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9 unusual facts about St. Augustine


Alexander Darnes

Alexander H. Darnes (c.1840 - February 11, 1894) was an African American who was born into slavery in St. Augustine, Florida and became the first black doctor in Jacksonville, Florida.

Holy Child High School, Ghana

Holy Child School has an ongoing alliance with their fellow Catholic boys' school, St. Augustine's College.

On the 15th of January 1935, Bishop Porter blessed and led a ceremony for the laying of the foundation-stone of St. Augustine's College, which was solemnly laid by Sir Arnold W. Hodson, the then Governor.

Michel de Grammont

In May 1683, de Grammont, van Hoorn and de Graaf sacked Vera Cruz in Mexico, taking 4,000 prisoners for ransom.Later Grammont raided Spanish Florida settlements, including St.Augustine and the Mocama mission province, forcing further southward migrations.

Pendlebury railway station

It was located on Bolton Road (A666), opposite St. Augustine's Church and the former (appropriately named) Station Hotel pub which is nowadays the Isis Italian restaurant.

St. Augustine, Maryland

Land rights to the area were granted to merchant Augustine Herman by Lord Baltimore prior to 1686 but the Herman family was never able to lay proper claim to the title.

St. Augustine's Church, Whitchurch, Bristol

The church was built in 1972 to cater for the expansion of Whitchurch Parish in the suburb of south Bristol, England, UK.

St. Augustine's of Canterbury, Wiesbaden

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

WAUG-LP

T the station is owned and operated by St. Augustine's University and can be seen on Time Warner Cable digital tier channel 168 throughout much of the greater Raleigh service area.


Adso of Montier-en-Der

This latter work has been attributed to Rabanus Maurus, Alcuin, and even to St. Augustine, and is quoted by Ignaz von Döllinger among other writings of the medieval conception of Antichrist.

Bishop John J. Snyder High School

It is named after Bishop John J. Snyder, the retired eighth Bishop of the Diocese of St. Augustine.

Brad Dalton

Brad Dalton attended St. Augustine's College in Brookvale, a suburb on the Northern Beaches of Sydney.

Cairo Santos

Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Santos was unfamiliar with the American brand of football until he moved to St. Augustine, Florida, as a foreign exchange student.

Canonesses of St. Augustine of the Mercy of Jesus

The Blessed Catherine of St. Augustine, O.S.A., who was among the first volunteers to go to Quebec, was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1989.

Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine

In 1586, an attack led by Sir Francis Drake on St. Augustine resulted in the cathedral burning down.

Christophe Plantin

Besides the polyglot Bible, Plantin published many other works of note, such as editions of St. Augustine and St. Jerome, the botanical works of Dodonaeus, Clusius and Lobelius, and the description of the Netherlands by Guicciardini.

Daniel Thomas Turley Murphy

He was ordained a bishop on August 17, 1996 by Bishop Juan Conway McNabb, OSA of Chulucanas .

Dare Not Walk Alone

Dare Not Walk Alone is about the civil rights movement and its aftermath in St. Augustine, Florida, the site of prolonged inter-racial tension and protests by the NAACP and the SCLC.

Edward Kimber

Kimber had served in the militia of James Oglethorpe, and participated in a raid in 1743 that was a sequel to the 1740 siege of St. Augustine, Florida.

Elias Peter Hoayek

He was known to particularly revere the readings of the confessions of St. Augustine, the Eternal Maxims and the Imitation of Christ.

Frauenfrage

As far back as Christian antiquity the Manichaean attacks on the sacredness of marriage as those of Jovinian and Vigilantius, which sought to undermine the reverence for virginity, were refuted by the Church Fathers St. Augustine and St. Jerome.

Haudriette

Pope Gregory XV placed the religious under the Rule of St. Augustine, the vow of poverty being added to those of chastity and obedience and monastic observance and the recitation of the Office of the Blessed Virgin imposed.

History of Hispanic and Latino Americans

French Huguenots founded Fort Caroline in modern-day Jacksonville in 1564, but this fort was conquered by forces from the new Spanish colony of St. Augustine the following year.

Horatio Wright

He was sent to Florida in 1846, where he spent ten years working on the harbor of St. Augustine and the defenses of Key West.

International legal theories

In his De jure Belli ac Pacis Libri Tres ("Three Books on the Law of War and Peace") of 1625, and drawing from the Bible and from the St. Augustine's just war theory, he argued that nations as well as persons ought to be governed by universal principle based on morality and divine justice.

Jan Kryštof Liška

In Doksany he painted St. Augustine, at the monastery in Munich Hradište he painted St. Anthony, St. Francis and the Three Kings and for the Plasy monastery he painted St. Magdalene fresco (1692).

John Alexander Armstrong

Born in St. Augustine, Florida on 4 May 1922, he entered the University of Chicago at the age of 20 where he received both degrees of Banchelar and Master.

Joseph Marion Hernández

In 1837, while with the U.S. Army, Hernández was ordered to build a road between St. Augustine, Florida and Fort Capron, located near present day Fort Pierce, Florida, on the St. Lucie River.

Ketevan the Martyr

Portions of her relics were clandestinely taken by the St. Augustine Portuguese Catholic missioners, eyewitnesses of her martyrdom, to Georgia where they were interred at the Alaverdi Monastery.

Lawrence A. Oxley

During this period, Oxley also taught for a few years as an instructor at St. Augustine's College, a historically black college (HBCU) in the capital of Raleigh, North Carolina.

Mary Barbara Bailey

In 1933 she became a Canoness Regular of the Lateran (who follow the Rule of St. Augustine) and took the name Sister Mary Barbara.

Music of the Lesser Antilles

University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad.

Opoku Ware School

This meant that members of the Catholic Church who wished to have their children educated in accordance with Catholic traditions had to send them to St. Augustine's College or Holy Child College, both in Cape Coast.

Östanbäck Monastery

Other Lutheran Benedictine communities for men are "The Congregation of the Servants of Christ" at St. Augustine's House in Oxford, Michigan, United States, and the Priory of St. Wigbert in Germany.

Paul Cullen, Lord Pentland

Born in Gosforth, Northumberland, he was educated at St Augustine's High School, Edinburgh and at the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh.

Raymundus Jordanus

They have all been printed several times in the "Bibliotheca Patrum", and his "Contemplationes de amore divino" are often found in small manuals bound up with the meditations of St. Augustine, St. Bernard and St. Anselm.

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.

Three were sent by St. Francis Borgia in 1566 and ten in 1568.

Rouge-Cloître Abbey

The foundation was confirmed in 1373 by Gérard de Dainville, Bishop of Cambrai and the following year was affiliated to the order of Chanoines réguliers de saint Augustin (Canons Regular of St. Augustine).

Saint of Me

Mick Jagger sings about various people in history who had converted to Christianity, notably St. Paul and St. Augustine.

Sister Ignatia

Sister Mary Ignatia Gavin, C.S.A., (January 1, 1889–April 1, 1966) of the Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine, was known as The Drunk's "Angel of Hope"

St Augustine Chamber Orchestra

His background as a music educator consists of 18 years of teaching at the University School of St. Augustine and another 8 years at the International School of Port of Spain.

St John's, Redhill

Pearson's building is typical of his major churches, and shares characteristic features with such buildings as St Stephen, Bournemouth, All Saints, Hove, St Augustine, Kilburn and St John, South Norwood.

St. Augustine Girls' High School

It is located on Evans Street in St. Augustine.

The Questions

They formed in the summer of 1977 at St. Augustine's High School in Edinburgh and performed their first gig in December of that year at St. Margaret's Church Hall in Davidson's Mains, a suburb of Edinburgh.

University of the West Indies

This university consists of three physical campuses at Mona in Jamaica, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago, Cave Hill in Barbados and the Open Campus.

Wigbold

Wigbold, however, did not compose these answers himself, but gives verbatim, statements by eight Church Fathers: St. Augustine, St. Gregory, St. Jerome, St. Ambrose, St. Hilary, St. Isidore, St. Eucherius and St. Junilius.


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Andreas of Ratisbon

He was ordained priest at Eichstätt in 1405, and joined the Canons Regular of St. Augustine at Ratisbon in 1410, where he devoted himself to historical studies.

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.

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.

Black Stalin

Black Stalin became Dr. Leroy Calliste on 31 October 2008, when he was conferred with an honorary doctorate from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, for his tremendous dedication and contribution to Calypso music and culture in Trinidad and Tobago.

Charles Hardwick

For the university press he completed in 1858 an edition of the Anglo-Saxon and Northumbrian versions of St. Matthew's Gospel, commenced by John Mitchell Kemble; and edited for the master of the rolls the Latin History of the Monastery of St. Augustine, Canterbury, preserved in the library of Trinity Hall.

Charlie LaPradd

He later served as the president of the three-campus St. Johns River Community College in Orange Park, Palatka and St. Augustine from 1966 to 1972.

Christianity in Gaul

Proculus, Bishop of Marseille, had obliged Leporius, a disciple of Pelagius, to leave Gaul, but it was not long before Marseille and Lérins, led by Cassian, Vincent and Faustus, became hotbeds of a teaching opposed to St. Augustine's and known as Semipelagianism.

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.

Cross of St Augustine

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

Damon Dunn

Dunn has also worked with St. Augustine Soup Kitchen, the Cops-N-Kids program and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

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.

Easow Mar Timotheos Episcopa

He had his theological education at the Leonard Theological College, Jabalpur, and later at St. Augustine College, Canterbury, UK.

Former Bristol and West Building

The former Bristol and West Building on Marsh Street/St Augustine's Parade, Bristol was built in 1967 by Alec French and partners.

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.

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 Bede Dalley

Following his father's death in 1888, John and his brothers were sent to England by their Uncle and guardian William Alexander Long, where they attended St Augustine's Abbey school at Ramsgate, and Beaumont College.

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.

Just the Ten of Us

Those on the St. Augustine's staff included Father Frank Hargis (Frank Bonner), the affable headmaster; Coach Duane Johnson (Dennis Haysbert), Graham's earnest young assistant during the first two seasons; and in the third season, featured teachers Father Bud (Lou Richards) and elderly, madcap Sister Ethel (Maxine Elliott).

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.

Lady of Most Holy Rosary Parish Church

When the Spanish friars, particularly the Augustinians founded the 1733 St. Augustine Church, a Spanish mestizo introduced at Makinabang a wood sugarcane press.

Liber

His temples held the image of a phallus; in Lavinium, this was the principal focus for his month-long festival, when according to St. Augustine, the "dishonourable member" was placed "on a little trolley" and taken in procession around the local crossroad shrines, then to the local forum for its crowning by an honourable matron.

Lions Bridge

Bridge of Lions, a bascule bridge in St. Augustine, Florida, United States

Makeni Teacher's College

Makeni Teacher's College formerly St Augustine’s Teachers College is a two to three years public college located in Makeni, Bombali District, Sierra Leone.

Maurice Nyagumbo

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

Mike Del Grande

Since that time, he also received a Bachelor of Commerce and Finance degree in 1976 and a Bachelor of Education degree in 2002, both from the University of Toronto, as well as a Master's degree in Theological Studies from St. Augustine in 2000.

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.

Paul Emil Jacobs

It was removed from St. Augustine's in 1939, and since 1998 the altarpiece has been located in the church of Hohenleuben.

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 Killala

In the twelfth century three of the oldest native Irish monasteries were ordered to adopt the Rule of the Canons of St. Augustine: Cross Abbey (which had been transferred from Inisglora to Kilmore Erris); Errew in Lough Conn and Aughris in Tireragh (said to have been founded from Inishmurray by St. Molaise in 571).

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.

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 Augustine of Canterbury RC High School

The new school is on a site in Chadderton and the buildings composing St. Augustine's have been demolished (2013).

St Augustine of Canterbury RC High Specialist Humanities School was a Roman Catholic high school for 11-16 year olds, located in Werneth within the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England under the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford.

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 Monica's Priory, Spetisbury

They ran a school here until 1861, when they established St. Augustine's Priory at Abbotsleigh in Devon, and sold the premises to a community of Bridgettines from Lisbon.

St. Augustine Church, Philadelphia

St. Augustine's was featured in the 1999 thriller The Sixth Sense and the 2007 action movie Shooter.

Traducianism

Thus, writing to St. Jerome, St. Augustine said, "If that opinion of the creation of new souls is not opposed to this established article of faith let it be also mine; if it is, let it not be thine." Theodorus Abucara, Macarius, and Gregory of Nyssa also favored this view.

Uchee Billy

After his death his skull was defleshed by the attending physician Frederick Weedon from St. Augustine who kept it as a macabre curio.

William Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale

On 18 May 1878, at St Augustine's Church, London, he married Candida Louisa, a daughter of Signor Vincenzo Bartolucci of Cantiano, Italy, and they had three sons and one daughter.

William the Great

William of Maleval (died 1157), saint and founder of the Catholic congregation of Williamites, a branch of the Hermits of St. Augustine