At first his body was laid in state, but since so many people came to see it, the reformers were afraid that they would be accused of fostering a new saint's cult.

He attended the translation of Saint Cuthbert's remains at Durham, where he was one of examiners of the body, and declared the saint's remains uncorrupt.

The viceroy had the casket opened, and gave the saint's body his baton, royal credentials, and a letter asking the saint's support.

Liquid plaster of Paris was run into the mould left by the saint's body, creating a perfect model showing the features of the youth, the cords which bound him, and even the texture of his clothing.

The saint's body was removed from his casket and placed beside the king.

Henry then kissed the body and placed the saint's hand on his injured arm.

The saint's body was brought to his chambers.

They were finally successful in 488, when Archbishop Anthemius guided by a dream discovered the tomb of Barnabas with the saint's body lying in a coffin and on his chest a copy of the Gospel of Matthew in Barnabas ' own writing.

It is said that the saint's body was as fresh as the day it was buried.

The first class relic ( a part of the saint's body ) was given to the parish year 2005, through the effort of then parish priest Rev.

Soon after a noble lady, named Sephonia, came through Nicomedia and took the saint's body with her to Italy, and had it buried in Campania.

Basilica of St. Francis, Assisi, the most important church of the Order, where the saint's body is preserved.

In the late medieval period, Ælfheah's feast day was celebrated in Scandinavia, perhaps because of the saint's connection with Cnut.

His pupil, successor, and eventual biographer Rimbert considered the visions of which this was the first to be the main motivation of the saint's life.

Translations of this phrase differ, and it is quite uncertain whether Bede intended to say that he was cured of a speech problem, or merely that he was inspired by the saint's works.

A famous marble set, probably 2nd century, was brought to St Peter's, Rome by Constantine I, and placed round the saint's shrine, and was thus familiar throughout the Middle Ages, by which time they were thought to have been removed from the Temple of Jerusalem.

The latter's family had originally been Jewish, but Jaume's father, Guy Gassonet, had converted to Catholicism around 1455, taking the Christian name " Pierre " and the surname " Nostredame " ( the latter apparently from the saint's day on which his conversion was solemnized ).

" The villa was converted into a monastery before 500 to hold the saint's remains.

The work of the Bollandists Danile Paperbroch, Jean Bolland and Godfrey Henschen in the 17th century was one of the first pieces of scholarly research to establish the historicity of the saint's existence via their publications in Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca and paved the way for other scholars to dismiss the medieval legends.

* August 10 – Diogo Dias discovers an island which he names St Lawrence ( after the saint's day on which it was first sighted ), later to be known as Madagascar

The feast day was therefore moved in 1969 to the day of the saint's death, 4 December, the day on which his feast day is celebrated also in the Byzantine Rite calendar.

It was finished in 1269 and the saint's relics were then installed.

In the Ewing home, Sherman was baptized by a Dominican priest, who named him William for the saint's day: possibly June 25, the feast day of Saint William of Montevergine.

Portuguese missionaries had converted his family to Roman Catholicism in the 17th century, so Diệm was given a saint's name at birth, following the custom of the Catholic Church.

He also has a special affection for the martyred maiden Saint Winifred who lies at the centre of the first book in the series, A Morbid Taste for Bones, ( though this was not originally the novel chosen to launch the chronicles ), in which Cadfael takes part in an expedition to Wales to excavate the saint's bones and bring them to the Abbey in England, establishing it as a pilgrimage site of healing relics.

The current church was built in 1939 ; the patron saint's name is inscribed on the cornerstone in Polish.

In the new calendar published in 1969, the feast, which at one time occupied the highest possible rank in the Church calendar, was reduced to an optional Memorial, the lowest rank for a saint's day.

There is another tradition, with some traction among Irish scholars, that suggests the manuscript was created for the 200th anniversary of the saint's death.

There was or is also the chaplet of Saint Philomena, with three white beads in honour of the Blessed Trinity and thirteen red beads in honour of the thirteen years of the saint's life.

I heard that there was saint's king in Japan.

I heard that there was a saint's King in Japan to become a vassal.

The first of his works on Francis was Vita Beati Francisci (" The Life of Blessed Francis ", often called the " First Life "), a work on the saint's early life, commissioned by Pope Gregory IX in 1228 at the time Francis's canonization.

The saint's right hand, with which he baptised Jesus, is claimed to be in: the Serbian Orthodox Cetinje monastery in Montenegro ; Topkapi Palace in Istanbul ; and also in the Romanian skete of the Forerunner on Mount Athos.

En route to their destination however Aldhun claimed to have received a vision from Cuthbert saying that the saint's remains should be laid to rest at Durham.

The monastery claimed to have three fingers of the saint's right hand, the upper bone of an arm, one kneecap, and one of his teeth.

* Architectural shrines – in Christianity, an architectural shrine above a saint's first place of burial, as opposed to a similar shrine on which stands a reliquary or feretory into which the saint's remains have been transferred

However many scholars would see this as highly speculative to say the least and the ' battle ' may have been no more than a skirmish inflated by tradition and / or the saint's hagiographer.

Over the centuries, the saint's festival, the ancient annual fair and the running of the bulls and subsequent bullfights have all melded together.

* Welsh sailors who would call upon Saint David for protection in times of mortal danger, though this is unlikely as the Welsh have always used the saint's Welsh name Dewi.

Crozier ’ s libretto paints a dramatically bold portrait of the saint's character, exaggerating the legends and glory that have accumulated over the centuries around Nicholas's story.

to have held water from a spring near the saint's tomb in Egypt ( Paribeni 1907: 538, fig.

Although historians have proved that the saint's actual last name was Porras, the district has retained the original spelling.

Also, if the normal daily service to a saint is displaced by some more important commemoration, such as the services in the Triodion or the Pentecostarion, the saint's service will be chanted at compline, usually consisting of the saint's canon and the stichera appointed for " Lord, I have cried " at Vespers.