I did my shopping, had my dentist appointment, and from there I went to the women's lunch at our parish church where we discussed plans for the annual Christmas bazaar, so that dusk was beginning to gather when I drove home in the late afternoon.

The medieval parish church of Gunsbach was shared by the Protestant and Catholic congregations, which held their prayers in different areas at different times on Sundays.

He studied theology and canon law, and after acting as parish priest in his native diocese for twelve years was sent by the pope to Canada as a bishop's chaplain.

If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.

The area was part of the ancient Monmouthshire parish of Mynyddislwyn until the late 19th century.

In the early years of Aberdare's development, most of the coal worked in the parish was coking coal, and was consumed locally, chiefly in the ironworks.

Coal mined in Aberdare parish rose from in 1844 to in 1850, and the coal trade, which after 1875 was the chief support of the town, soon reached huge dimensions.

The nearby St John the Baptist Church of the same parish was originally built in the 13th century, with some of the original architecture still intact.

It was after this, while Kirk was minister of Aberfoyle parish, that he died in unusual circumstances.

The area was anciently part of the parish of Trevethin, in Monmouthshire.

However, there was still £ 13, 000 to pay on a mortgage, a fairly large amount of money in the 1880s, and Henry was at the time still only a mere parish priest.

* The parish church was originally built in the Middle Ages, but was destroyed in the fire of 1628.

The area was originally part of the Worcestershire parish of King's Norton, and was added to the county borough of Birmingham in Warwickshire on October 1, 1891.

Bolventor parish was established in 1846 ( before that date the village was in St Neot parish ) but has now been merged with Altarnun.

There was widespread opposition to the introduction of regular congregational Communion, partly because the extra costs of bread and wine that would fall on the parish ; but mainly out of an intense resistance to undertaking in regular worship, a religious practice previously associated with marriage or illness.

George Herbert was however, not alone in his enthusiasm for preaching which he regarded as one of the prime functions of a parish priest.

in fact, a contrast is often drawn in this regard with the `` impersonal '' Roman Catholic parish.

Shortly afterward, in a twist of events, everyone that Nico and Jacks arrested is suddenly let go at the request of Federal officials, and Nico is asked to stand down, not to mention the fact that the priest of Nico ’ s parish is killed in an explosion as a Mass is ending.

The resulting boundaries seem rather anomalous now ; the entire eastern side of Stoke Newington High Street and beyond, including Stoke Newington Common, were included in the next door Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, but in fact this area was then part of the parish of Hackney – not Stoke Newington – and much of it would have been regarded as being in Shacklewell at the time.

Of even greater concern to the very pious rulers was the fact that not all parish priests possessed the skill to read the Vulgate Bible.

Brown was buried in the churchyard of St. Peter and St. Paul, the parish church of Brown's small estate at Fenstanton Manor ( a fact memorialized on his tombstone ).

Although Toup was reviled by some, others allowed that he was very charitable to the poor of his parish, and that his excessive self-confidence could be attributed to the fact that he lived apart, without sufficient personal intercourse with other scholars.

In fact the charity was named for the fact that its first night shelter was at the centre of the Soho parish.

Madron Church was in fact the centre of most religious activity in the town until 1871, when St Mary's Church ( until this period a chapel of ease ) was granted parish status by church authorities though it had been registered since the new church was built in 1832.

It is regarded as forming the boundary between Walworth, Camberwell and Peckham to the south and Bermondsey to the north although the ancient parish and vestry boundaries of these do not in fact coincide with it, the Bermondsey boundary running along Rolls Road.

According to Strype the rebuilt church was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and this would seem to be confirmed by the fact that in the parish account for 1685 there is the following item: To one third of a hogshead of wine, given to Sir Christopher Wren, £ 4 2s .< ref name =" Thornbury1 "> Thornbury, Walter ( 1878 ) ' Bartholomew Lane and Lombard Street ' in Old and New London: Volume 1 pp. 522-530.

In fact, the airport is unique in dividing the parish in two: an area along the coast, separated by the airport, from the remaining residential homes and businesses along Monte and Pau Pique.

The fact that the parish that contains the town is also called " Elstree " may have had some influence on the choice of name.

One is the very simple fact that the real difficulty of representative government is how to make it representative, even in the smallest of small nationalities, even in the nearest parish council.

In fact, the Parish has had so much of an increase in families, as other local area parishes close, that the parish is going to add an addition onto the left side of the parish, to accommodate the overflow of families.

The design reflected the fact that Swadlincote was formed out of part of the ancient parish of Church Gresley.

The name Casiguran is believed to come from the Bicol phrase kasi gurang, meaning, mostly old, pointing to the fact that it was the first parish and therefore to be considered to be populated by senior inhabitants.

The future Patriarch Justinian owed his ascendancy within the church hierarchy to the fact that he had helped the Communist leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej to hide in the parish house at St. George's after the latter's escape from the Târgu Jiu internment camp in 1944.

It was not until 11 October 1926 that the region achieved both economic and political autonomy as a full municipality, a fact that was seen by locals as enviable due to its inferior status administratively ( until then it was a civil parish of the neighbouring municipality of Oliveira de Azeméis ).

Despite its name, it is in fact in the neighbouring civil parish of Wroxeter and Uppington, although, since the Diocese of Lichfield made some parish boundary changes, it is now in the ecclesiastical parish of Atcham.

Not all churches can boast a full SATB choir, and a repertoire of one -, two-and three-part music is more suitable for many parish church choirs, a fact which is recognised in the current work of the Royal School of Church Music.

" Hannover " ( as it was spelled in the 1761 charter ) was named either after a local parish in Sprague, Connecticut, or after the House of Hanover in honor of the reigning British king, George III.

Saint Herman's Orthodox Theological Seminary in Kodiak, Alaska is named in his honor, as are numerous parish churches throughout the world.

All have access to the sea and are named after the saints to whom their ancient parish churches are dedicated.

" Oxfordians also consider it significant that the nearest town to the parish of Hackney, where de Vere later lived and was buried, was also named Stratford.

At first, the school was named after the surrounding Immaculate Conception parish and did not offer higher education.

First mentioned on July 25, 1726, when parish priest of Holy Trinity Church at Będzin noted a woman named Anna Lisowa from Dąbrowa.

Madison County is the name of nineteen counties and one parish in the United States, most of which are named for James Madison, fourth President of the United States.

This Grote Kerk or Sint-Bavokerk was originally a parish church devoted to Maria, but was later named after the patron saint of Haarlem, Saint Bavo, who descended from Heaven regularly to free the Haarlemmers from invaders, most recently when the Kennemers and West-Friesians attacked in 1274.

It is named after the Earl of Wharncliffe who was the largest landowner in the parish until his holdings were sold at the beginning of the 20th century.

Despite the limited land mass, there has also been a tendency for place names to be repeated ; there are, for instance, two islands named " Long Island ", three bays known as " Long Bay " and the town of St. George is located within the parish of St. George on the island of St. George ( each known as St. George's ), whereas Bermuda's capital, the City of Hamilton, lies in Pembroke Parish, not Hamilton Parish, on the largest island, " Main Island ", which itself is sometimes called " Bermuda " ( or " Great Bermuda ").

In March 1858, a boy named David Linklater was digging at Muckle Brae, near the Sandwick parish church, when he came across a few pieces of silver lying in the earth.

The Keston Institute, now at Oxford, was so named because for some years from the early 1970s it was located ( as Keston College ) in the former parish school on Keston Common.

* Glennon-Located at the intersection of Route T and Route AB, it is named after Archbishop John Glennon, who gave permission to establish a parish here on November 29, 1905.

The parish is named for 19th-century American statesman Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Other stories, though folklore, are: 1 ) that it was named after a race horse owned by Joe Moore, one of the members of the committee chosen to name the parish, who claimed that by naming the parish after his fast horse the committee would insure the growth of the parish to be as fast as his horse: 2 ) that it was named after a popular teacher who had been an officer in the Royal Navy, only mentioned as " Mr. Vernon ".

The early French settlers named the parish for the fertility of its soils: terre bonne means " good earth.

The new parish was named after the Catholic Church located near the Opelousas Post.

Act 46 creating the parish specified that the seat of government should be named Many in honor of Col. John B.

The parish is named for former U. S. President James Madison.

Jefferson Parish was named in honor of U. S. President Thomas Jefferson of Virginia when the parish was established by the Louisiana Legislature on February 11, 1825, a year before Jefferson died.