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5 unusual facts about Paternò


Church of St.Catherine of Alexandria

St.Catherine of Alexandria church is a church takes up the most southern part of a wide area on the foot of the historical hill of Paternò in Sicily, close by St.Barbara church and the former convent of St. Annunziata.

Ciccio Busacca

Ciccio Busacca (1925–1984) was born in Paternò, Province of Catania.

Ferdinando d' Aragona y Guardato, 1st Duke of Montalto

1.2.1) Maria d'Aragona y de Luna, 5th Duchesa of Montalto; she married, 1590, Sicilian Francesco de Moncada y de Luna, 3rd Prince di Paternò, deceased 1595.

Issue: The so-called Antonio de Aragón y Moncada, 6th Duke of Montalto (1589–1631), 4th Prince di Paternò, 5th Duke of Bivona, who married Juana de la Cerda y la Cueva, daughter of Juan Luis Francisco de la Cerda y Aragón, 6th Duke of Medinaceli.

Matteo Civitali

This marble figure of Faith was acquired by the Uffizi Gallery in 1830 from the prior of a church at Paterno near Florence.


Adelaide del Vasto

Either through her influence or under her regency, her brother Henry del Vasto was granted Paternò and Butera.

Fernando H. Ocampo

Among these are the Manila Cathedral; UST Central Seminary; the Arguelles, Paterno (later became Far Eastern Air Transport Inc. or FEATI), Ayala, Cu Unjieng and Cu Unjieng and Fernandez buildings; the Assumption Academy of Pampanga and the residence of Mr. Joaquin Baltazar, the latter having taken the first prize in the 1930 beautiful home contest.

Gallo-Italic of Sicily

Other such communities existed also in the provinces of Catania (for example, in Paternò, Bronte and Randazzo), Syracuse (Ferla, Buccheri, Cassaro) and Palermo (Corleone).

Gonzalo of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza

In 1037 Gonzalo was reunited with his brothers García and Ramiro—and the churchmen Sancho, Bishop of Pamplona; Paterno, a Cluniac reformer; and Abbot Blasco of San Juan de la Peña—to confirm a donation of Jimeno Garcés, Ramiro's godfather, to the monastery of Leire.

Joseph V. Paterno Award

The Joseph V. Paterno Award was a coaching award that was awarded to Frank Beamer in 2010.

Manila Central University

Later on, due to the steady increase in enrollment, it was transformed into the Manila College of Pharmacy, with Dr. Leon Ma. L. Guerrero, Antonio C. Llamas, Feliciano P. Paterno and Atty.

Philippine Malolos Congress elections, 1898

Paterno defeated General Antonio Luna with 24-23 votes; Legarda against Aguedo Velarde with 21-9; and Araneta and Ocampo won with 31 and 27 votes respectively.

Prime Minister of the Philippines

On June 21, 1900, Paterno, as prisoner of war, accepted amnesty granted by the military governor General Arthur MacArthur, Jr. and he finally swore allegiance to the United States together with other members of Aguinaldo government.

Sancho III of Navarre

In 1024 a Navarrese monk, Paterno from Cluny, returned to Navarre and was made abbot of San Juan de la Peña, where he instituted the Cluniac custom and founded thus the first Cluniac house in Iberia west of Catalonia, under the patronage of Sancho.

Schurman Commission

At this point, General Antonio Luna, field commander of the revolutionary army, arrested Paterno and most of his cabinet.

Susan Paterno

Paterno was a regular cast member of both Eric Bana's comedy sketch show Eric in 1997 and Shaun Micallef'sThe Micallef Programme in 1998.

Thorbjorn Paternò Castello

The Libro d'Oro lists the Paternò family as an historical family for more than a thousand years which traces its origins to Prince Robert of Embrun and to the Sovereign House of Barcelona and Provence which arrived in Sicily in 1060 as part of the entourage of King Roger, seizing the Castle and Lordship of Paternò therefrom it assumed its name.

Filadelfo Mugnos, Theatro Genealogico, 1650, s.v. "Paternò" p.

Vicente Madrigal

He married Susana Paterno y Ramos, who grew up in Pangil, Laguna and was a poor relation to her own Manila relatives, the Paternos of Quiapo and Santa Cruz, Manila.


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