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3 unusual facts about St. Michael's Convent School


St. Michael's Convent School

Established in 1986, the school started its first academic session on 23 November 1986 under its founder principal Bishop Anthony Theodore Lobo.

Every year the school celebrates the feast of Saint Michael on 29 September, the Michaelmas.

After a distinguished academic career at the universities of Karachi, Harvard and Paris, Bishop Anthony Lobo decided to devote his entire life to improve the quality of education in Pakistan.


Alexander Hyde

His father Sir Lawrence Hyde was the second son of Lawrence Hyde of Gussage St. Michael, Dorset, who was third son of Robert Hyde of Norbury, Cheshire.

Arab Revolt

Korda, Michael, Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia.

Bayview Secondary School

In 2012, the school ranked 2nd in Ontario with a rating of 9.4 out of 10, behind St. Michael's Choir School in Toronto.

Burwash Hall

From the eastern side of the building, the Upper Houses look out at Rowell Jackman Hall and the Lower Houses see the St. Michael's College residence of Elmsley.

Catholic Order Rites

St. Michael's Abbey in California continued to use the Premonstratensian Rite into the 1980s, and many canons of the abbey continue to offer private Masses in the ancient rite.

Centre for Research on Inner City Health

Founded in 1998, CRICH is based at St. Michael's Hospital, one of Canada's leading research and teaching hospitals.

Chess problem

Lipton, Michael, Matthews, R. C. O. and Rice, John (1963), Chess Problems: Introduction to an Art, Faber.

Church of the Gesù

The Church of the Gesù was the model of numerous churches of the Society of Jesus throughout the world, starting from the Church of St. Michael in Munich (1583–1597), the Corpus Christi Church in Niasviž (1587–1593), as well as the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola in Buenos Aires (1710–1722) (Pagano 1947:18).

Cornhill, London

The street contains two of the City churches designed by Sir Christopher Wren: St. Michael, Cornhill, on the site of the Roman forum of Londinium, and St Peter upon Cornhill, reputed to occupy the oldest Christianised site in London.

Dictum of Kenilworth

Prestwich, Michael (1988), Edward I, London: Methuen London ISBN 0-413-28150-7.

Edward D. Baca

One of six children, Baca attended St. Michael's High School in Santa Fe, helping to pay the tuition by working on construction crews during summers.

Ernest William Hawkes

His 1914 publication Dance Festivals of the Alaskan Eskimo was based on the three years Hawkes spent in the Bering Strait District, including on the Diomede Islands and at St. Michael.

Étienne Gilson

At the invitation of the Congregation of St. Basil, he set up the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto in conjunction with St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto.

Freeminer

A plaque bearing the engraved coat of arms of the Freeminers is on the Greyndour tomb in the Clearwell Chapel in Newland church, and other important medieval and modern mining emblems are in the Freeminers Guild church of St. Michael in Abenhall.

Fürstenfeld Abbey

In layout the abbey church of Fürstenfeld follows the typical pattern of South German and Austrian churches such as St. Michael's Church, Munich, Klagenfurt Cathedral and the Academy Church of the Assumption in Dillingen an der Donau.

H. C. Colles

He was a Fellow and Governor of St. Michael's College, Tenbury, Chairman of the Church Music Society and Chairman of the School of English Church Music.

Haut de la Garenne

St. Michael's Preparatory School leased a dormitory block for a time, and the headmaster proposed leasing the whole site for educational and sporting purposes.

Himalayas

Palin, Michael, Himalaya, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson Illustrated, 2004.

HM Prison

The title of HM Prison is given to Dodds Prison in St. Philip, and the former Glendairy Prison in Station Hill, St. Michael.

Iklin

St. Michael's feast is celebrated the Sunday before the 29 September by the Lija fireworks team.

John Ruston

In 1976 Ruston took up an appointment as Archdeacon of Bloemfontein and as an examining chaplain to the Bishop of Bloemfontein and warden and chaplain of St Michael’s School, Bloemfontein.

Kościuszko Park

Two unique structures of wooden building in Upper Silesia, a manorial granary from 1688 (burnt in 1970) and the Church of St. Michael Archangel, a wooden church under the invocation of St. Michael from 1510 moved from Syrynia, were placed in the park.

Kyiv in Miniature

There are 48 miniatures in the park, including Independence Square and Khreschatyk, Kiev Pechersk Lavra, St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, Golden Gates, Saint Sophia Cathedral, Mother Motherland Monument, Kiev Passenger Railway Station, Boryspil Airport and others.

Minuccio Minucci

He died on 7 March 1604 during a visit to Munich, and was buried in St. Michael's Church, Munich.

Nicolás Francés

His work is considered one of St. Jerome altarpiece owned by the National Gallery of Ireland and a possible table altarpiece dedicated to St. Michael that resides in Nationalmuseum was also attributed to Francés.

Payless ShoeSource

In 2012 Payless expanded into the Barbados market by opening the first ten-employee store at Haggatt Hall, St. Michael.

Purcell Operatic Society

Burden, Michael (2004) "Purcell's operas on Craig's stage: the productions of the Purcell Operatic Society", Early Music, Vol.

Red McCarthy

His hockey career included stops with Toronto St. Michael's College, Barrie Flyers, Boston Olympics, Nelson B.C. Maple Leafs, and Sudbury Wolves of the Canadian Senior Hockey League.

San Michele Maggiore, Pavia

A first church devoted to St. Michael Archangel was built on the location of the Lombard Palace chapel (to this period belongs the lower section of the bell tower), but it was destroyed by a fire in 1004.

St. Joseph's Convent School, Bhopal

Founded in 1956 by the Indian Province of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Chambery, an order founded at Chambéry, France in 1812, it is administered by the Sisters of St. Joseph's Convent, Idgah Hills, Bhopal.

St. Michael, Minnesota

It also borders Monticello Township, Buffalo Township, Rockford Township, and the cities of Otsego and Albertville, all in Wright County, as well as the city of Hanover, which is located within both Wright and Hennepin counties.

St. Michael's Catholic Grammar School

The school was founded as St. Michael's Convent in 1908 by the Sisters of the Poor Child Jesus and is now under their trusteeship.

St. Michael's Catholic High School

Each tutor group is named after a monastic institution of learning, namely: Fountains Abbey, Iona Abbey, Abbey of Kells, Lindisfarne Abbey, Rievaulx Abbey and Whitby Abbey.

St. Michael's Church, Dublin

Thomas Taylor, founder of the Bective family, who worked with William Petty in compiling the Down Survey of Ireland, was interred here in 1682.

St. Michael's Church, Old Town, Chicago

The Daughters of Mary or Damas de Maria were also organized by Clotilde Rodriguez, Monin Jimenez, family members of the Flores, Calixto,Lugo,Lucas, Rivera, Trinidad and Eugenia Rodriguez, mother to Jose Cha Cha Jimenez, the founder of the Latino human rights organization the Young Lords.

St. Michael's Institution

Every year, there are scouts who successfully achieve the prestigious King's Scout Award Award (equivalent to the Eagle Scout Award).

St. Michael's Majors

Toronto St. Michael's Majors - an OHA/OHL team that had been in Toronto for 100 years.

St. Paul's Secondary School

St. Paul's Secondary School was founded in 1960 by the Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres as an extension of St. Paul's Convent School to meet the growing needs of science education of girls in Hong Kong.

St. Stephen's Church, St. Albans

Although there are now some questions about the exact date of its foundation (and the date of Abbot Ulsinus), it is reasonably clear that, together with St Michael's and St Peter's churches, the church was built at about that time to receive pilgrims and to prepare them for their visit to the shrine of St Alban within St Albans Abbey.

St. Xavier's College, Patna

In July 2009 classes began at its temporary location of St. Xavier’s College Campus (opposite St. Michael's High School, Digha).

Theodore Dehon

After paying a visit to South Carolina he was offered positions in Charleston, but demurred until 1810, when he accepted a position as rector of St. Michael's Church, Charleston.

Tom Farquharson

His Great-Grand son Steve Farquharson was drafted to the Ontario Hockey League in the 3rd round (58th overall) to the Toronto St. Michael's Majors where he played two season before playing one season with the Barrie Colts

Trade literature

Kernan, Michael, "Generations of old mail-order catalogs make colorful index to what folks prized and paid for, way back when," Smithsonian vol.

Türbe

Levey, Michael; The World of Ottoman Art, 1975, Thames & Hudson, ISBN 0-500-27065-1

Yiddish dialects

Wex, Michael, Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All Its Moods, St. Martin's Press, New York, 2005, ISBN 0-312-30741-1.


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