The house of Saint Catherine in Siena

In 1889, during construction of a house in Saint Helier, a 746g gold torc of Irish origin was unearthed.

In the 16th century Sixtus V bisected Bramante's Cortile del Belvedere with a cross-wing to house the Apostolic Library in suitable magnificence. The 16th and 17th centuries saw other privately endowed libraries assembled in Rome: the Vallicelliana, formed from the books of Saint Filippo Neri, with other distinguished libraries such as that of Cesare Baronio, the Biblioteca Angelica founded by the Augustinian Angelo Rocca, which was the only truly public library in Counter-Reformation Rome ; the Biblioteca Alessandrina with which Pope Alexander VII endowed the University of Rome ; the Biblioteca Casanatense of the Cardinal Girolamo Casanate ; and finally the Biblioteca Corsiniana founded by the bibliophile Clement XII Corsini and his nephew Cardinal Neri Corsini, still housed in Palazzo Corsini in via della Lungara. The Republic of Venice patronized the foundation of the Biblioteca Marciana, based on the library of Cardinal Basilios Bessarion. In Milan Cardinal Federico Borromeo founded the Biblioteca Ambrosiana.

* The Priory of St. Gregory's is founded at Douai, Flanders, at this time in the Spanish Netherlands, by its first prior, Saint John Roberts, and other exiles, thus becoming the first English Benedictine house to renew conventual life after the Reformation.

Renoir visited Beaulieu, Grasse, Saint Raphael and Cannes, before finally settling in Cagnes-sur-Mer in 1907, where he bought a farm in the hills and built a new house and workshop on the grounds.

The 15th century beguine monastery of Saint Nicholas, and a 14th-century chapter house of the Teutonic Knights.

By 1111 the ranks had grown sufficiently at Cîteaux, and Stephen sent a group of 12 monks to start a " daughter house ", a new community dedicated to the same ideals of the strict observance of Saint Benedict.

After the death of Hill's wife in 1921, the house was donated to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis.

According to tradition, it was founded re-using a former temple of the God Mercury to house the remains of Saint Carpophorus and other local martyrs.

The pilgrimage to the Abbey of Saint Giles also had a political goal ; Bolesław strengthened his ties of friendship and alliance with the Arpad dynasty the ruling house of Hungary.

Farmers believing in the house tomte could be seen as worshipping false gods or demons ; in a famous 14th century decree Saint Birgitta warns against the worship of tompta gudhi, " tomte gods " ( Revelationes, book VI, ch.

Napoléon returned and took residence in the house after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo ( 1815 ), before his exile to the island of Saint Helena.

Following the killing, Yusupov was subject to a virtual house arrest in his estate outside Saint Petersburg.

At the entrance, above the doors, two recesses house the statues of Saint John the Baptist, patron saint of Chenonceau and Italian Masdone in the style of Luca della Robbia.

In Ellicott City, Maryland the Conventual Franciscans of the St. Anthony Province dedicated their old novitiate house as The Shrine of St. Anthony which since 1 July 2004 serves as the official Shrine to Saint Anthony for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the nation's premier see.

The Benedictine priory of St Gregory the Great was founded by Saint John Roberts at Douai in 1605, with a handful of exiled English Benedictines who had entered various monasteries in Spain, as the first house after the Reformation to begin conventual life.

It is thought that Archbishop ( later Saint ) Anselm stayed in the manor house of St Mary's church.

Throughout the Ottoman occupation, especially before the beginning of the Greek War of Independence, Piraeus was mostly deserted, except for the monastery of Saint Spyridon ( 1590 ) and a customs house, and it was only used for small intervals for commercial issues.

The first festival was held from the 5 June 1948 to the 13 June 1948 and used the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall, a few doors away from Britten's house in Crabbe Street, as its main venue, with performances in other venues such as Aldeburgh's fifteenth-century church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

His publishing house was complemented during the Second Empire by painter artists ' workhalls for the decoration of churches: three of their main works, in the style of Eugène Delacroix, still remain in the choir of the church of Saint John the Baptist of Audresselles ( Pas de Calais, France ).

Childbert was also one of the more religious of the sons of Clovis, cooperating with his brothers, rescuing his sister, and constructing the famous monastery of Saint Vincent to house his relics.

Malmesbury Abbey, at Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England, is a religious house dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

The house was located on the turnpike ( on the corner of Broadway and Saint.

Jesus later spoke to Ananias in a vision, and told him to go to the " street which is called Straight ", and ask " in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus ".

* Judas, in whose house on the Street called Straight in Damascus Saul of Tarsus regained his sight

He was greeted in Damascus as a spiritual master and a spacious house was provided to him by the Grand Qadi of the town Ibn Zakī.

In Damascus, he devoted himself to writing and teaching to fulfil the commandment of his Lord: “ Counsel My servants .” The first thing he did was to collect and disseminate the works which had already been written, copies were made and reading sessions took place in his house.

Moorish architecture has its roots deeply established in the Arab tradition of architecture and design established during the era of the first Caliphate of the Umayyads in the Levant circa 660AD with its capital Damascus having very well preserved examples of fine Arab Islamic design and geometrics, including the carmen, which is the typical Damascene house, opening on the inside with a fountain as the house's centre piece.

In 1530, the first coffee house was opened in Damascus, and not long after there were many coffee houses in Cairo.

The popularity of Kashmiri Song and The Lover in Damascus kept her in the good graces of her publishing house and in the hearts of her audience.

“ Sayeeda Zainab was born in the 6th year of Hegira in the house of the Prophet in Medina ….“ Zainab the Senior ”, to distinguish her from “ Zainab the Middle One ”, her sister born in year 9 of Hegira ( named “ Um Kaltoum ”, after her aunt ), … “ Zainab the Junior, whose mausoleum is in Arrawiya village in Damascus, according to Ibn Al Hourani, in his work “ Places of Visits ” and al-Mousili, in his book “ Al Ma ’ aref ” ( Knowledge ).”

The new house of worship was meant to serve as a large congregational mosque for the citizens of Damascus and as a tribute to the city.

When, in late afternoon on the last day in June, he saw two people top the ridge to the south and walk toward the house, he quit work immediately and strode to his rifle.

His visitors had crawled through the south fence and were crossing the meadow, angling toward the house.

Reaching the house ahead of them, he waited with his Winchester in his hands.

Leaning his Winchester against the front of the house, he walked to the girl.

There's water in the house ''.

He picked her up, sliding one hand under her shoulders, the other under her knees, and carried her into the house.

He brought his Winchester in from the front of the house, then faced the boy.

They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.

You fell down in front of the house, and I carried you in.

He carried the tub from the back of the house where it hung from a nail in the wall.

The two horses broke from the yard, from the circle of light cast by the lamp still burning in the house, into the darkness.

He added, `` If this doesn't work out, the three of you barricade yourself in the house and talk terms with them ''.

The rest of us can fort up in the house and hang on until you get back.

He turned and raced across the parade ground toward the rock house.

Guerrillas were only a dozen yards away, charging the house.

That afternoon when they had pulled up in front of the broken-down ranch house, his hopes had been high.

And they had almost everything they needed: land, a house, two whiteface bulls, three horses.

They had the house cleaned up by noon, and Wilson sent the boy out to the meadow to bring in the horses.

They reached the guard house without alerting the men on the walls above, and Powers slipped through the door.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When the station wagon drew abreast of the dusty dirt road that led up to the porch of the Culver house, Pamela turned the wheel, guiding the car to its familiar parking spot close to the house, and stopped.

She locked the ignition, removed the keys, stepped out of the car and went into the house.

Slowly and thoughtfully, she slipped the ornament into the pocket of her slacks, moved down the stairs and out of the house.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.