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2 unusual facts about Blessing


Irish neutrality

At the border the Guard of Honour performed a drill with reversed arms, a Bugler sounded the Last Post and a Chaplain gave a Blessing.

World Animal Day

Numerous churches throughout the world observe the Sunday closest to October 4 with a Blessing of the Animals.


Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America

In 1991, the (then) Protopresbyter Ilia Katre, who had served for many years as Dean of Students at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Brookline, MA, took up residence in Albania, organized and opened the Resurrection of Christ Seminary with the blessing of the newly arrived Patriarchal Exarch, Anastasios.

Amulet

Pope Pius IX gave this scapular his blessing, but it was first formally approved under Pope Leo XIII.

Anne Charleston

In late 2006 Charleston joined the cast of Emmerdale, originating the character of Lily Butterfield, the estranged sister of Edna Birch (Shirley Stelfox) who arrives to attend her great niece Eve's wedding blessing.

Anugerah

Anugerah (Blessing) is an Indonesian television serial sinetron fifth long-running drama with 473 episodes after Cinta Fitri with 1002 episodes, Putri yang Ditukar with 676 episodes, Islam KTP with 558 episodes and Suami-Suami Takut Istri with 512 episodes.

Arbellara

Blessing of the houses on Holy Saturday: they offer the priest eggs, ham, and sheep cheeses.

Bark Mitzvah

Blessing of the Animals: A Guide to Prayers & Ceremonies Celebrating Pets & Other Creatures. New York: Sterling.

Bristol Harbour Festival

In previous years entertainment has included Beth Rowley, The Hot 8 Brass Band,DJ Derek, Gabby Young and the Other Animals, Sheelanagig, The Blessing and Phantom Limb,Let's Tea Party, Kid Carpet, Nuala and the Alchemy Quartet, The She Creatures, Natty, Barry Adamson

Bruno Platter

On 29 October 2000 he received his abbatial blessing from Dr. Wilhelm Egger, Bishop of Bolzano-Brixen.

Dominus vobiscum

Dominus vobiscum, a Latin phrase meaning "The Lord be with you", is an ancient salutation and blessing traditionally used by the clergy in the Roman Catholic Mass, as well as in the liturgies of other Western Christian denominations.

Exsultet

Since the 1955 revision of the Holy Week rites, the Roman Missal explicitly gives the title "Praeconium" to the Exsultet, as it already did implicitly in the formula it provided for blessing the deacon before the chant: "ut digne et competenter annunties suum Paschale praeconium".

Florent Vollant

His Innu-language album of Christmas songs, Nipaiamianan, earned him an apostolic blessing from Pope John Paul II, as well as the Juno Award for Aboriginal Recording of the Year in 2001.

Goteki

The group took their name from one of the teams in the PlayStation game Wip3out (eventually securing Sony's blessing to use the name).

Hasidic philosophy

The Hasidic followers have the custom of handing pidyon requests for blessing to the Tzaddik, or visiting the Ohel graves of earlier leaders.

Hawai'i Championship Wrestling

Those who attended the private belt blessing ceremony included several wrestlers of native Hawaiian decent, as well as "guests" belt maker Reggie Parks, Ed Chuman (NWA Midwest), Bill Apter (pro wrestling journalist and current HCW Commissioner), Teruo Kawana and Masahiro Chono (NWA Japan and NJPW).

Heffelfinger

William Walter "Pudge" Heffelfinger (1867, Minneapolis, Minnesota - 1954, Blessing, Texas), an American football player

Henry Thurston

On 23 September 1999 Mr Les Cooper, one of the oldest former pupils (1916 - 1925) formally opened the new buildings in the presence of the Bishop of Winchester, the Right Reverend Michael Scott-Joynt who conducted a service of Blessing.

Jimmy Dimos

When Dimos became Speaker, Allen Bares of Lafayette, with Roemer's blessing, began a two-year stint as Senate President, although another candidate, Sydney B. Nelson of Shreveport, had been seeking the position for months by arranging private meetings with colleagues in their Senate districts.

Jordan Staircase of the Winter Palace

The principal or Jordan Staircase of the Winter Palace, St Petersburg is so called because on the Feast of the Epiphany the Tsar descended this imperial staircase in state for the ceremony of the "Blessing of the Waters" of the Neva River, a celebration of Christ's baptism in the Jordan River.

Kuldeep Joshi

Kuldeep's father considered his son's achievement as Asaram Bapu's blessing.

Lou Blessing

As an attorney, Blessing worked from the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court before being elected as a Colerain Township Trustee.

Along with Tracy Maxwell Heard, Blessing has introduced a plan to reduce Ohio's rising prison population and use part of the expected cost savings to strengthen felony probation supervision.

Malankara Church

These Peace Movements were initiated by Some JSOYA and OCYM members through Facebook which turned out to be a blessing for Malankara Church.

Malankara Church Peace Movement

These Peace Movements were initiated by Shinil Paul Mathews Thuruthummel, Eldhose Mathew Padickakudiyil,Johnson Jacob Koodathinalil, who are members of Youth Wings ofJacobite Syrian Christian Church and Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, through Facebook which turned out to be a blessing for Malankara Church.

Operation Blessing International

Operation Blessing partners with numerous other organizations and nonprofits, including Mayo Clinic of Minnesota, TOMS Shoes, Free Wheelchair Mission, and Tide Loads of Hope.

Paris Hilton's Dubai BFF

The production had to receive several layers of approval before moving forward; even Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, had to give his blessing.

Patterns of Conflict

This led to the instructor at the time, Michael Wyly, and Boyd changing the curriculum, with the blessing of General Trainor.

Pilegesh

Since having children in Judaism was considered a great blessing, legitimate wives often gave their maids to their husbands so they could have children with them when those women themselves where childless, normally because of infertility issues as in the cases of Sarah and Hagar; Leah and Zilpah; and Rachel and Bilhah.

Presbyterium

The presbyterium is most visible during the ordination of new priests and bishops and the Mass of the Chrism: the Holy Thursday Mass where the blessing of the oils used in the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, Anointing of the Sick, and Holy Orders takes place.

Runnymede, Toronto

The school, named for trustee James Culnan, was opened in 1970 with the official opening and blessing 6 June 1971.

Sadiya

Sadiya is famous for a flower named sotful (the word means "blessing" or a "desert flower"), which is much like Jasmine.

Satsangi

Aarti is a religious ceremony performed to gain darshan and blessing of god.

Scapular of St. Joseph

In 1898, Pope Leo XIII granted the Capuchins the right of blessing and investing this scapular.

Scapular of St. Michael the Archangel

Pope Pius IX gave this scapular his blessing, but it was first formally approved under Pope Leo XIII, who sanctioned the Archconfraternity of the Scapular of St. Michael.

Soyuz TMA-07M

The crew enjoyed their final breakfast and participated in the traditional pre-flight blessing by a Russian Orthodox Priest.

St. Peter's College of Misamis Oriental

With God’s blessing, the dreams of the founders were brought to reality as it has not only rehabilitated but have also uplifted the educational and economic conditions of our people in Balingasag and in the province.

Sylvie Tardif

In 2003 she won a by-election with 76% of the vote, without the blessing of Trois-Rivières Mayor Yves Lévesque.

The Christmas Blessing

It also featured songs by country artist Blake Shelton, including the hit "Nobody But Me", and "The Christmas Blessing" by Newsong.

Tout-Paris

Le Tout-Paris was associated with particular fashionable places in the city, such as the restaurant (Maxim's, the large urban forest the Bois de Boulogne, Deauville, and so on, defining trends, giving an artist or writer their blessing, making or unmaking the reputation of a politician.

Travis Thomas

In 2006 he was moved to the position of linebacker because of his speed and physicality with Coach Charlie Weis's blessing and was appointed captain of special teams.

Virginia Romero

Her bulto of San Isidro is carried in procession each year on 15 May, the Día de San Isidro Labrador (the Day of Saint Isidore the Farmer), when the Bishop of Las Cruces performs the blessing of the fields at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum.

Vukovar, jedna priča

It is a typical love story, between a Croat woman Ana (Mirjana Joković) and a Serb man Toma (Boris Isaković), who marry one another with the blessing of both families right before the Battle of Vukovar.

Walking the plank

In July 1822, William Smith, captain of the British sloop Blessing, was forced to walk the plank by the Spanish pirate crew of the schooner Emanuel in the West Indies.

William Commanda

He was invited in 1990 to provide a traditional blessing of the Canadian Human Rights Monument in Ottawa with the Dalai Lama.

William Corby

A statue by Samuel Murray – Father Corby, with right hand raised in the gesture of blessing – stands upon the same boulder on which the priest stood while blessing the troops that morning.

Zimbabwean parliamentary election, 2005

In some notable local results, Emmerson Mnangagwa, speaker of the previous parliament, and tipped at one time to succeed Mugabe but recently fallen from grace, lost his seat Kwe-kwe to the MDC's Blessing Chebundo.


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