:" for a bad custom has prevailed amongst the clergy, of appointing the most powerful people of a parish stewards, or, rather, patrons, of their churches ; who, in process of time, from a desire of gain, have usurped the whole right, appropriating to their own use the possession of all the lands, leaving only to the clergy the altars, with their tenths and oblations, and assigning even these to their sons and relations in the church.

Surviving medieval art is primarily religious in focus and funded largely by the State, Roman Catholic or Orthodox church, powerful ecclesiastical individuals, or wealthy secular patrons.

The legal right of lay patrons to present clergymen of their choice to local ecclesiastical livings led to minor schisms from the church.

There were essentially only two patrons of art in Spain — the church and the art-loving king and court.

In the late 12th century the advowson was given to the Knights Hospitallers, although the Newdigate family later became patrons of the church.

Master builders and carpenters like Williams, guided by patrons like D. H. Bare who also helped underwrite the Methodist church, determined the look of Roaring Spring's architecture rather than professional architects.

First churches and monasteries were built in the 6th and 7th centuries, among them not only the earliest verifiable church of St. Germain, but also a bishop ’ s church, of which the patrons saints Maria and Stephen were named in 662 / 664.

The first churches and monasteries were built in the 6th and 7th centuries, among them not only the earliest verifiable church of St. Germain, but also a bishop ’ s church, of which the patrons saints Maria and Stephen were named in 662 / 664.

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Its patrons were the chapter of cathedral ( led by a Dean ), the Archbishop Arnost of Pardubice, and, above all, Charles IV, King of Bohemia and a soon-to-be Holy Roman Emperor, who intended the new cathedral to be a coronation church, family crypt, treasury for the most precious relics of the kingdom, and the last resting place cum pilgrimage site of patron saint Wenceslaus.

There is believed to have been a parish in Wormeln by about 780, with church patrons Simon the Zealot and Judah.

Schlick's book begins with a preface in three parts: the composer first thanks his patrons, then briefly discusses the nature of music, and finally describes the purpose of the Spiegel: it was not intended for organists and / or organ builders, as it may seem from the title, but for those church and monastery authorities who wanted to buy an organ, or had one entrusted to their care.

Beach Boulevard was expanded from two-lanes to four-lanes in 1954, when Kraft was 9, and the Kraft home and chicken farm eventually was sandwiched between a blacksmith shop and the Red Garter cocktail lounge, whose patrons often left used condoms in Kraft's backyard that Kraft was tasked to shovel up every Sunday morning after church.

The portraits of the patrons of the church — Sebastocrator Kaloyan and his wife Desislava, as well as those of Bulgarian tsar Constantine Tikh and Tsaritsa Irina, are thought to be among the most impressive and lifelike frescoes in the church, and are located on the north wall of the church.

Even when the patrons were prominent, the churches in which the monuments were installed often lay deep in the English countryside: the monument of the Duke of Montagu ( 1752 ), soon followed by his duchess ( 1753 ), are in the church at Warkton, Northamptonshire ; Horace Walpole, an inveterate country house visitor, noted them: " well-performed and magnificent, but wanting in simplicity " was his verdict.

By 885, the two main patrons for the missionaries, Rastislav of Great Moravia and Prince Koceľ of Pannonia, as well as Cyril and Methodius had died, and the pressure from the German church became increasingly more hostile.

There is a stained glass window depicting Walter de Merton in the bell tower of the parish church, St Wilfrid's, and the warden and scholars of the college are joint patrons with the Bishop of Leicester.

She requested that the church in the Gothic style, that the name be Holy Trinity, that the reading desk and pulpit not be placed as to obstruct the view of patrons, and that the pews were to be free for everyone forever.

On weekends, special feast days, or holidays, he came to the Pueblo where he could conduct trade business, entertain friends, families, or patrons ; or prepare for services at the Nuestra Señora Reina de los Angeles Asistencia ( church ) across the plaza.

The saltire is the cross of St Patrick, taken to be the emblem of the Celtic church ; the sword and key are emblems of St Peter and Paul, the patrons of Exeter Cathedral, and the fleur de lys represents St Mary, patron of the cathedral.

Early evidence of their use in Britain includes: an equal hour horary quadrant from 1396, in England, a 1445 inscription on the tower of Heathfield Church, Sussex ; a 1448 inscription on a wooden lych-gate of Bray Church, Berkshire ; and a 1487 inscription on the belfry door at Piddletrenthide church, Dorset ; and in Scotland a 1470 inscription on the tomb of the first Earl of Huntly in Elgin Cathedral.

Marcello Malpighi is buried in the church of the Santi Gregorio e Siro, in Bologna, where nowadays can be seen a marble monument to the scientist with an inscription in Latin remembering-among other things-his " SUMMUM INGENIUM / INTEGERRIMAM VITAM / FORTEM STRENUAMQUE MENTEM / AUDACEM SALUTARIS ARTIS AMOREM " ( great genius, honest life, strong and tough mind, daring love for the medical art ).

Malpighi is buried in the church of the Santi Gregorio e Siro, in Bologna, where nowadays can be seen a marble monument to the scientist with an inscription in Latin remembering-among other things-his " SUMMUM INGENIUM / INTEGERRIMAM VITAM / FORTEM STRENUAMQUE MENTEM / AUDACEM SALUTARIS ARTIS AMOREM " ( great genius, honest life, strong and tough mind, daring love for the medical art ).

According to a now lost inscription the church was built in 1135 by Guglielmo I of Adelardi ( d. 1146 ), who is buried in it.

The sculpture of the main portal is the signed work of the " artifex " Nicholaus, mentioned in the lost inscription as the " architect " for the church.

The name seems to also be preserved in a church inscription of Salona, dating to the early 5th century.

According to an inscription found in the Santa Cruz church, its consecration took place in year 738 and was presided by a vates called Asterio.

Further south, at Whithorn, a Christian inscription is known from the second half of the 5th century, perhaps commemorating a new church.

His will instructed that he be buried at the church at Shenley, Hertfordshire, his tomb stone there has this inscription:

* Carmina ecclesiastica ( modern title ), i. e. a number of Latin tituli designed for inscription on a church or altar.

In front of the church of Saint Castor stands a fountain, erected by the French in 1812, with an inscription to commemorate Napoleon's invasion of Russia.

He was buried in the church of St Nicholas, where an inscription to his memory is still to be seen.

A column capital of VII c. Christian church with an inscription in Caucasian Albanian, found in Mingachevir.

An inscription written in 1356 on a wall of a church in the Macedonian region of Tikveš, mentions a Nikola and a Marko as governors in that region, but the identity of this Marko is disputed.

Dobre transcribed a liturgical book for the church in the village of Kaluđerec, and when he finished the job, he wrote an inscription in the book which begins as follows:

File: Eartham church inscription Emily Huskisson. JPG | Eartham Church plaque erected by Huskisson's wife Emily

In an inscription dated 1195 in the church of St. Luke in Kotor, Vukan is titled as King of Duklja, Dalmatia, Travunia, Toplica and Hvosno.

* Székelyderzs: a brick with runic inscription, found in the Unitarian church

* Székelydálya: runic inscription, found in the Calvinist church

Image: Enlaka rovas inscription. jpg | Inscription in Énlaka's Unitarian church ( 1668 )

On the beam of a screen in the church of Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, is the following inscription in raised blackletter on a scroll held by two angels: " This cost is the bachelers made by ales thesn be ther med.

And the identification is confirmed by the fact that in the now destroyed church of the Guillemins was a tombstone of Mandeville, with a Latin inscription stating that he was otherwise named " ad Barbam ", was a professor of medicine, and died at Liège on November 17, 1372: this inscription is quoted as far back as 1462.