The two monks later canonized as Saints Cyril and Methodius, the brothers from Thessaloniki, were sent to Great Moravia in 862 by the Byzantine emperor at the request of Knyaz ( Duke ) Rastislav, who wanted to weaken the dependence of his country on East Frankish priests.

His relics were transferred from his grave underneath the church of Saints Sergius and Herman of Valaam Chapel on Spruce Island to the Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Kodiak.

The Latter Day Saints were violently driven from the area in late 1833, after protracted conflict with local settlers, but returned in the late 1860s to a much better welcome.

Saints Cyril and Methodius, Byzantine Greeks born in Thessaloniki, were the creators of the first Slavic Glagolitic alphabet and Old Church Slavonic language.

In conjunction with another disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Saint Naum, he created a flourishing Bulgarian cultural center around Ohrid, where over 3, 000 pupils were taught in the Glagolitic and Cyrillic script in what is now called Ohrid Literary School.

This served as a quick reference point for important dates in Christ Jesus ' life and to tell Church officials which Saints were to be honored and on what day.

Despite out-gaining the Saints on offense by nearly a twofold margin, the Vikings were severely hindered by five turnovers, including a Favre interception in the final two minutes of the fourth quarter ( in Saints territory ).

According to Smith, the angel was the guardian of the golden plates, which Latter Day Saints believe were the source material for the Book of Mormon, buried in a hill near Smith's home in western New York.

For most of their first 20 years, the Saints were barely competitive, only getting to. 500 twice.

The next season 1988 would end with a 10-6 record showing that the Saints were to be a competitive team.

First the brainchild of local sports entrepreneur Dave Dixon, who also founded the Louisiana Superdome and the USFL, the Saints were actually secretly born in a backroom deal brought about by Congressman Hale Boggs, Senator Russell Long and NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle.

During Mora's tenure the Saints made the playoffs four times, with teams marked by strong defenses led by the " Dome Patrol " linebacking corps, but they were never able to win a playoff game.

In week 17, the Saints defeated division rivals Carolina ; however, the Saints needed other results to break their way and when the St. Louis Rams beat the New York Jets the Saints were eliminated despite having beaten the Rams, who finished with the same record.

The Rams, Saints, and Vikings all were 8 – 8, with the Rams having a 7 – 5 conference record, Saints 6 – 6, and the Vikings 5 – 7.

On March 23, the Saints announced that the team's two 2006 preseason games were to be played at Shreveport, Louisiana and Jackson, Mississippi. After a $ 185 million renovation of the historic stadium, on April 6 the Saints released their 2006 schedule, with all home games scheduled to be played at the Superdome.

The September 25, 2006 home opener, the first home game in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, was won by the Saints 23 – 3 against the Atlanta Falcons, who were undefeated in the 2006 season at that time.

In the end, his efforts were negated by a defense that couldn't get enough stops and a late TD run by Marshawn Lynch breaking nearly a half-dozen tackles with 3: 22 left which allowed Seattle to finish off the Saints.

Most of the players who were the targets of questionable hits by the Saints, including Favre and Warner, claimed the bounties were merely part of the game.

From 1996 through 1998, the Saints returned to gold numbers on both the white and black jerseys, but complaints about the numbers on the white jerseys being too difficult to read forced the numbers on the white jerseys to be changed to black in 1999.

Saints were briefly forced to switch home matches to the ground of their local rivals Portsmouth F. C.

On the opening day of the season Saints forced a 1 – 1 draw against Millwall, with Matthew Paterson netting the club's first goal in League One.

The 1838 Mormon War ended shortly afterwards and thousands of Latter Day Saints were forced from their homes in the dead of winter and across the frozen Mississippi River into Illinois.

Having been forced to leave farms and homes in Nauvoo, under threat, the Latter-day Saints were going to spend the winter on the banks of the Missouri River.

Because the Latter Day Saints held their lands in Adam-ondi-Ahman by preemption, all of their rights and improvements were lost when they were forced to leave.

It commemorates the entry of Brigham Young and the first group of Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley on July 24, 1847, where the Latter-day Saints settled after being forced from Nauvoo, Illinois, and other locations in the eastern United States.

In 1873 the Collegium Divi Thomæ de Urbe was forced to leave the Minerva for good eventually being relocated at the convent of Saints Dominic and Sixtus in 1932 and being transformed into the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in 1963.

In the end, the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints were captured and the bulk of the membership were subsequently forced to leave the state.

Saints had declined several previous offers, but eventually were forced to sell in order to balance their books.

He was forced to sit out the final game of the regular season against the New Orleans Saints with a turf toe injury, and also sat out the Buccaneers playoff match up against the Washington Redskins.

This time, the Saints managed to get a first down with a 16-yard completion from Drew Brees to Reggie Bush, but they were eventually forced to punt again.

The Colts were forced to punt and the Saints took over driving down.

However, mob violence forced the Latter Day Saints from the environs of Missouri by the end of 1833.

Pressure from a Saints defender forced Tupa to abort the punt attempt and throw a desperation pass with his non-throwing arm which was intercepted by a Saints defender and returned for a touchdown, ending the game.

Published sections of Clayton's journals also provide a detailed description of the Nauvoo Temple and an account of the Saints ' efforts to complete temple endowments for all interested members before being forced to leave Illinois.

Started 14 games at RDE, declared inactive vs. San Francisco, Dec. 3, with a knee injury and vs. Carolina, Dec. 31, with the Saints having clinched a playoff berth … Posted five or more tackles in seven contests ... Ranked 14th in the NFL with a career-high 10. 5 sacks and added 56 tackles ( 35 solo ), two pass defenses, three forced fumbles and a fumble recovery … Had a sack in each of the first three games, and added a fumble recovery at Green Bay, Sept. 17 … Notched five stops, a career-high two sacks and a forced fumble at Tampa Bay, Nov. 5 … Had a pair of sacks again at Atlanta, Nov. 26 – where he also deflected a pass and forced a fumble – and had two more sacks at Dallas, Dec. 10 … Was also a force in the postseason, with eight stops in the NFC Divisional Playoffs vs. Philadelphia and seven tackles at Chicago in the NFC Championship.

After the Latter Day Saints were forced to leave Missouri and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, Stout served as a bodyguard for Joseph Smith, Jr. During this period he was also a commander in the Nauvoo Legion and the Chief of Police of Nauvoo.

After the Mormons were forced to leave Nauvoo in 1846, Stout served as the chief of police in Winter Quarters, Nebraska when the Latter Day Saints migrated there.

The regular season also saw the first ever regular season game played outside the United States, as well as the New Orleans Saints being forced to play elsewhere due to damage to the Superdome and the entire New Orleans area by Hurricane Katrina.

* The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, the sequel to The Boondock Saints in which the brothers are forced to return to Boston

The Saints began play at Tulane Stadium in 1967.

Haslett was fired after the 2005 season, in which the Saints finished 3 – 13 and did not play one regular season contest in New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina.

The heavily favored Rams wilted in the stifling heat, and the Saints claimed their first-ever victory over their NFC West rivals, 24 – 20, on Manning's 1-yard quarterback sneak on the last play of the game.

The defining play of the game came with the Saints clinging to a three-point lead with minutes to play.

The Saints punted to the Rams ' Az-Zahir Hakim ( who would play one season for the Saints in 2005 ), who fumbled the punt deep in Rams ' territory.

Dixon had been a key player in the expansion of the NFL into New Orleans and the New Orleans Saints began play in 1967.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes a significant portion of its members to be descended from Ephraim, arguing that they are charged with restoring the lost tribes in the latter days as prophesied by Isaiah, and that the tribes of both Ephraim and Judah will play important leadership roles for covenant Israel in the last days ; some believe that this would be the fulfilment of part of the Blessing of Jacob, where it states that Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well ; whose branches run over the wall (, interpreting the " wall " as the ocean ).

The league began play for the 1987 season, opening with two games on January 10, 1987: the Philadelphia Wings at the New Jersey Saints and the Washington Wave hosting the Baltimore Thunder.

Another player that went on to play for the NFL is Kevin Mathis, who played first for the Dallas Cowboys, then for the Atlanta Falcons and New Orleans Saints.

Several football alumni play in the National Football League, including Patrick Ramsey ( New Orleans Saints ), J. P. Losman ( Buffalo Bills ), Anthony Cannon ( Detroit Lions ), Mewelde Moore ( Pittsburgh Steelers ), Matt Forté ( Chicago Bears ), and Roydell Williams ( Tennessee Titans ).

Due to the town's extreme isolation, to play matches the Saints must make round trips of over 900km to Roxby Downs, where the rest of the league's teams are located.

D ' Onofrio continued to play a wide variety of roles, including director Orson Welles in Tim Burton's Ed Wood, farmer Edgar and the evil " Bug " that possesses him from Men in Black, the father of a saint in Nancy Savoca's Household Saints, Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman in Steal This Movie, a time traveler from the distant future in Happy Accidents, and opposite Jennifer Lopez as serial killer Carl Stargher in The Cell.

With their move to TCF Bank Stadium, only three NCAA Division I FBS football programs now play indoors ( Idaho, Syracuse and Tulane ; the former two play at on-campus domed stadiums while the third shares the Mercedes-Benz Superdome with the New Orleans Saints ).

Following the takeover of the club's sponsor in 2006, the club renamed itself as The New Saints They moved to the redeveloped Park Hall Stadium on the outskirts of the town in September 2007. Also now playing at Park Hall are Oswestry Lions football club who play in the Shropshire county league.

Canizaro knew that the Breakers could not hope to compete with the Saints, and opted to move before the 1985 season rather than play a lame duck season in New Orleans.

When it became clear that Hurricane Katrina's extensive damage to New Orleans and the Superdome would make it impossible for the Saints to play there in 2005, the team temporarily relocated its operations to San Antonio and began negotiations to play home games at the Alamodome.

( The Saints, after discussions with the NFL and Louisiana State University, eventually agreed to play one " home " game at Giants Stadium against the Giants, three games at the Alamodome and four games at LSU's Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge ).

On December 30, two days before the Saints ' final game of the 2005 season against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Benson announced at a press conference that the Saints will return to their Metairie facility at the end of the 2005 season, and that the team would play as many of their home games as possible during the 2006 season in the Louisiana Superdome, which he said could be ready as early as mid-September, 2006.

Illustration by Barnes of a scene from J. M. Synge's play The Well of the Saints.