** Venerable William Knight, English Catholic martyr ( b. 1572 )

On 17 May 2001, the Governor-General, Sir William Deane, invested Bashir as a Dame of Grace of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem ( DStJ ).

At the time of his death, Prince Henry's full style was: His Royal Highness The Prince Henry William Frederick Albert, Duke of Gloucester, Earl of Ulster and Baron Culloden, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Knight of the Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick, Grand Master and Principal Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Grand Prior of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem.

He was the son of William John Hamilton ( Member of Parliament for Newport, Isle of Wight ), son of William Richard Hamilton ( Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office ), son of the Venerable Anthony Hamilton ( Archdeacon of Colchester ), son of Alexander Hamilton, younger son of the aforementioned William Hamilton, 3rd of Wishaw.

* William Knight ( martyr ) ( 1572 – 1596 ), Venerable William Knight, martyred in 1596

The Reverend Robert L. Graham, and the Reverend Dawna Wall serve as the Pastoral Associates and the Venerable William Wright serves as the Honorary Assistant.

The Venerable William Hutchins ( 1792 – 1841 ) was an English churchman and academic, a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

The Panyaro Institute for the Promotion of the Way of Tea was founded to perpetuate the lifelong work of the celebrated Korean Tea Master, the Venerable Hyodang, who devoted sixty years of his life to a study of the teachings of the great Korean spiritual master Wonhyo and to the elaboration of methods of using tea in meditation.

Bede ( ; ; 672 / 673 – 26 May 735 ), also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede (), was an English monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow ( see Monkwearmouth-Jarrow ), both in the Kingdom of Northumbria.

* May 27 – The Venerable Bede ( born 672 )

Finally, Venerable Pope Pius XII, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Pope Pius IX's institution of the Feast, instructed the entire Roman Catholic Church at length on the devotion to the Sacred Heart in his encyclical letter Haurietis aquas ( on May 15, 1956 ).

The Venerable József Mindszenty ( 29 March 1892 – 6 May 1975 ) was a cardinal of the Catholic Church as the Archbishop of Esztergom in Hungary.

She was recognized by the Roman Catholic Church as a Venerable Servant of God on 8 May 1998, and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 6 June 2003.

When men from his flagship HMS Venerable clambered up into the rigging and roared three cheers in a prearranged signal for the revolt to begin on 1 May, Duncan initially threatened to run the ringleader through with his sword.

Marcellin Champagnat was declared Venerable in 1920 by Pope Benedict XV beatified by Pope Pius XII on 29 May 1955, and canonised by Pope John Paul II on April 18, 1999.

* The second Karel Doorman ( R81 ), a Colossus-class aircraft carrier ( originally HMS Venerable ), was commissioned into the Netherlands Navy on 28 May 1948.

* Venerable Isaac the Founder of the Dalmatian Monastery at Constantinople Orthodox icon and synaxarion ( May 30 )

He served in the post for almost four years, having been ordained and installed on the feast of St Bede the Venerable, May 25, 2004.

He was a Fellow of Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce ( FRSA ) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ( FRSE ), Prior of the Scottish Venerable Order of St John ( GCStJ ) ( 1983 – 1995 ), and served as Her Majesty's Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland ( May 1986 – 1987 ), on the Royal Commission on Historic Manuscripts 1987-1994, and was a member of the Aberdeen University Court ( 1978 – 1984 ), and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Farmers.

* Saints Cassian ( 1537 ) and Laurence ( 1548 ), disciples of Venerable Cornelius of Komel ( May 19 ), Abbots of Komel (" Korneliev " Monastery ), Vologda.

* The Venerable Bede, Anglo-Saxon theologian, historian, and chronologist ( approximate date of birth ) ( died 735 )

When the reign of the House of Capet began, Vendôme formed the chief town of a county belonging to Bouchard, called " the Venerable ", who died in the monastery of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés in 1007.

* The Venerable Giorgio Baldassarre Oppezzi, a monk who died in 1525, and whose body was later discovered to be incorrupt, is buried here in the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli.

After Hsin Ping died, the vice director of Fo Guang Shan, Hsin Ting ( originally Venerable Zhidu ), was immediately elevated to serve the remaining years of Hsin Ping's term.

The Venerable Mother Catherine Elizabeth McAuley ( born on 29 September 1778, at Stormanstown House, in Dublin, Ireland – died 11 November 1841, at the House of Mercy she had built on Baggot Street, Dublin ) was an Irish nun, who founded the Sisters of Mercy in 1831.

In 1943, Venerable Zhuan Dao died at Putuo Monastery at the age of 72.

Peter the Venerable died at Cluny on December 25, 1156.

In his Life of St. Joseph Calasanctius, Tosetti gives a list of 54 who between 1615 and 1756 died edifying deaths, among them Blessed Peter Casani ( d. 1647 ), the first novice master of the Order ; the fourth superior general, Venerable Glicerius Landriani ( d. 1618 ); Cosimo Chiara ( d. 1688 ); Petrus Andreas Taccioni ( d. 1672 ); the lay brother Philip Bosio ( d. 1662 ); Antonio Muscia ( d. 1665 ); and Eusebius Amoretti ( d. 1685 ).

It was subsequently revitalized under Abbot Peter the Venerable ( died 1156 ), who brought lax priories back into line and returned to stricter discipline.

* If the Venerable was not a martyr – all non-martyrs are " confessors " as they " confessed " or bore witness to their faith by how they lived their lives – it must be proven that a miracle has taken place by his or her intercession: that is, that God has shown a sign that the person is enjoying the Beatific Vision by God performing a miracle in response to the Blessed's prayers.

" ( The patient was sick, there was no known cure for the ailment, prayers were directed to the Venerable, the patient was cured, the cure was spontaneous, instantaneous, complete and lasting, and doctors cannot find any natural explanation.

It was founded by the Venerable Father Michael J. McGivney in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1882, and named in honor of Christopher Columbus.

Northumberland's patron saint, Saint Cuthbert, was a monk and later Abbot of the monastery, and his miracles and life are recorded by the Venerable Bede.

Upon his accession he wrote to Peter the Venerable and the monks of Cluny, asking them to pray for him, while he was congratulated by Arnulf of Lisieux.

In the 20th century it was reintroduced, and Venerable Pope Pius XII ( 1939 – 58 ) announced his beatification on 7 October 1956.

An example is provided by Wong Kiew Kit, who writes: " It was during this time that the Venerable Bodhidharma came from India to China to spread Buddhism.

At the time of her death, Princess Margaret's full style was: Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret Rose, Countess of Snowdon, Companion of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India, Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, Dame Grand Cross of the Most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem.

In 1142 Robert and other scholars met with Peter the Venerable, who was visiting Spain, and Robert set to work translating the Qur ' an into Latin.

He was revealed in 1981 as being the Venerable Master of the clandestine Masonic lodge Propaganda Due ( P2 ).

* Venerable Francis Libermann, the son of the Chief Rabbi of Saverne, was born in 1802.

This devotion ( started by Sister Marie and then promoted by the Venerable Leo Dupont ) was approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1885.

He was declared Venerable in 1995 by Pope John Paul II.

They were founded in 1538 in Naples by the Venerable Maria Laurentia Longo, who was Abbess of the Poor Clare monastery of that city.

The author of a continuation of Dionysius's Computus, writing in 616, described Dionysius as a " most learned abbot of the city of Rome ", and the Venerable Bede accorded him the honorific abbas, which could be applied to any monk, especially a senior and respected monk, and does not necessarily imply that Dionysius ever headed a monastery ; indeed, Dionysius's friend Cassiodorus stated in Institutiones that he was still only a monk late in life.

The Anno Domini era became dominant in Western Europe only after it was used by the Venerable Bede to date the events in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, completed in 731.

Samuel Mazzuchelli, a missionary and expert in Indian languages, ministered to whites and Indians in Wisconsin and Iowa for 34 years and, after his death, was declared Venerable by the Catholic Church.

Theobald resisted for 14 months before a compromise was reached through the intercession of Peter the Venerable, Abbot of Cluny, allowing Theobald to give a verbal profession to Hugh.

An early appearance was in the Ecclesiastical History of the Venerable Bede ( 731 ).

In 597 Augustine of Canterbury is said, by the Venerable Bede, to have landed with 40 men at Ebbsfleet, in the parish of Minster-in-Thanet, before founding Britain's second Christian monastery in Canterbury ( the first was founded fifty years earlier by Saint Columba on Eilean na Naoimh, in the Hebrides ): a cross marks the spot.

Another help was the cure of the near-dying Venerable Pauline Jaricot, founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, at Philomena's shrine on 10 August 1835.