalcedonian Christology now call themselves non-Chalcedonian ; historically, they called themselves miaphysites or Cyrillians ( after St Cyril, whose writing On the Unity of Christ was co-opted by the Orientals, and taken as their standard ) and were called by orthodox Christians monophysites.

A room located above St Ann's Gate is where the composer Handel stayed, writing several works while there.

Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, KG, CH, PC, QC, FRS ( 9 October 1907 – 12 October 2001 ), formerly 2nd Viscount Hailsham ( 1950 – 1963 ), was a British politician who was known for the length of his career, the vigour with which he campaigned for the Conservative Party, and the influence of his political writing.

The Risen Christ, displaying his wound from Saint Longinus | Longinus, inspires the writing of St Bridget.

A contemporary clue is found in Asser's own writing: he mentions that bishops of St David's were sometimes expelled by King Hyfaidd and adds that " he even expelled me on occasion ".

Under Emperor Alexios I Komnenos he held the offices of head justice and private secretary ( protasēkrētis ) to the emperor, but after Alexios ' death, he retired to the monastery of St Glykeria, where he spent the rest of his life in writing books.

It has been suggested that the saint mentioned here may be no more than a local saint or a tale that had to explain all the holy places dedicated to a St. Germanus or a ' Garmon ', who may have been a Powys saint or even a bishop from the Isle of Man around the time of writing the Historia Britonum.

He also considered the Texans to be disrespectful toward the government and its leaders, writing in one letter: " Nothing is heard but God damn St. Anna.

At St Albans he was in charge of the scriptorium, or writing room, and he died about 1422.

He supported the archbishop in the latter's efforts to carry out ecclesiastical reforms in that troubled era, rebuilt the Abbey of St. Martin that had been laid waste by the Norsemen, accompanied the archbishop on visitations, and used his leisure for writing.

He began writing songs while still at primary school in St. James, listening to a neighbour's sound system.

* St. Thomas Aquinas experienced an ecstasy during a church service towards the end of his life that caused him to stop writing.

Moore is generally credited with writing " A Visit From St. Nicholas " and was the author of the first Greek and Hebrew lexicons printed in the United States.

One of St Paul's early headmasters was Richard Mulcaster, famous for writing two influential treatises on education ( Positions, in 1581, and Elementarie in 1582 ).