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9 unusual facts about St. Bernard


Ade Gardner

Gardner went to St Columbas Roman Catholic School and St. Bernard's Catholic High School at Primary and Secondary level respectively.

David King-Wood

He ended his professional life teaching English and French at St. Bernard's School in New York.

Gordon Bradley

When the Generals folded, Bradley coached the boys soccer team of Manhattan’s St. Bernard's School.

Janet Cox-Rearick

Born Janet Pearson Cox in Bronxville, New York to Vernon Cox, a schoolmaster at St. Bernard's School in Manhattan, and Mary Bostwick Cox, a Wellesley College graduate in Art History.

Michael Grace Phipps

Michael Phipps studied at St. Bernard's School and St. Paul's School before going on to Yale University.

Newbarns

Newbarns covers an area of 2.78 square kilometres and lies east of Abbey Road, encompasing Furness Abbey in its entirety, Barrow Sixth Form College and St. Bernard's Catholic High School.

St. Bernard's Church, Gibraltar

St. Bernard's started off as the Roman Catholic church of the British Armed Forces in Gibraltar.

However, it wasn't until the episcopacy of Bishop Charles Caruana that the diocese secured a loan from the Government of Gibraltar to convert the small boxlike church, which suffered from water ingress at the time, into an aesthetically pleasing modern church with all the amenities.

St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry

Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry is a Roman Catholic theological school in Pittsford, New York.


A. R. Bernard

The Bernard's took their savings and rented a small storefront in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn.

Anderson v. Jackson

Prior to Hurricane Katrina, the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) planned to demolish and redevelop four deteriorated public housing developments:  B.W. Cooper, C.J. Peete, St. Bernard, and Lafitte (collectively, "the Big Four").

Andrea St. Bernard

She lost her semifinal bout to Paige McPherson of the United States but earnt her position at the Games by beating Costa Rican Katherine Alvarado by a score of 11–8 in the third-place match.

At the 2009 World Taekwondo Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, St. Bernard was eliminated in the first round of the women's welterweight event after losing to Sun Ai-chi of Chinese Taipei.

Benny Rousselle

Other politicians who criticized the way the U.S. government handled the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina were Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans and parish presidents Junior Rodriguez from St. Bernard and Aaron Broussard from Jefferson.

Gray's Sporting Journal

Known for its photography as well as its fiction, it has published the work of such writers as E. Annie Proulx, Rick Bass, Pete Fromm, Ron Carlson, and C.B. Bernard.

Harry Kipke

The 1932 and 1933 national championships teams did not lose any games, and featured All-Americans Harry Newman, Charles T. Bernard, Ted Petoskey, and Francis Wistert.

Johann Schraudolph

The unifying conception of all the frescoes is: the Divine plan of salvation with special reference to the Blessed Virgin and the other patron saints of the cathedral, the deacon Stephen, Pope St. Stephen, and St. Bernard.

Juan Romero de Figueroa

The priest remitted the statue's leftovers to neighbouring Algeciras, where it was repaired and placed in a small chapel dedicated to St. Bernard, which was later renamed to the Chapel of Our Lady of Europe.

Ludwig Guttenbrunn

Harrison, Bernard (1997) Haydn's keyboard music: studies in performance practice.

Marge Schott

Schott was the target of frequent criticism for allegedly allowing her infamous St. Bernards, Schottzie and Schottzie 02, near complete free rein of Riverfront Stadium, including their defecating on the field.

Michael Joseph Ready

He studied at St. Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, at St. Bernard Seminary in Rochester, New York, and at St. Mary Seminary in Cleveland.

Morant Bay rebellion

Semmel, Bernard, The Governor Eyre Controversy, Macgibbon & Kee, 1962.

Neal Golden

The league eventually expanded to include public and private schools in the Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Bernard parishes.

O'Grady family

Burke, Bernard and Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, Burke's Irish Family Records.

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.

Rewley Abbey

In 1280 he offered the general chapter of the Cistercian order to found a college (studium) for Cistercians at Oxford, and the chapter accepted the offer, and decreed that the college should have the same privileges as the college of St. Bernard at Paris, and that it should be under the Abbot of Thame, as the other was under the Abbot of Clairvaux.

The Pilgrimage of the Soul

The pilgrim in Âme, when he needs an advocate to speak for him in the heavenly court, appeals to monastic patrons such as St. Benedict and St. Bernard.


see also

Alain de Lille

Certain facts of their lives have been attributed to him, as well as some of their works: thus the Life of St Bernard should be ascribed to Alain of Auxerre and the Commentary upon Merlin to Alan of Tewkesbury.

Alpine Mastiff

M.B.Wynn wrote, "In 1829 a vast light brindle dog of the old Alpine mastiff breed, named L'Ami, was brought from the convent of Great St. Bernard, and exhibited in London and Liverpool as the largest dog in England." William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, is believed to have bred Alpine Mastiffs at Chatsworth House.

Anthony Batt

3. ‘A Rule of Good Life,’ translated from St. Bernard, Douay, 1633, 16mo.

Arcis-le-Ponsart

The Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Igny was founded in the 1120s by monks from the Abbey of Clairvaux, sent by St. Bernard of Clairvaux.

Buffalo Stadium

It was bounded by Leeland Street, St. Bernard Street (present-day Cullen Boulevard), Coyle Street, and Milby Street in the East End.

Dom Bédos de Celles

The 26 images below are taken from this work, kept in the St.Bernard's abbey library in Bornem.

Eskil of Lund

With a view to being admitted to the Cistercian Order he visited St. Bernard at Clairvaux in 1152.

Geoffrey of Clairvaux

; this description and the parts in the life of St. Bernard relating to Germany were edited also by Waitz, in Mon. Germ. Hist.: Script.

Henry of Lausanne

It is impossible to designate definitely as Henricians one of the two sects discovered at Cologne and described by Everwin, provost of Steinfeld, in his letter to St Bernard (Migne, Patr. Lat., clxxxii. 676-680), or the heretics of Périgord mentioned by a certain monk Heribert (Martin Bouquet, Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France, XII.550-551).

John Sutton Hall

The Main Building was designed by James W. Drum, who also designed the original Indiana County Courthouse and the St. Bernard's Roman Catholic Church.

Junior Rodriguez

St. Bernard Parish is a Louisiana Parish (the equivalent of counties in other states) that is adjacent to New Orleans Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood.

Milwaukee Country Day School

Milwaukee Country Day School (MCD) was a country day school in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, under the headmastership of A. Gledden Santer (A.B., Cambridge), who had been operating a smaller school called St. Bernard's School since 1911; the school was begun in 1917, "incorporated by leading citizens.".

Nuss

Bobby Nuss Stadium, Chalmette High School's football stadium in Chalmette, in unincorporated St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana

Owen Snedden

During this interregnum, in August 1978, Snedden signed the integration agreements for the first Catholic Schools in New Zealand (Cardinal McKeefry School, Wilton and St Bernard's School, Brooklyn - both in the Wellington Archdiocese), to be integrated into the State education system under the Private Schools Conditional Integration Act 1975.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Troyes

Blessed Menard and Blessed Herbert, abbots of the monastery at Mores founded by St. Bernard (end of the twelfth century); Blessed Jeanne, the recluse (d. 1246);

Salvan, Switzerland

This group includes other villages such as: La Fouly, Champex, Vichères, Bruson and Super St. Bernard (now closed).

San Manuel Bueno, Mártir

The fictional location in San Manuel bueno, mártir was perhaps inspired by a real place, as suggested by the real life lake San Martín de Castañeda, in Sanabria, at the foot of the ruins of a convent to St. Bernard where to this day lives a legend of a submerged city (Valverde de Lucerna) sleeping at the bottom of the lake.