A frigatebird found moribund in 1953 in Tiree, Scotland was identified at the time as Magnificent Frigatebird but was re-examined in 2002 and found to be an Ascension Frigatebird.

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From then on retail trade is only restricted on public holidays ( New Years Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Day of Prayer, Ascension Day, Whit Sunday, Whit Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day ) and on Constitution Day, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve ( on New Year's Eve from 3 pm only ).

Indeed, his mother was illiterate and never recorded the date of his birth, remembering only that he had been born on a Wednesday, eight days before the Feast of the Ascension, which itself occurs 40 days after Easter.

* The British in Freetown intercepted this message but, believing it might be a ruse de guerre, refused to credit it, yet still passed it on to the U. S. The Allies had gone to much effort to establish an airfield on Ascension as a link in their only air route between the United States and the Desert War in Egypt.

One of their first visits was in 1598 when an expedition of two vessels piloted by John Davis ( English explorer ) attacked a large Spanish Caravel, only to be beaten off and forced to retreat to Ascension Island for repairs.

For the next 20 years, many could find only low-paid work with the island government and the only available employment overseas for the islanders was restricted to the Falkland Islands and Ascension Island, a period during which the island was often referred to as the “ South Atlantic Alcatraz ”.

The only way to fly to Ascension is to fly with the RAF via RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, England on an overnight charter, operated ( as of September 2010 ) by an Air Seychelles Boeing 767-300ER.

Before 1955, the option existed of blessing the baptismal font on the Vigil of Pentecost, and this was the only time the Paschal candle would be lit at services after Ascension.

This final church was later also destroyed by Muslims, leaving only a 12x12 meter octagonal structure ( called a martyrium —" memorial "— or " Edicule ") that remains to this day .< ref >" The Chapel of Ascension.

In Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox theology, the Ascension is interpreted as the culmination of the Mystery of the Incarnation, in that it not only marked the completion of Jesus ' physical presence among his apostles, but consummated the union of God and man when Jesus ascended in his glorified human body to sit at the right hand of God the Father.

Apart from the solemnities of Nativity of the Lord, the Epiphany, the Ascension, and Pentecost, which are outranked only by the Paschal Triduum, solemnities give way only to the following celebrations:

This practice has been broken only once when, in 1999, the House of Bishops voted unanimously in public to endorse the efforts of the Archbishop of Armagh, the Diocese of Armagh and the Standing Committee of the General Synod in their attempts to resolve the crisis at the Church of the Ascension at Drumcree near Portadown.

* Ascension ( only in the ecclesiastical provinces of Boston, Hartford, New York, Newark, Omaha, and Philadelphia ; the others have transferred this celebration to the following Sunday )

Ascension of Our Lord Secondary School was originally built as a Junior High, but is now Malton's only Catholic High School.

Of architectural interest in Greenpoint are: The Episcopal Church of the Ascension ( Ascension Greenpoint ) ( 1853 ) the oldest church in Greenpoint on Kent Street, The Astral Apartments ( 1885 ) ( NRHP ) on Franklin Street, the Saint Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church ( 1875 ) on Manhattan Avenue, the Eberhard-Faber Pencil Factory on Greenpoint Ave at Franklin St., the Polish Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord ( 1921 ) ( NRHP ) on North 12th Street, the Oliver Hazard Perry School () ( 1867 ) on Norman Avenue ( the oldest continuously operating public school building in New York City ); the Capital One ( formerly Green Point ) Savings Bank ( 1908 ), the Saint Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic Church ( 1896 )() on Humboldt Street, which serves as a Catholic shrine for the Polish community, and the synagogue building of Congregation Ahavas Israel ( 1903 ) on Noble Street ( the sanctuary, with stained glass windows and a torah shrine with turn-of the century wood carvings, is currently open only during services on Saturday mornings ).

St. Amant is located near the largest city in Ascension Parish, Gonzales, which is only 3 or 4 miles to the north-west.

He was found hatching on the beach after Fillmore arrived on Ascension Island for nesting season ( only to find that the entire event had been canceled ).

:... Hail with thankful, joyous heart at long last the constitution of International Council which history will acclaim as the greatest event shedding luster upon second epoch of Formative Age of Bahá ’ í Dispensation potentially unsurpassed by any enterprise undertaken since inception of Administrative Order of Faith on morrow of ‘ Abdu ’ l-Bahá ’ s Ascension, ranking second only to glorious immortal events associated with Ministries of the Three Central Figures of Faith in course of First Age of most glorious Dispensation of the five thousand century Bahá ’ í Cycle.

As with other continuity errors and discrepancies thrown up during the course of the Loners miniseries, no explanation is given as to the drastic change in the group's purpose between series — though miniseries writer C. B. Cebulski ( the third writer to tackle the team-after Brian K. Vaughan / Robert Kirkman-and the only one to use this direction for the team ) has attempted to suggest some answers directly to fans who frequent the Newsarama forums rather than within the pages of the book itself, though many suggestions ( notably those centering on Darkhawk ) were later debunked by events in canon titles such as Nova and War of Kings: Ascension.

Many of the commemorative coins over the years however only have written either " St. Helena " or " Ascension Island ".

* Earliest day on which Ascension Day can fall, while June 3 is the latest ; celebrated 40 days after Easter ( Christianity ), and its related observances

Bede died on Thursday, 26 May 735 ( Ascension Day ) and was buried at Jarrow.

The New Testament mentions several resurrection appearances of Jesus on different occasions to his twelve apostles and disciples, including " more than five hundred brethren at once ", before Jesus ' Ascension to heaven.

: Upon a certain Ascension Day King Arthur had come from Caerleon, and had held a very magnificent court at Camelot as was fitting on such a day.

According to this tradition, after the Ascension of Jesus, Mary went to the Emperor of Rome and greeted him with " Christ has risen ," whereupon he pointed to an egg on his table and stated, " Christ has no more risen than that egg is red.

The Afterfeast of Pascha lasts 39 days, with its Apodosis ( leave-taking ) on the day before Ascension.

G. E. Moore died on 24 October 1958 and was interred at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge, England, with his wife.

A U. S. Army Air Corps bomber flying out of a secret South Atlantic airbase on Ascension Island attacked the U-boat.

* Richardson ordered the bombing of the submarine, based on his assessment of the overall military situation and the importance of his protecting Ascension Island as a critical link in the U. S. aerial resupply of the war effort.

At 22: 00 on 12 September 1942, U-156 was patrolling off the coast of West Africa midway between Liberia and Ascension Island.

This struggle eventually led to the point on the timeline occupied by the book called Ascension.

* Mage: the Ascension on WoDG

The Eastern Orthodox Church liturgical calendar begins on 1 September – proceeding annually from the Nativity of the Theotokos to the celebration of Jesus ' birth in the winter ( Christmas ), through his death and resurrection in the spring ( Pascha / Easter ), to his Ascension and the Assumption of his mother ( Dormition of the Theotokos / Virgin Mary ) in the summer.

In 1859 the Anglican Diocese of St Helena was set up for St Helena, including Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha ( initially also including the Falkland Islands, Rio de Janeiro and other towns along the east coast of South America ), the first Bishop of St Helena arriving on the island that year.

As part of the Lend-Lease agreement, America built Wideawake airport on Ascension in 1942, but no military use was made of St Helena.

At the same time, a shuttle service between St Helena and Ascension was planned, for the many Saint Helenians working there and on the Falklands.

The main diasporas are to the United Kingdom, South Africa and more recently to the Falkland Islands, as well as on Ascension Island.

Banking services on St. Helena ( and Ascension Island ) are provided by the Bank of St. Helena, which delivers a full retail banking service to individuals and business in, and trading with, St. Helena.

* Ascension Island

The Royal Air Force operates flights from RAF Mount Pleasant to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, England, with a refuelling stop at RAF Ascension Island.

The listening stations are at Cheltenham itself, Bude, Ascension Island, with the U. S. A., at Menwith Hill.

The first islanders left to work at Ascension Island in 1921, which was made a dependency of St Helena in 1922.

The Bank of St Helena, located next to the Post Office, commenced operations in 2004, inheriting the assets and accounts of the former St Helena Government Savings and the Ascension Island Savings Banks, both of which then ceased to exist.

* Cross, Tony St Helena including Ascension Island and Tristan Da Cunha ISBN 0-7153-8075-3

St Helena has a land area of 122 square kilometres and is part of a wider territory called Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which includes Ascension Island and the island group of Tristan da Cunha.

Ascension Island is warmer and wetter than St Helena.

Saint Helena had until 2009 two dependencies: Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha.

Tristan da Cunha () is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which also includes Saint Helena to its north, and equatorial Ascension Island even farther removed.

The Bank of Saint Helena was established on Saint Helena and Ascension Island in 2004.

There is no direct service to Ascension Island and the United Kingdom, without flying from Cape Town to London or travelling on the RMS St Helena from Cape Town to St Helena.

* May 20 ( Feast of the Ascension ) – Ascension Island is first definitely sighted, by Portuguese admiral Afonso de Albuquerque.

* July 20 – Charles Darwin climbs Green Hill on Ascension Island.