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2 unusual facts about Augustine


Augustine's Pizza

Augustine’s Pizza is the preferred frozen pizza of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Pittsburgh Pirates

Beginning in the spring of 2011 Augustine’s Pizza was contracted to supply Aramark concessions at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania the home of the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball.


Albert Augustine Ltd.

In 1946, Segovia and Augustine were introduced by their mutual friend Vladimir Bobri, editor of Guitar Review.

Anglo-Saxon Christianity

Pope Gregory issued more practicable mandates concerning heathen temples and usages: he desired that native temples be Christianized and asked Augustine to Christianize pagan practices, so far as possible, into dedication ceremonies or feasts of martyrs, since "he who would climb to a lofty height must go up by steps, not leaps" (letter of Gregory to Mellitus, in Bede, i, 30).

Augustine Bockarie

Augustine Bockarie is a Sierra Leonean politician from the opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), who is currently a member of parliament representing Kono District.

Augustine Lotodo

Augustine Chemonges Loile Lotodo is a Kenyan who ran for Deputy President in the March 2013 Kenyan Presidential election on a NARC-Kenya ticket, as the running mate to Martha Karua.

Augustinergasse

In the Middle Ages, it was a small street within the town of Zürich, leading from St. Peterhofstatt at the St. Peter church, passing the former Augustine monastery below the Lindenhof hill, towards the Kecinstürlin gate at the southern Fröschengraben moat.

Augustinian Province of England and Scotland

As of 2013, there are 6 Augustinian communities around the UK; St. Mary's, Harborne, St. Joseph's, Broomhouse, Edinburgh, Clare Priory in Suffolk, St. Augustine's, Hammersmith, St. Monica's, Hoxton and St. John Stone's, Southport.

Augustinian theodicy

In God, Power and Evil: A Process Theodicy, published in 1976, David Ray Griffin criticised Augustine's reliance on free will and argued that it is incompatible with divine omniscience and omnipotence.

Battle of Chester

The charge against Augustine was challenged or rejected by scholars of the 18th and 19th century such as Elizabeth Elstob, Henry Spelman, Henry Wharton, and Jeremy Collier.

Bay View Historical Society

They have restored the area surrounding the Pryor Avenue Iron Well and designated historical landmarks at the following locations: Beulah Brinton House, Bay View United Methodist Church, Bay View Rolling Mill, Puddler's Hall, St. Augustine School, St. Lucas Lutheran Church, Estes Home, Kneisler's White House Tavern, Club Garibaldi, Trowbridge Street School, Dover Street School, European Copper Beech Tree, Immaculate Conception Church, and the Keller Winery.

Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England

The monk Goscelin recorded a short legend that after converting Æthelberht of Kent, Augustine traveled into Wessex to convert the population.

Christopher Augustine Reynolds

Christopher Augustine Reynolds (1834–1893) was a Roman Catholic clergyman who became the first Archbishop of Adelaide, Australia.

Clement of Ireland

Ailbe was then given the direction of the "monastery of Saint Augustine" near Pavia, identifiable as the Abbey of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, "sometimes named after Saint Augustine, because it contained many of his relics".

Confraternities of the Cord

When, after the canonization of St. Nicholas of Tolentine, it came into general use among the faithful, Pope Eugene IV in 1439 erected the Confraternity of the Cincture of St. Monica, St. Augustine, and St. Nicholas of Tolentine, in the Church of St. James at Bologna.

Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum

Since the establishment of the series in 1864 and the appearance of its first volume in 1866, ninety-five volumes have been published, ranging from Sulpicius Severus to Augustine.

Cross of St Augustine

The Cross of St Augustine is an award of merit in the gift of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Devotio Moderna

In addition, though, under the leadership of Radewyns, in 1387 some members of the Deventer house set up a new community at Windesheim, near Zwolle, and adopted the habit and rule of St Augustine.

Eduardo Anguita

Eduardo Anguita was raised in San Bernardo, before integrating the College of the Augustine Fathers in Santiago.

Edward Harney

Edward Augustine St Aubyn Harney (31 August 1865 – 17 May 1929) was an Irish lawyer who sat in both the Australian Senate and the British House of Commons, and who also had a political and legal career in Australia.

Faith Daniels

Born Faith Augustine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Daniels attended Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia–where she was initiated as a member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority–and graduated from Trinity High School in Washington, Pennsylvania.

Faxton

In 1610, the Manor of Kibworth, Leicestershire was jointly granted to Augustine, Anthony Shugborough and John Smith after Ambrose Dudley, the Earl of Warwick, died without an heir.

Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park

Author Charlie Carlson claims to have spoken with a supposed St. Augustine-based secret society claiming to be the protectors of the Fountain of Youth, which has granted them extraordinary longevity.

Georges Coulon

Georges Coulon was officially the son of the actress Augustine-Antoinette Finot-Léonard and Antoine Coulon, choreographer and ballet director at the Paris Opera and Her Majesty's Theatre in London.

Gerre Hancock

In 2004 he was honored in a ceremony at Lambeth Palace in London where he was presented the Medal of the Cross of St. Augustine by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

John Oballa Owaa

Tindinyo College has since been turned to a Major seminary and Theologicum, Later he joined St. Augustine Senior Seminary, Mabanga from 1980 to 1982 and St. Thomas Aquinas National Major Seminary, Nairobi) from 1982 to 1986.

June Palmer

Mary Millington (at that time using her married name Mary Maxted), Carole Augustine and Ava Cadell all worked as models for Strobe Studios in the early 1970s.

Ketevan the Martyr

Niraj Rai of the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India carried out ancient DNA analysis on these human bone remains excavated from the St. Augustine convent by sequencing and genotyping of the Mitochondrial DNA.

Lewis Ayres

Together with Michel Barnes, Associate Professor of Theology at Marquette University, and Rowan Williams, Ayres is part of a rereading of Augustine's trinitarian theology that breaks with the older neoplatonic-centered account.

Martin Gerbert

Between 1754 and 1764 he published a series of theological treatises, their main tendency being to modify the rigid scholastic system by an appeal to the Fathers, notably Augustine; from 1759 to 1762 he travelled in Germany, Italy and France, mainly with a view to examining the collections of documents in the various monastic libraries.

Maurice Nyagumbo

Nyagumbo was born in Makoni near Rusape, and had his primary education at St Faith Anglican Mission and St Augustine's Penhalonga.

Michel René Barnes

Along with Lewis Ayres, professor of Catholic and historical theology in the University of Durham, and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Barnes is part of a rereading of Augustine's trinitarian theology that contradicts the older, neoplatonic-centered account.

New Hall School

The school chapel runs weekly Sunday mass which are open to the public and serves the Parish of St Augustine of Canterbury, Springfield.

Otto, Duke of Austria

He founded the Neuberg Abbey at Neuberg an der Mürz in Styria and the Chapel of Saint George in the Augustine Church in Vienna.

Pedro Menendez High School

It was named for Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, a sixteenth-century Spanish admiral and pirate hunter who founded St. Augustine, the first permanent European settlement and oldest port city in what is now the continental United States, on August 28, 1565.

Raymond Ramcharitar

Ramcharitar was educated at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, where he was awarded three degrees: a Bachelor's in Economics (1991), a Master's in Literatures in English (2002), and a Doctorate in Cultural History (2007).

Roman Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine

The era of progress inaugurated by Bishop Verot continued under the administration of Bishop John Moore (1877–1901), whose successor, the Right Rev. William John Kenny, was consecrated by Cardinal Gibbons 18 May 1902, in the historic cathedral of St. Augustine.

Saint Augustine Blues

Many of the members of the Saint Augustine Blues were descendants of settlers from Minorca and a smaller group of Italians and Greeks from Italy and Greece collectively referred to in this instance as the Minorcans, that fled Andrew Turnbull's failed colony at New Smyrna and were granted sanctuary in St. Augustine by the governor of then British East Florida Patrick Tonyn.

San Augustine County, Texas

American photographer John Vachon took a series of photographs of rural schoolchildren in San Augustine County, Texas, for the Farm Security Administration in 1943.

Santa Catalina de Guale

In 1683 the French pirate Michel de Grammont raided Spanish Florida settlements, including St. Augustine and the Mocama mission province, forcing further southward migrations.

St Jude's Church, Kensington

The chancel has several interesting features: the reredos is alabaster, with mosaics by Antonio Salviati, and sculpted figures of St Jude, St Peter, and St Augustine.

St. Augustine's of Canterbury, Wiesbaden

In the mid-1970s Pastor Martin Niemöller and his wife, Sybil, were communicants at St. Augustine's.

St. Clair Avenue

St. Clair Avenue takes its name from Augustine St. Clare, a character from the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Standard Tibetan

Cassian di Macerata sent home materials which were used by the Augustine friar Aug.

Thomas Forret

The canons having, it is said, begun to manifest their discontent at their daily allowance, the abbot, in order to divert their attention from their personal grievances, gave them the works of Augustine to study instead of the book of their foundation.

Tom Barrett

Leslie Stuart (1863–1928), English composer born as Thomas Augustine Barrett

Toyin Raji

Augustine Masilela of South Africa made the cut in 10th place, denying Raji the chance of becoming Nigeria's first Miss Universe semifinalist.

Tunnel Through the Deeps

Captain Washington and Sir Isambard Brassey-Brunel (descendant of Isambard Kingdom Brunel) get together to link the heart of the British Empire with its far-flung Atlantic colony in North America, although they fall out over Augustine's wooing of Isabard's young daughter, Iris, and as a result of disputes over engineering techniques.

Vicelinus

After in 1330 the Augustine canon-law college moved to Bordesholm his body was transferred there too in 1332, and buried before the main altar.


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