In 1173 Pope Alexander III, after reprimanding certain bishops for having permitted veneration of a man who was far from being a saint, decreed: " You shall not therefore presume to honour him in the future ; for, even if miracles were worked through him, it is not lawful for you to venerate him as a saint without the authority of the Catholic Church.

This portraiture of gladiators has been the highest interest in art for many centuries now, but it was Gaius Terentius who began the practice of having pictures made of gladiatorial shows and exhibited in public ; in honour of his grandfather who had adopted him he provided thirty pairs of Gladiators in the Forum for three consecutive days, and exhibited a picture of the matches in the Grove of Diana.

Reynolds alluded to Keppel's trial in the painting by having him have his hand on his sword, reflecting the presiding officer's words at the court-martial: " In delivering to you your sword, I am to congratulate you on its being restored to you with so much honour ".

: The Court the East India Company you say, are ruffled by my having caused the Maharajah to cede to the Queen the Koh-i-noor ; while the ' Daily News ' and my Lord Ellenborough of India, 1841-44 are indignant because I did not confiscate everything to her Majesty ... motive was simply this: that it was more for the honour of the Queen that the Koh-i-noor should be surrendered directly from the hand of the conquered prince into the hands of the sovereign who was his conqueror, than it should be presented to her as a gift — which is always a favour — by any joint-stock company among her subjects.

Landing at Blackman's Bay and later having the Dutch flag flown at North Bay, Tasman named the island Anthoonij van Diemenslandt in honour of Anthony van Diemen, the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies who had sent Tasman on his voyage of discovery in 1642.

The founding of St. James tomb was a formidable political success for the Kingdom of Asturias: Now Asturias could claim the honour of having the body of one of the apostles of Jesus, a privilege shared only with Asia ( Ephesus ) where Saint John was buried, and Rome, where the bodies of Saint Peter and Saint Paul rested.

The treaty allowed the Namaqua to keep their arms, and Witbooi was released having given his word of honour not to continue with the Hottentot uprising.

Assessing the scale of Bering's achievements is difficult, given that he was neither the first Russian to sight North America ( that having been completed by Gvozdev during the 1730s ), nor the first Russian to pass through the strait which now bears his name ( an honour which goes to the relatively unknown 17th century expedition of Semyon Dezhnev ).

In return, the Athenians bestow on him a new religious honour, synnaos (" having the same temple ") of the temple of the goddess Athena.

The station was named after the street on which it stands, which in turn was named in honour of Lord Liverpool, prime minister from 1812 to 1827, having been built as part of an extension of the City towards the end of his term in office.

With Sir Henry Rawlinson and Dr Edward Hincks he shares the honour of having been one of the first decipherers of the cuneiform inscriptions of Nineveh.

Colbert has the honour of having founded the Academy of Sciences ( now part of the Institut de France ), the Paris Observatory, which he employed Claude Perrault to build and brought Giovanni Domenico Cassini ( 1625 – 1712 ) from Italy to superintend, the Academies of Inscriptions and Medals, of Architecture and of Music, the French Academy at Rome, and Academies at Arles, Soissons, Nîmes and many other towns.

Atherton has the dubious honour of having the lowest batting average of any player to have scored 6, 000 or more runs in Test cricket.

Dr Samuel Johnson, in his A Dictionary of the English Language ( 1755 ), defined honour as having several senses, the first of which was " nobility of soul, magnanimity, and a scorn of meanness.

From the viewpoint of anthropologists, cultures of honour typically appear among nomadic peoples and herdsmen who carry their most valuable property with them and risk having it stolen, without having recourse to law enforcement or government.

This notable Viking leader has been given the honour of having introduced Christianity to Sola.

Subsequent works in that department were avowedly based on his, and to him will always belong the honour of having been, to quote Hitzig, " the second founder of the science of the Hebrew language.

The English spelling of the name, George, instead of Georges, the usual French spelling, is explained by his having been named in honour of King George III.

This made him pass a foolish youth, the sport of peers and poets ; but his having a very good heart enabled him to support the clerical character when he assumed it, first with decency and afterwards with honour " ( O Ruffhead, Life of A. Pope, p. 291 ).

He won a double first, however, and was elected a fellow of Oriel in April 1854, Dean Thomas Gaisford having refused to promote him to a senior studentship of his own college, on the ground that no servitor had ever before attained to that honour.

Prior to Mr Buckley being unmasked by the London Evening Standard, one urban myth grew that the nose is there in honour of the Duke of Wellington, who was known for having a particularly large nose.

Ancient tradition ascribed to Menes the honour of having united Upper and Lower Egypt into in a single kingdom and becoming the first pharaoh of Dynasty I.

The corner where the accident happened, renamed in his honour, no longer exists, having been replaced with a chicane, the Variante Ascari.

In 1907, by virtue of being the Member of Parliament with the longest continuous service, Campbell-Bannerman achieved the honour of becoming the Father of the House, the only serving British Prime Minister to do so to date.

He was received ( as one of 20 distinguished Old Wykehamists ) on 4 May 2011 at the Ad Portas celebration, the highest honour that the College bestows.

Banks played his 73rd England game in a 1 – 0 win over Scotland at Hampden Park on 27 May 1972 and was awarded the Football Writers ' Association Footballer Of The Year honour.

The rite of her sacred fires is a modern festival held in honour of the Goddess Hekate all around the world at the Full Moon in May each year, with thousands participating in more than 18 languages, including English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, German, Serbian, Welsh and Esperanto.

Before 1961, May 24 was celebrated in Jamaica as Empire Day in honour of the birthday of Queen Victoria and her emancipation of slaves in Jamaica.

On 3 May, Parliament decreed The Protestation, attacking the ' wicked counsels ' of Charles's government, whereby those who signed the petition undertook to defend ' the true reformed religion ', parliament, and the king's person, honour and estate.

In 2001, the General Assembly proclaimed 29 May as the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers to pay tribute to the men and women who serve in United Nations peacekeeping operations and honour the memory of those who have lost their lives in the cause of peace.

In Linares the Segovia Museum " Fundación Andrés Segovia " was established in May 1995 and this birth-town of Segovia, also has a bronze statue in his honour, created by Julio López Hernández and unveiled on 25 May 1984.

Camp Barriefield was named in honour of Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Barrie ( May 5, 1774 – June 7, 1841 ), a British naval officer noted for his service in the War of 1812.

On May 29 2009 the Point Salines International Airport was officially renamed in honour of the slain pre-coup leader Maurice Bishop by the Government of Grenada.

* Genk is also rich in tradition, with a colourful carnival taking place around Ash Wednesday, the May celebrations featuring the May Queen, a flowers parade and a huge fireworks finale, and finally the Saint Martin procession, in honour of Saint Martin of Tours, one of the most popular saints in Flanders.

In November 1893, he was approached to see if he would accept a Baronetcy on the recommendation of the outgoing Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, the following February he legally changed his name to Burne-Jones He was formally created a baronet of Rottingdean, in the county of Sussex, and of the Grange, in the parish of Fulham, in the county of London in the baronetage of the United Kingdom on 3 May 1894, but remained unhappy about accepting the honour, which disgusted his socialist friend Morris and was scorned by his equally socialist wife Georgiana.

" Soon afterwards he was employed on another disagreeable mission in which the national honour was again at stake, being sent to Breda to make a peace with Holland in May 1667.

Twenty two years following the end of the Laotian War, on 15 May 1997, the U. S. officially acknowledged its role in the Secret War, erecting a memorial in honour of American and Hmong contributions to U. S. air and ground combat efforts during the conflict.

On 13 May Charles ordered Skippon to join him at York, but Skippon replied " I desire to honour God and not to honour men " and Parliament declared Charles's order illegal.

Image: Repin state council. jpg |" Formal Session of the State Council on 7 May 1901, in honour of the 100th Anniversary of Its Founding " by Repin.

In May 2001, she was Prince Charles ' guest of honour for the opening of his Spanish Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show in England.

On 4 May 1897 the first overseas passenger vessel, the Sultan berthed alongside the wharf, which had been named Victoria Quay in honour of Queen Victoria, who celebrated her Diamond Jubilee that year.

Living in Sussex he joined the Bognor Colts, as had Peter May and David Sheppard before him, and had the great honour of being bowled by Frank Worrell when they played Antilles.

Victoria Day ( in French: Fête de la Reine ) is a federal Canadian public holiday celebrated on the last Monday before May 25, in honour of Queen Victoria's birthday.

He made his final appearance for the Merengues on 21 May 2011, in a 8 – 1 home win over UD Almería, and was substituted in the 77th minute to a guard of honour from his Real Madrid team-mates.

The rejection of Un Mâle by the judges for the quinquennial prize of literature in 1883 made Lemonnier the centre of a school, inaugurated at a banquet given in his honour on 27 May 1883.