The first record of the concept of the Vicar of Christ is mentioned in the Epistle to the Magnesians of St. Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, a disciple of St. John, probably commanded by Peter, with a pastoral sense, written between the years 88 and 107 AD " your bishop presides in the place of God (...)".

" your godly bishop " — Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians 2: 1.

" the bishop presiding after the likeness of God and the presbyters after the likeness of the council of the Apostles, with the deacons also who are most dear to me, having been entrusted with the diaconate of Jesus Christ " — Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians 6: 1.

" — Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians 7: 1.

" — Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians 13: 2.

* Ignatius of Antioch, Epistles of to the Ephesians, Magnesians, Trallesians, and Smyrnans, Lightfoot, trans., Harmer, ed.

Ignatius addressed a letter to him, and mentions him in his letters to the Ephesians and to the Magnesians.

Early Christian observance of both spiritual seventh-day Sabbath and Lord's Day assembly is evidenced in Ignatius's letter to the Magnesians ca.

Sabbath observance was modified, perhaps as early as Ignatius ' Epistle to the Magnesians 9. 1.

Around 110 AD, St. Ignatius of Antioch used " Lord's " in a passage of his letter to the Magnesians.

( The expanded Pseudo-Ignatian version of Magnesians, from the middle of the third century, rewrites this passage to make " Lord's Day " a clear reference to Sunday, as Resurrection Day.

It contains a splendid pre-reformation oak rood screen built in 1480 and several other handsome monuments including the tomb of John Hawley ( d. 1408 ) and his two wives, covered with a large brass plate effigy of all three.

Shahanshah Shah Jahan erected many splendid monuments, the most famous of which is the Taj Mahal at Agra, built in 1632-1648 as a tomb for his beloved wife, Empress Mumtaz Mahal.

Their city is not built continuously, and has no splendid temples or other edifices ; it rather resembles a group of villages, like the ancient towns of Hellas, and would therefore make a poor show.

Theodoric, following his imperial predecessors, also built many splendid buildings in and around Ravenna, including his palace church Sant ' Apollinare Nuovo, an Arian cathedral ( now Santo Spirito ) and Baptistery, and his own Mausoleum just outside the walls.

Otto III also carried back parts of the body of Bishop Adalbert of Prague, which he placed in a splendid new church he had built on the Tiber Island in Rome.

To the north is the closely built old town on the peninsula between two modern harbours, with the splendid Basilica of Saint Nicholas, the Cathedral of San Sabino ( 1035 – 1171 ) and the Swabian Castle built for Frederick II, which is now also a major nightlife district.

Despite his reputation for thrift, he gave her a splendid funeral: she lay in state in the Tower and was buried in Westminster Abbey, in the Lady Chapel Henry had built.

More than a hundred homes, three churches and a splendid public school have been built in a few years.

The city now has paved streets, a splendid " White Way ," five brick and stone schoolhouses, seven churches, a large cotton oil mill, light and ice plant, well built and attractive business blocks, three parks, a fine waterworks and sewage system, four banks, two hotels, the three story brick boarding school for Creek girls and an abundance of natural gas for domestic and commercial purposes.

When the Jefferson Highway was first located through Eufaula the only way of crossing the South Canadian River, about four miles below the town, was by means of a rather uncertain ferry, and the citizens of Eufaula, feeling the great need of a good bridge across the river, incorporated-The Jefferson Highway Bridge Company, and at a cost of almost a quarter of a million dollars, built the present splendid structure of steel and concrete, forty feet above low water ; affording a 365 day crossing throughout the year.

* Mount Stuart House, Isle of Bute: One of the most splendid and extraordinary houses in Britain, built in 1878-1900 for the wealthiest man in Britain, John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute.

The couple settled at the manor of Huntingfield, described as " enchanting, with a legend for every turret ... A splendid gallery ran the length of the house, the Great Hall was built around six massive oaks which supported the roof as they grew ".

Birger Jarl's sons built Alsnö hus, a splendid castle where King Magnus I in 1279 assembled the Meeting of Alsnö.

Roger himself had built at Devizes the most splendid castle in Christendom.

He enriched the numerous and splendid monasteries which he built with valuable libraries.

Indeed, the hammams built in Tripoli by the early Mamluk governors were splendid edifices and many of them are still present until today.

From there it made its way to Ocriculum ( Otricoli ) and Narnia ( Narni ), where it crossed the Nera River by the largest Roman bridge ever built, a splendid four-arched structure to which Martial alludes, one arch of which and all the piers are still standing ; and went on, followed at first by the modern road to Casuentum ( San Gemini ) which passes over two finely preserved ancient bridges, through Carsulae to Mevania ( Bevagna ), and thence to Forum Flaminii ( S. Giovanni Profiamma ).

First, the town boasted a splendid venue: the Markgräfliches Opernhaus built for Margrave Frederick and his wife, Friederike Sophie Wilhelmine ( sister of Frederick the Great ) in 1747.

In gratitude, the Anunnaki, the " Great Gods ", built Esagila, the splendid: " They raised high the head of Esagila equaling Apsu.

The Old Oaks Country Club, originally named ' Hill Crest ', is a splendid mansion house built in the late 1880s by millionaire Trenor Luther Park and his wife Julia Catlin Park.

At its centre stands the Market Hall with its splendid arches, built in 1627.

It stands in a splendid position overlooking the Vale of Aylesbury and is built on an unusual plan.

He built splendid residences at Downhill and Ballyscullion, which he adorned with rare works of art.

At the beginning of the Hippodrome I saw the Kaiser's Fountain, an ugly octagonal building with a glass dome, built in 1895 by the German Emperor, and on my left, directly across from it, the tomb of Sultan Ahmet, who constructed the Blue Mosque, more properly known by his name.

After his death, the king was buried in the church which he had built ; his original tomb has been lost, while his alleged remains are preserved in the shrine where he was reburied after being declared a saint ; his saintliness, however, was never very widely acknowledged outside the bishopric of Liège where he may still be venerated by tradition.

Maqbara Shaikh Husain, houses the tomb of Khwaja Husain Chishty Rehamatullah Alaih ( Shaikh Husain Ajmeri ) who was the Peer of Ajmer Sharif Dargah in Emperor Akbar's Time, He was the great grandson of Khwaja Moinuddin Hasan Chishty Rehmatullah Alaih, his tomb was built in 1637-1638 by Khwaja Alauddin Chishty and Sajjadanashin Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin

He was buried in Bahcekapi, a tomb he had built for himself.

The city is also famous for the Convento de Jesus ( now known as the City Museum " Santa Joana "), built in the 15th century, which contains the tomb of the daughter of Afonso V, St. Joana, who died in 1490.

According to William Burt, in his notes to Dartmoor, a Descriptive Poem by N. T. Carrington ( 1826 ), the original tomb consisted of a pedestal of three steps, the lowest of which was built of four stones each six feet long and twelve inches square.

The Bible describes Jesus ' tomb as being outside the city wall, as was normal for burials across the ancient world, which were regarded as unclean, but the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the heart of Hadrian's city, well within the Old City walls, which were built by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1538 Some have claimed that the city had been much narrower in Jesus ' time, with the site then having been outside the walls ; since Herod Agrippa ( 41 – 44 ) is recorded by history as extending the city to the north ( beyond the present northern walls ), the required repositioning of the western wall is traditionally attributed to him as well.

The likelihood of a 1st century tomb being built to the west of the city is questionable, as according to the late 1st century Rabbinic leader, Akiva ben Joseph, quoted in the Mishnah, tombs should not built to the west of the city, as the wind in Jerusalem generally blows from the west, and would blow the smell of the corpses and their impurity over the city, and the Temple Mount.

Egyptologists believe that the pyramid was built as a tomb for fourth dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu ( Cheops in Greek ) over a 10 to 20-year period concluding around 2560 BC.

It is believed the pyramid was built as a tomb for fourth dynasty Egyptian pharaoh Khufu and was constructed over a 20 year period.

The Communist Party of Great Britain had the monumental tombstone built in 1954 with a portrait bust by Laurence Bradshaw ; Marx's original tomb had had only humble adornment.

Cultural sites include: the National Museum of Afghanistan, notably displaying an impressive statue of Surya excavated at Khair Khana, the ruined Darul Aman Palace, the tomb of Mughal Emperor Babur at Bagh-e Babur, and Chehlstoon Park, the Minar-i-Istiqlal ( Column of Independence ) built in 1919 after the Third Afghan War, the mausoleum of Timur Shah Durrani, and the imposing Id Gah Mosque ( founded 1893 ).

The library was built to store 12, 000 scrolls and to serve as a monumental tomb for Celsus.

The Monastery of Saint Anthony in Egypt, built over the tomb of Anthony the Great | Saint Anthony, the " Father of Christian Monasticism ".

His other remains were carried to Bursa, his Anatolian capital city, and were buried in a tomb at the complex built in his name.

Since Maeshowe is the largest and most sophisticated example of the Maeshowe " type " of tomb, archaeologists have suggested that it is the last of its class, built around 2800 BC.

In 1836 – 1837 a cenotaph was built for Mieszko I and his successor Bolesław I the Brave in the Golden Chapel () at the Poznań Cathedral, where the damaged remains found in the 14th century tomb of Bolesław were placed.

Felix was a minor saint of local importance and patronage whose tomb had been built within the local necropolis at Cimitile, just outside the town of Nola.

His successor, Pope Clement X ( 1670 – 1676 ), built him an ornate tomb in Santa Maria Maggiore.

A recent biography of Heydrich also places the grave in Section A. Hitler wanted Heydrich to have a monumental tomb but, because of Germany's declining fortunes, it was never built.

On 17 February 1818, workmen breaking ground on the new parish church to be built on the site of the eastern choir of Dunfermline Abbey uncovered a tomb before the site of the former abbey high altar.

Agnes ' bones are conserved beneath the high altar in the church of Sant ' Agnese fuori le mura in Rome, built over the catacomb that housed Agnes ' tomb.