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St. Catherine's Down

There is a lighthouse built after the wreck of the Clarendon in 1837 to the west of Niton at the foot of the Undercliff.


Ancient Diocese of Ribe

In the city of Ribe there were also the Benedictine nunnery of St. Nicholas (founded before 1215), a Franciscan friary and the Dominican St. Catherine's Priory, both dating from 1259, a hospital of the Holy Ghost and a commandery of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, both dating from about 1300.

Basil Gomez

In 1988 he was a lecturer at both the University of Oxford and Jesus and St. Catherine's Colleges where he thought physical geography.

Bernardus Johannes Alfrink

Alfrink received his episcopal consecration on the following 17 July from Archbishop Paolo Giobbe, papal internuncio in The Hague, with Bishops Willem Lemmens and Jan Smit serving as co-consecrators, in St. Catherine's Cathedral.

Catholic Church of St. Catherine

Above the main entrance is an inscription from the Gospel of Matthew (in Latin): "My house shall be called the house of prayer" (Matthew 21:13) and the date the church was completed.

Donny Deutsch

Deutsch, Donny; Whitney, Catherine (2008), The Big Idea: How to Make Your Entrepreneurial Dreams Come True, From the Aha Moment to Your First Million.

Elisabeth Scott Bocock

The young Elisabeth Scott attended Miss Jennie Ellett's School (now St. Catherine's School, Richmond, Virginia) and graduated from St. Timothy's School in Stevenson, Maryland.

Escape to Last Man Peak

First published in 1975, it chronicles the adventure of ten orphans who embark on a dangerous journey across Jamaica, from Spanish Town, St. Catherine to Last Man Peak located near Falmouth, Trelawny, after a deadly pneumonia epidemic kills the caretakers of their orphanage, and propels the country into a state of anarchy and desolation.

Fort St. Catherine

It was one of a number of forts built immediately following the Virginia Company being given official sanction in 1612 for its possession of Bermuda, which it had occupied since the wreck of the Sea Venture in 1609.

Gariece McPherson

Gariece Kayon McPherson (born May 14, 1989, in Spanish Town, St. Catherine) is a Jamaican footballer and the current goalkeeper for Cavalier F.C. team.

Hardy Monument

From the top of the monument at a height of 850 feet above sea level it is possible to see on a clear day: Start Point, Devon, St. Catherine's Point on the Isle of Wight both of which are 90 kilometres distant and to the North can be seen Pen Hill in the Mendip Hills which is 65 kilometres away.

Haydar Pasha, Nicosia

On the right-hand side of the building, the spot where the tomb of St. Catherine is said to have been was still shown in the 19th century and the Greek Cypriots often come and lit their oil lamps there.

John Bernard Stephenson

John Bernard Stephenson (November 24, 1938 – March 30, 1982), also called Jack Stephenson was a Jamaican lawyer and Member of Parliament for North West St. Catherine and founder of the Charlemont High School, Jamaica.

Liturgical drama

About the beginning of the twelfth century we hear of a play of St. Catherine performed at Dunstable by Geoffroy de Gorham, later abbot of St. Albans, and a passage in Fitzstephen's "Life of Becket" shows that such plays were common in London about 1170.

Muhu St. Catherine's Church

The founding of the church is mentioned in a medieval chronicle by Hermann von Wartberge.

Peter Beckford

He took an active part in island politics, representing St. Catherine in the Assembly in 1675, and was later called to the Council where he was appointed President.

Peter Schlechtriem

He became a Fellow of St. Catherine’s College in Oxford in 2001.

Reinhard Bendix

He held guest professorships at numerous universities, including at Columbia University, St. Catherine's and Nuffield Colleges at the University of Oxford, the Free University of Berlin, the University of Constance, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the University of Heidelberg.

Smolensky Lutheran Cemetery

This cemetery contained the burials of the parishioners of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Katarina and the Catholic Church of St. Catherine, including Leonhard Euler, Xavier de Maistre, Germain Henri Hess, José de Ribas, Moritz von Jacobi, Agustín de Betancourt, Jean-François Thomas de Thomon, Ludvig Nobel, Fyodor Litke, Georg Friedrich Parrot, Karl Nesselrode, and Vladimir Lamsdorf.

St. Catherine's Academy

Captain Maguire was a United States Navy Chaplain to the Pacific Fleet during World War II.

St. Catherine's Day

A New Kind of Love (1963) references St. Catherine's day demonstrating the parades and millinery demonstrations in Paris, France.

St. Catherine's Priory

St. Catherine's Priory, Lincoln, a priory in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom

St. Catherine's Priory, Roskilde

The geatest patron of the Dominican friars of Roskilde was the immensely powerful Dowager Duchess Ingeborg (1301-c.1360), mother of King Magnus IV of Sweden and VII of Norway, who made them frequent gifts from at least 1330 onwards and also remembered them in her will.

Vera Vasilchikova

August 30, 1814, for services to the spouse was granted the Order of St. Catherine of small cross.

Vowchyn

In 1938 the remains of Stanisław August Poniatowski were moved to the Holy Trinity Chapel from St. Catherine's Church in Saint Petersburg.


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