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 basic premise of Mage: The Ascension is that everyone has the capacity, at some level, to shape reality.

While the entire metaplot has always been meant to be altered as each play group sees fit, Ascension provided multiple possible endings, with none of them being definitive ( though one was meant to resolve the metaplot ).

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.

Tradition has consecrated this site as the Mount of Ascension.

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Long a Democratic bastion, Ascension Parish has become fertile ground for Republicans as the indigenous traditionalism has grown less comfortable with the Democratic Party on a national scale and as immigration has brought in new residents who are politically conservative.

Republican Eddie J. Lambert, an attorney in Gonzales who resides in Prairieville, has represented Ascension Parish in the Louisiana House of Representatives since 2004 and is a candidate for reelection in 2011.

Since 1977, the Resaca area has been the home of the Monastery of the Glorious Ascension, housed in the former midcentury modern hilltop residence purchased from the late Rev.

Although not located on Turl Street the college has links with the three Turl Street colleges ( Lincoln, Jesus, and Exeter ). The College is also physically linked to Lincoln College through a connecting door, which Brasenose College members are permitted to enter Lincoln College through on Ascension Day each year.

Either episode resulted in the Brasenose student's death, and ever since, on Ascension Day, Lincoln College has invited in members of Brasenose College every year through the one door connecting the two colleges, for free beer as penance.

The early Christian document, the Ascension of Isaiah, which may date to the 2nd century, also has a narrative of the virgin birth of Jesus.

Handel's Messiah has been described by the early-music scholar Richard Luckett as " a commentary on Christ's Nativity, Passion, Resurrection and Ascension ", beginning with God's promises as spoken by the prophets and ending with Christ's glorification in heaven.

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.

Because of his widespread effect and partly because so little exists that can now be linked to one of the world's greatest mariners and authors, it has been argued that the remains of his ship and the objects still remaining on the site at Ascension Island – while remaining the property of Britain and managed by Ascension Island – are perhaps best viewed as the shared maritime heritage of those parts of the world first visited or described by Dampier.

* In Belgium, it is commemorated annually on the Catholic liturgical feast of the Ascension ( also a public Holiday there ) by the Christian Labour Movement ( which has a traditional link with the Christian Democrat parties, all substantively Roman Catholic ), as a kind of counterpart to the socialist Labour Day ( also a public holiday in Belgium ) on May 1.

The Ascension Crake ( Mundia elpenor ) which disappeared some time before 1700 but was briefly mentioned and described by traveller and hobby naturalist Peter Mundy in 1656 and Aphanocrex podarces, the Saint Helena Swamphen which disappeared before 1600 and has never been encountered by scientists were once considered congeners of A. rogersi.

Since the discovery of the type specimen, it has been found off the eastern coast of the United States, Ireland, the Canary Islands, western Africa, and Ascension Island.

This is a nationwide scheme, run by Ascension Trust, that Bishop's Stortford has become affiliated to, providing practical support in the form of water and flipflops, and an opportunity for people to talk.

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.

According to one hypothesis, an Italian architect called Petrok Maly may have been an author of the Ascension Church in Kolomenskoye, one of the earliest and most prominent tented roof churches.

He was disgruntled at the way a potential studio album had been sacrificed in favour of the Keys to Ascension releases, as well as how a Yes tour was being arranged without his input or agreement.

By the 6th century the iconography of the Ascension in Christian art had been established and by the 9th century Ascension scenes were being depicted on domes of churches.

By the 6th century the iconography of the Ascension had been established and by the 9th century Ascension scenes were being depicted on domes of churches.

Robert Poche, Ascension Parish voter registrar told the Advocate ( Baton Rouge ) in 2007 that " History tells us that those with no party affiliation have been voting conservatively.

Feral cats have been removed from Ascension Island, Arctic Foxes from many islands in the Aleutian Islands, and rats from Campbell Island.

Several passages from the New Testament have been taken to imply that Christ descended into hell or the realm of the dead before the Ascension.

This may also have been the site of the execution of a hermit known as Peter de Pomfret who in 1213 had prophesied that before the next Ascension Day King John's rule would be over.

The missile landed where Ascension Island would be found if more accurate navigation methods had been used when developing the chart.

L. Keir Hett designed and built the Church of the Ascension, Peacehaven's Anglican church, to replace a temporary building which had been erected in 1922.

On School Road is the Church of the Ascension, formerly the Job Marston Chapel, which was built in 1704 and is believed to have been designed by Sir William Wilson.

Some believe that the present village of Bethany does not occupy the site of the ancient village ; but that it grew up around the traditional cave which they suppose to have been at some distance from the house of Martha and Mary in the village ; Zanecchia places the site of the ancient village of Bethany higher up on the southeastern slope of the Mount of Olives, not far from the accepted site of Bethphage, and near that of the Ascension.

In the Atlantic, it has been reported from off the Bahamas and southern Brazil in the west, Cape Verde, Guinea to Sierra Leone, southern Angola, and South Africa in the east, and Ascension Island in the south.

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.

The Ascension ( Christ II ) is outside the umbrella of the other three works, and is a vehement description of a devotional subject.

In about 1480 Melozzo was commissioned by Pietro Riario to paint the vault of the apse in the basilica dei Santi Apostoli in Rome, his subject being the Ascension of Christ.

The Ascension of Jesus ( anglicized from the Vulgate Latin Acts 1: 9-11 section title: Ascensio Iesu ) is the Christian teaching found in the New Testament that the resurrected Jesus was taken up to heaven in his resurrected body, in the presence of eleven of his apostles, occurring 40 days after the resurrection.

The Feast of the Ascension, celebrated on the 40th day of Easter ( always a Thursday ), is one of the chief feasts of the Christian year.

The Chapel of the Ascension in Jerusalem today is a Christian and Muslim holy site now believed to mark the place where Jesus ascended into heaven.

They describe the Ascension as a convenient device to discredit ongoing appearance claims within the Christian community.

The Feast of the Ascension is one of the great feasts in the Christian liturgical calendar, and commemorates the bodily Ascension of Jesus into Heaven.

* Community of the Glorious Ascension, a Christian monastic community

Other places of worship in the community, past and present, include: St. Mary's Roman Catholic ( 1902 ), First Baptist ( 1913 ), St. Nicholas Byzantine Catholic ( 1919 ), Church of God ( 1920 ), Christian & Missionary Alliance and Holy Ascension Ukrainian Orthodox ( 1921 ), Church of the Brethren ( 1922 ) and Church of the Nazarene ( 1935 ).

Kettering is also home to several private schools-Alexandria Montessori School, Archbishop Alter High School, Ascension School, Emmanuel Christian Academy, St Albert The Great School, and St. Charles Borromeo School.

* Sozomen's history of the Christian church, from the Ascension of Jesus to the defeat of Licinius in 323, in twelve books.

* Ascension, webzine about Magma and Christian Vander's music ( in French )

The main Christian holidays are Christmas, New Year's Day, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension day, Pentecost, Midsummer Day, and All Saints ' Day.

* Ascension, webzine about Christian Vander's music ( in French )

The second set of Rogation days, the Lesser Litanies or Rogations, introduced about AD 470 by Bishop Mamertus of Vienne and eventually adopted elsewhere, are the three days ( Rogation Monday, Rogation Tuesday and Rogation Wednesday ) immediately before Ascension Thursday in the Christian liturgical calendar.

The main Christian holidays are Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension Day, Pentecost, and All Saints ' Day.

" More specifically, it appears that what Christian theologians refer to as " salvation " ( by Jesus Christ ) is not the same spiritual process or spiritual attainment as " Ascension " ( the Sixth Initiation ), even though Jesus himself was reported to have ascended near the close of his spiritual mission on Earth.

Shortly after the Death ( Nisan 14 or 15 ) and Resurrection and Great Commission and Ascension of Jesus, the Jerusalem church was founded as the first Christian church with about 120 Jews and Jewish Proselytes (), followed by Pentecost ( Sivan 6 ), the Ananias and Sapphira incident, Pharisee Gamaliel's defense of the Apostles (), the stoning of Saint Stephen ( see also Persecution of Christians ) and the subsequent dispersal of the church () which led to the baptism of Simon Magus in Samaria (), and also an Ethiopian eunuch ().

These include Christian holidays such as Ascension Day ; Muslim holidays such as Awal Muharram and Mawlid, the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad ; and Hindu holidays such as Thaipusam.

The Ascension of Jesus ( anglicized from the Vulgate Latin Acts 1: 9-11 section title: Ascensio Iesu ) is the Christian teaching found in the New Testament that the resurrected Jesus was taken up to heaven in his resurrected body, in the presence of eleven of his apostles, occurring 40 days after the resurrection.