Autpert's election as abbot caused internal dissent at St. Vicenzo, and both Pope Stephen III and Charlemagne intervened.

In Ireland – when it was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland – the Bank Holidays Act 1871 established the feast day of St. Stephen as a non-movable public holiday on 26 December.

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.

According to the 11th century Byzantine historian Georgios Kedrenos an uncial manuscript of Matthew's Gospel, believed to be that found by Anthemios, was then still preserved in the Chapel of St Stephen in the imperial palace.

* 1881 – The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.

* 1978 – The Crown of St. Stephen ( also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary ) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.

" The body of Yekuno Amlak is interred in the monastery of St. Stephen on Daga Island ; other Emperors whose tombs are on Daga include Dawit I, Zara Yaqob, Za Dengel and Fasilides.

Louis Stephen St. Laurent, PC, CC, QC ( Saint-Laurent or St-Laurent in French, baptized Louis-Étienne St-Laurent ), ( 1 February 188225 July 1973 ) was the 12th Prime Minister of Canada from 15 November 1948, to 21 June 1957.

Louis Stephen St-Laurent died from natural causes on 25 July 1973, in Quebec City, Quebec, aged 91, and was laid to rest at St. Thomas Aquinas Cemetery in his hometown of Compton, Quebec.

Orthodox tradition also relates that Mary's brother Lazarus was cast out of Jerusalem in the persecution against the Jerusalem Church following the martyrdom of St. Stephen.

Coincidentally, at the same time, his son Stephen became head of the British Council branch in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Benedict granted an estate, the Massa Veneris, in the territory of Minturnae, to Abbot Stephen of St. Mark's " near the walls of Spoleto " ( St. Gregory I, Ep.

Examples include the font at St. Mary's Church, Nottingham and also the font in the basilica of St. Sophia, Constantinople, the font of St. Stephen d ' Egres, Paris ; at St. Menin's Abbey, Orléans ; at Dulwich College ; and at the following churches: Worlingworth ( Suffolk ), Harlow ( Essex ), Knapton ( Norfolk ), St Martin, Ludgate ( London ), and Hadleigh ( Suffolk ).

* " St. Stephen, Pope and Martyr ", Butler's Lives of the Saints

By this stage, Stephen had returned to the Lateran, and he was confronted in the Basilica of St. Theodore by the fleeing Afiarta and his co-conspirators being chased by Christophorus and his supporters.

The next day, Stephen fled to St. Peter ’ s Basilica to seek the protection of Desiderius.

Mieszko I's burial site, believed to be found in 1952 at the Archcathedral Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul, Poznań | Poznań Cathedral, was vandalized, possibly by Bretislaus I, Duke of Bohemia, in 1039.

St Pius I's feast day is celebrated on July 11.

The exarch arrived, demanded the gold, and looted Old St. Peter's Basilica, but departed after Sergius I's consecration.

Prime examples of early Byzantine architecture date from Justinian I's reign and survive in Ravenna and Istanbul, as well as in Sofia ( the Church of St Sophia ).

St. André therefore desperately wanted the two to attend Toft ; after George I's accession to the throne the Whigs had become the dominant political faction, and Manningham and Douglas ' Whig affiliations and medical knowledge might have elevated his status as both doctor and philosopher.

In June 2004, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I's visit to Rome for the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul ( 29 June ) afforded him the opportunity for another personal meeting with Pope John Paul II, for conversations with the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and for taking part in the celebration for the feast day in St. Peter's Basilica.

1628, the Stadtholders and their Wives ( Amsterdam and Hague ), Charles Louis and Rupert, Charles I's nephews ( Louvre, St Petersburg, Combe Abbey and Willin ), and Lord Craven, ( National Portrait Gallery, London ). Honthorst's early style can be seen in the Lute-player ( 1614 ) at the Louvre, the Martyrdom of St John in Santa.

Whilst saying mass in the Chapel Royal of St James's Palace on 25 December 1558 he incurred the wrath of a furious Queen Elizabeth I ( who had succeeded her half-sister Mary I on the latter's death on 17 November ) when, contrary to her explicit instructions, he elevated the host, thereby implying the corporeal presence of Christ — an anathema to Elizabeth I's more Protestant religious beliefs.

Alexander Nowell ( c. 1507 – 13 February 1602 ) was an English Puritan theologian and clergyman, who served as dean of St Paul's during much of Elizabeth I's reign.

James I of England | James I's Coat of Arms | Royal Coat in St Mary's Church

The exarch arrived, demanded the gold, and looted Old St. Peter's Basilica, but departed after Sergius I's consecration ( 15 December 687 ).

The exarch arrived, demanded the gold, and looted Old St. Peter's Basilica, but departed after Sergius I's consecration ( 15 December 687 ).

Constantius I " Chlorus " married twice ; his first wife St. Helena bore him a son, Constantine I whose second wife Fausta ( daughter of Maximian and Eutropia ; sister of Maxentius ; half-sister of Constantius I's second wife Theodora ) bore him three sons ( Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans I ) and two daughters ( Constantia and Helena ); these children were nieces and nephews of Maxentius, half-nieces and half-nephews of Licinius ( who had married their father's half-sister ), and grandchildren of Maximian.

António Manuel de Vieira, known in Russia as Count Anton Manuilovich Devier, Антон Мануилович Девиер ( 1682 ?—), was one of Peter I's foreign associates, who proved to be an efficient administrator in St Petersburg and Siberia.

St Albert's feast day is celebrated on November 15.

In 1969, the Roman Catholic Church assigned the feast to 26 January so as to celebrate the two disciples of Paul, Titus and Timothy, on the day after the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.

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 >

St. Columbanus is named in the Roman Martyrology on 23 November, but his feast is kept by the Benedictines and throughout Ireland on 24 November.

St. Cyril's feast day is commemorated on March 18.

In the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic calendar of saints, it was decided to leave the celebration of the feast of St Peter of Verona to local calendars, because he was not as well known worldwide, and Saint Catherine's feast was restored to its traditional date of April 29.

Unlike in many other Christian countries, St. Nicholas does not play a major role in Polish Christmas, but instead, is celebrated on his Saint feast day of December 6.

Sometimes the trees are left standing until February 2, the feast day of St. Mary of the Candle of Lightning.

The expression The Lord's Supper, derived from St. Paul's usage in, may have originally referred to the Agape feast, the shared communal meal with which the Eucharist was originally associated.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux, whose feast falls on 20 August, became the Patron Saint of Gibraltar.

St. John's feast day is March 30 in both the East and West.

The Tridentine Calendar also had on 6 May a feast of " St John before the Latin Gate ", associated with a tradition recounted by Saint Jerome that St John was brought to Rome during the reign of the Emperor Domitian, and was thrown in a vat of boiling oil, from which he was miraculously preserved unharmed.

Lammas coincides with the feast of St. Peter in Chains, commemorating St. Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison.

Several antiquaries beginning with John Brady offered a back-construction to its being originally known as Lamb-mass, under the undocumented supposition that tenants of the Cathedral of York, dedicated to St. Peter ad Vincula, of which this is the feast, would have been required to bring a live lamb to the church, or, with John Skinner, " because Lambs then grew out of season.

* May 1 is the feast of St. Joseph the worker in the Roman Catholic calendar.

St. Mathilda's feast day according to the German calendar of saints is on March 14.

The traditional Roman Catholic feast day dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene celebrated her position as a penitent.

Paulinus wrote an annual hymn ( natalicium ) in honor of St. Felix for the feast day when processions of pilgrims were at their peak.

The feast of St. Marcellus, whose name is to this day borne by the church at Rome mentioned in the above legend, is still celebrated on January 16.