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

The citizens of St. Mary Mead like her but are often tired by her nosy nature and how she seems to expect the worst of everyone.

Miss Marple solves difficult crimes because of her shrewd intelligence, and St. Mary Mead, over her lifetime, has given her seemingly infinite examples of the negative side of human nature.

Overt religious elements include an excerpt from the Rosary prayer on the cornice and planned statues of Mary, specifically Our Lady of the Rosary, and two archangels, St. Michael and St. Gabriel.

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 ).

" Most of the tunes had been previously published, but " Gallaher " and " St. Mary " had not.

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

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

At the age of fourteen he entered the Camaldolese Order in the Monastery of St. Mary of the Angels in Florence, and rapidly became a leading theologian and Hellenist.

He founded the Benedictine priory, now the Priory Church of St Mary, in the late 11th century.

In 1930, Capone's sister Mafalda married John J. Maritote at St. Mary of Częstochowa, a massive Neogothic edifice towering over Cicero Avenue in the Polish Cathedral style.

* The city of Franklin, the parish seat of St. Mary Parish in south Louisiana

Potter and Heelis were married on 15 October 1913 in London at St. Mary Abbots in Kensington.

File: Mosaic2-plw. jpg | Room 49-Hinton St Mary Mosaic, Roman Britain, circa 4th century ( one of the earliest representations of Christ and the only such portrait on a mosaic floor from anywhere in the Roman Empire )

The Roman Catholic Abbey of St Mary and St Petroc, formerly belonging to the Canons Regular of the Lateran was built in 1965 next to the already existing seminary.

A church was planned in the 1930s but delayed by World War II: the Church of St Mary and St Petroc was eventually consecrated in 1965: it was built next to the already existing seminary.

Mary, Queen of Scots | Mary Stuart's personal breviary, which she took with her to the scaffold, is preserved in the National Library of Russia of St. Petersburg

Arms of the great Bristol merchant and shipper William II Canynges ( d. 1474 ), as depicted on his canopied tomb in St Mary Redcliffe Church, showing the couped heads of three Moors wreathed at the temples

The altar in St. Mary Anglican Church, Redcliffe, Bristol.

Southey's wife, Edith Fricker, whom he married at St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, on 14 November 1795, was the sister of Coleridge's wife, Sara Fricker.

On 11 March 1872, a direct connection to the harbour was made in the form of the Bristol Harbour Railway, a joint operation of the three railways, which ran between the passenger station and the goods yard, across the street outside on a bridge, and then descended into a tunnel under the churchyard of St. Mary Redcliffe on its way to a wharf in a more convenient position downstream of Bristol Bridge.

Examples of his history pictures are The Pool of Bethesda and The Good Samaritan, executed in 1736 – 1737 for St Bartholomew's Hospital ; Moses brought before Pharaoh's Daughter, painted for the Foundling Hospital ( 1747, formerly at the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, now in the Foundling Museum ); Paul before Felix ( 1748 ) at Lincoln's Inn ; and his altarpiece for St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol ( 1756 ).

He sang in the church choir at St Mary Redcliffe.

A large number of people attended a funeral service held at St Mary Redcliffe church on 15 March 2010.

St. Mary Redcliffe is an Anglican parish church located in the Redcliffe district of the English port city of Bristol, close to the city centre.

Constructed from the 12th to the 15th centuries, the church is a Grade 1 listed building, St. Mary Redcliffe is renowned for the beauty of its Gothic architecture, having been described by Queen Elizabeth I as " the fairest, goodliest, and most famous parish church in England.

In medieval times, St. Mary Redcliffe, sitting on a red cliff above the River Avon, was a sign to seafarers, who would pray in it at their departure, and give thanks there upon their return.

Other families associated with St Mary Redcliffe include the Penns, the Cabots, the Jays, the Ameryks and the Medes.

In 1571, the school that was to become St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School was formed in a chapel in the churchyard.

During the reign of Queen Anne, and partially funded by her, the interior of St. Mary Redcliffe was refitted in the Baroque style.

Thomas Chatterton, whose father was sexton of St Mary Redcliffe, was born in the house next to the church in 1752.

During the Second World War a bomb exploded in a nearby street, throwing a rail from the tramway over the houses and into the churchyard of St Mary Redcliffe, where it became embedded in the ground.

In St Mary Redcliffe, the Harrison & Harrison organ console of 1911, restored in 1990

Towards the end of his life Arthur Harrison said that he regarded the organ at St Mary Redcliffe as his " finest and most characteristic work ".

* St Mary's Redcliffe Parish Church-dimensions and plans +

Redcliffe, St Mary

His early memorial work included monuments for Thomas Chatterton in the church of St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol ( 1780 ), Mrs Morley in Gloucester Cathedral ( 1784 ), and the Rev.

He was a generous patron of the arts in Bristol, particularly concerning the church of St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol, " The crown of Bristol architecture ".

Arms of William Canynges, as depicted on his canopied tomb in St Mary Redcliffe: Argent, 3 Moors | Moor's heads couped in profile Tincture ( heraldry ) | proper wreathed around the temples of the first and azure ) The shape of the shield, being a late Tudor ( 16th. c or later ) escutcheon ( heraldry ) | escutcheon suggests this is a later addition or possibly repainting.

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.

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 ).

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.

St George's day is the twenty-third of the month ; and St Mark's Eve, with its superstition that the ghosts of those who are doomed to die within the year will be seen to pass into the church, falls on the twenty-fourth.

Kildamhnait on the south east coast of Achill is named after St. Damhnait, or Dymphna, who founded a church there in the 16th century.

St Paul spoke of the ' last times ': " Brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none " ( 1 Corinthians 7: 29 ); " God ... Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son " ( Hebrews 1: 2 ).

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 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.

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.

* The abbot of Sant ' Anselmo di Aventino, in Rome, is styled the " abbot primate ," and is acknowledged the senior abbot for the Order of St. Benedict ( O. S. B.

* An abbot president is the head of a congregation ( federation ) of abbeys within the Order of St. Benedict ( for instance, the English Congregation, The American Cassinese Congregation, etc.

* An archabbot is the head of some monasteries which are the motherhouses of other monasteries ( for instance, St. Vincent's Archabbey, Latrobe, Pennsylvania )

Additionally, at the enthronement of the Archbishop of Canterbury, there is a threefold enthronement, once in the throne the chancel as the diocesan bishop of Canterbury, once in the Chair of St. Augustine as the Primate of All England, and then once in the chapter-house as Titular Abbot of Canterbury.

Adelaide is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide Plains between the Gulf St Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges which surround the city.

This belief follows the theology of St. Paul: For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.

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

Since 2007, the Kelheim Berufsschule has had a campus in Abensberg, and outside the state sector is the St. Francis Vocational Training Centre, run by a Catholic youth organisation.

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 ).