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.

The Choir Organ at St. Thomas, Strasbourg, designed in 1905 on principles defined by Albert Schweitzer.

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.

While Dampier was captain of the St. George, Selkirk served on the galley Cinque Ports, the St. Georges companion, as a sailing master serving under Thomas Stradling.

Between Roman Catholicism and royal supremacy there is, as St Thomas More concluded, no reconciliation ".

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.

* 1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig

Abbey Seal ( device ) | seal, depicting murder of St Thomas.

In a single sentence, parallel to Aristotle's statement asserting that being is substance, St. Thomas pushes away from the Aristotelian doctrine: " Being is not a genus, since it is not predicated univocally but only analogically.

St. Thomas chose the analogy: all beings are like, or analogous to, each other in existing.

Pointing out that predicables are predicated univocally of substances ; that is, they refer to " the same thing " found in each instance, St. Thomas argued that whatever can be said about being is not univocal, because all beings are unique, each actuated by a unique existence.

St. Thomas called them ( perhaps not originally ) the transcendentia, " transcendentals ", because they " climb above " the categories, just as being climbs above substance.

Meanwhile, over the period 1672 – 1733, the Danish gained control of the nearby islands of St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix.

In 1917, the United States purchased St. John, St. Thomas, and St. Croix from Denmark for US $ 25 million, renaming them the United States Virgin Islands.

The fleet was under the command of Captain Thomas Troubridge, and had been sent by Earl St. Vincent to reinforce Nelson with orders that he was to pursue and intercept the Toulon convoy.

The Chapel of St Thomas Becket is a ruin of a 14th century building in Bodmin churchyard.

It was once taboo in Western society for women to wear clothing traditionally associated with men, except in certain circumstances such as for necessity ( as per St. Thomas Aquinas's guidelines in Summa Theologiae II ),

St. Thomas Aquinas, a Doctor of the Church, accepts the death penalty as a deterrent and prevention method but not as a means of vengeance.

He is the 104th in a line which goes back more than 1400 years to St Augustine of Canterbury, the " Apostle to the English ", in the year 597.

* St. Barnabas the Apostle

While in Rome for Otto's imperial coronation, Bruno met Saint Adalbert of Prague, the first Apostle of the Prussians, killed a year later, which inspired Bruno to write a biography of St Adalbert when he reached the recently Christianized and consolidated Kingdom of Hungary himself.

* The Church of St Michael and All Angels website: St Columba of Iona, Apostle to the Picts

Due to its ancient history and the presence of St. Apostle Paul in Corinth some locations all over the world have been named Corinth:

* The leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, is known as Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of all Africa on the Holy See of St. Mark the Apostle.

* The Successor of St. Mark the Evangelist, Holy Apostle and Martyr, on the Holy Apostolic Throne of the Great City of Alexandria.

* " St. Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Confessor ", Butler's Lives of the Saints

* The Life and Miracles of St. Francis Xavier, Apostle and Missionary of the Indies

It is believed that St. Ignatius, along with his friend Polycarp, with great probability were disciples of the Apostle St. John.

It is also debated whether John the Evangelist is the same as St. John the Apostle.

Traditional Christian thought on the subject points to St. John the Apostle as the author of the Gospel, the three Epistles and the Book of Revelation that bear his name, and there is some internal textual evidence to suggest they may have been authored by the same person ( see textual criticism ).

* The Life and Miracles of St. John the Evangelist and Apostle

* The Life of St. Luke the Evangelist, Apostle & Martyr

" To support these findings, the assembled judges ( as reported by Coke, who was one of them ) cited as authorities Aristotle, Cicero, and the Apostle Paul ; as well as Bracton, Fortescue, and St. Germain.

On the statement about a decree requiring women to cover their heads, J. P. Kirsch comments in the Catholic Encyclopedia: " Without doubt this decree is apocryphal, and copied by the author of the Liber Pontificalis from the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians ( 11: 5 ) and arbitrarily attributed to the first successor of the Apostle in Rome.

A popular pilgrimage site in the past and today is Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia, Spain, in reference to the Apostle St. James, The Great.

Indian Orthodoxy traces its roots to the arrival in India of St. Thomas the Apostle in AD 52 ( according to tradition ) and his evangelism among both the Brahmans of the Malabar Coast and the ancient Jewish community there.

Any Person that hath occasion for the said Engines may apply themselves to the Patentee at his house near St Thomas Apostle London or to Mr. Nicholas Wall at the Workshoppe near Saddlers Wells at Islington or to Mr. William Tillcar, Turner, his agent at his house in Woodtree next door to the Sun Tavern London.

To help in the work of the conversion of the North, Eugene wrote commending St. Ansgar, the Apostle of the Scandinavians, and his companions " to all the sons of the Catholic Church ".

The new church which is dedicated to " The Sacred Heart and St Peter the Apostle " sits to the north of the town centre on London Road.

** St. Matthew, Figure of early Christianity, specifically an Apostle

* St. Kilian, Apostle of Franconia