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unusual facts about Saint Bernard


Andrew Breen

He was rector of St. Patrick's Church, Mt. Morris, New York, Professor of Holy Scripture and Hebrew at Saint Bernard's Seminary, Rochester New York and at St Francis Seminary, St Francis, Wisconsin, USA.


Claudianus Mamertus

The logical method pursued by Claudianus commanded the esteem and investigation of Berengarius of Tours, Nicholas of Clairvaux, secretary to Saint Bernard, and Richard de Fournival.

Königsberger Paukenhund

The tradition dates from the 1866 Battle of Königgrätz, where troops of the Prussian 43rd Infantry Regiment ("Duke Karl of Mecklenburg-Strelitz") overran the drum wagon of the Austrian 77th Infantry Regiment ("Karl Salvator of Tuscany"), whose dog, a Saint Bernard named "Sultan", had been shot.

Pukapuka

The Spanish explorer Álvaro de Mendaña saw it on the feast day of Saint Bernard, on Sunday 20 August 1595 and named it San Bernardo.

Sacred Heart College, Geelong

There are four houses, named after the home towns of some well known saints: Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Saint Anthony of Padua, Saint Catherine of Siena and Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.


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Chiaravalle Abbey

The complex is accessed through a 16th-century tower commissioned by Louis XII of France; to the side there is an oratory dedicated to Saint Bernard which contains a fresco of Christ standing before Pilate, once attributed to Hieronymus Bosch but today assigned to the Swiss Hans Witz (also known as Johannes Sapidus), who was court painter in Milan during the rule of Galeazzo Maria Sforza.

Georges Rouget

Rouget began his professional career as his master's main assistant until David's exile to Brussels, collaborating with him on the canvases Bonaparte at the Grand-Saint-Bernard, The Coronation of Napoleon (of which he made a copy signed by David), Leonidas at Thermopylae and on one of the three copies of the Portrait of Pope Pius VII.

Saint-Bernard, Ain

The artist Maurice Utrillo is reported to have lived in the castle and completed a number of his works there.

Scouting in Louisiana

Chilantakoba Lodge works as an integral part of the Southeast Louisiana Council in serving Scouting in Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemine, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles, Saint James, Saint Tammany, and Terrebonne Parishes, as well as a portion of Mississippi.