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unusual facts about Theophilus


Literal contracts in Roman law

The details of literal contracts are taken form a brief account in Gaius' Institutes, a considerably different account by Theophilus, brief references in other legal texts and mere allusions in texts by non-legal authors.


Arthur Giry

He prepared a new edition of the monk Theophilus' celebrated treatise, Diversarum artium schedula, and for several years devoted his Saturday mornings to laboratory research with the chemist Aimé Girard at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, the results of which were utilized by Marcellin Berthelot in the first volume (1894) of his Chimie au moyen âge.

Atik Mustafa Pasha Mosque

Towards the middle of the ninth century, Princess Thekla, eldest daughter of Emperor Theophilus enlarged a small oratory, dedicated to her patron saint and namesake, lying 150 m east of the Church of Theotokos of the Blachernae.

Autryville, North Carolina

Autryville is home to Micajah Autry, a Sampson County resident and son of Theophilus and Elizabeth (Crumpler) Autry who fought in the Battle of the Alamo alongside Davy Crockett.

Brummana

Theophilus Waldmeier (Swiss) 1832–1915: Theophilus Waldmeier, was born in 1832 in Basle, Switzerland.

Cennino Cennini

His discussion of oil painting was important for dispelling the myth, propagated by Giorgio Vasari and Karel Van Mander, that oil painting was invented by Jan van Eyck (although Theophilus (Roger of Helmerhausen) clearly gives instructions for oil-based painting in his treatise, On Divers Arts, written in 1125).

Charles Isaac Stevens

He was consecrated on 6 March 1879, with the religious title 'Mar Theophilus I', by Richard Williams Morgan, of the Ancient British Church, with the assistance of the following bishops Frederick George Lee, John Thomas Seccombe, and Thomas Wimberley Mossman; the latter three were bishops in the Order of Corporate Reunion, an independent association promoting the reunion of Anglicans and other British Protestants with the Roman Catholic Church.

Cibber

Susannah Maria Cibber, English singer and actress; wife of Theophilus Cibber

Cyril of Alexandria

These monks' violence had already been used, 15 years before, by Theophilus (Cyril's uncle) against the "Tall Brothers"; furthermore, it is said that Cyril had spent five years among them in ascetic training.

Doctor Khumalo

Theophilus Doctorson "Doctor" Khumalo also known as "16 valve" (born 26 June 1967 in Soweto) is a retired South African soccer player.

Elizabeth Hastings

Lady Elizabeth Hastings (1682–1739), known as Lady Betty, daughter of Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon

Frumentius

In about 356, the Emperor Constantius II wrote to King Ezana and his brother Saizanas, requesting them to replace Frumentius as bishop with Theophilus, who supported the Arian position, as did the emperor.

Henry John Clements

# Henry Theophilus, born 24 July 1820, died unknown; he married on the 1 December 1868 to Gertrude Caroline Lucy Markham (born 28 September 1842 - died unknown), daughter of the Rev. David Frederick Markham, Canon of Windsor and Rector of Great Horkesley, Essex, England.

John Blackall

John Blackall was the sixth son of the Reverend Theophilus Blackall, a prebendary of Exeter Cathedral, by his wife Elizabeth Ley, and grandson of Bishop Ofspring Blackall, was born in St. Paul's Street, Exeter on 24 December 1771.

Joseph Mottershead

Under the signature ‘Theophilus’ he contributed essays to Joseph Priestley's Theological Repository, 1769, i.

Lampsacus

Other known Bishops of Lampsacus were Daniel, who assisted at the Council of Chalcedon (451); Harmonius (458); Constantine (680), who attended the Third Council of Constantinople; John (787), at Nicaea; St. Euschemon, a correspondent of St. Theodore the Studite, and a confessor of the Faith for the veneration of images, under Theophilus.

Liturgical drama

From the thirteenth century we have the "Play of St. Nicholas" by Jean Bodel, and the "Miracle of Theophilus" by Rutebeuf.

Margery Deane

She was the daughter of Lucius D. Davis, of the Newport, Rhode Island, "Daily News", was educated by private tutors, and in 1866 married Theophilus T. Pitman.

Metropolitanate of Gothia

Theophilus, the first known bishop of the Goths, defended the Trinitarian and Orthodox Christological position against the Arians at the First Ecumenical Council in Nicea 325, and signed the Nicean Confession of Faith.

Nash Buckingham

Theophilus Nash Buckingam (31 May 1880 - 10 March 1971), commonly referred to as Nash Buckingham, was an American author and conservationist from Tennessee.

Oil painting

However, Theophilus (Roger of Helmarshausen?) clearly gives instructions for oil-based painting in his treatise, On Various Arts, written in 1125.

Pope Theophilus of Alexandria

Theophilus appears in the novel Flow Down Like Silver, Hypatia of Alexandria by Ki Longfellow.

Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

Boyle married Lady Margaret Howard, 3rd daughter of Theophilus, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, whose charms were celebrated by Suckling in his poem "The Bride."

Theophilus ben Ananus

Theophilus was the High Priest in the Second Temple in Jerusalem from AD 37 to 41 according to Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews.

Theophilus C. Abbot

Theophilus Capen Abbot (April 29, 1826 – November 7, 1892) was born in Vassalboro, Maine, and spent his early life in Augusta, Maine.

Theophilus Cibber

His father died on 11 December 1757, leaving Theophilus just £50 in his will, and the following day Theophilus wrote to the Lord Chamberlain, the Duke of Newcastle, asking for work in a theatre.

Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon

Theophilus Hastings, 9th Earl of Huntingdon (12 November 1696 – 13 October 1746) was the son of Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon and Mary Frances Fowler.

Theophilus John Levett

Theophilus John Levett was named for his ancestor Theophilus Levett, who had served as Lichfield Town Clerk in the early eighteenth century.

A second son of Theophilus Levett and his wife Lady Jane was Berkeley John Talbot Levett, an officer in the Scots Guards.

Theophilus Jones

Theophilus Jones (18 October 1758 – 15 January 1812) was a Welsh lawyer, known as a historian of Brecknockshire.

Theophilus Lewis

Theophilus Lewis (1891–1974) was an African-American drama critic, a writer, and a magazine editor during the Harlem Renaissance whose contributions primarily appeared in The Messenger, the socialist African-American magazine founded by A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen.

Theophilus Ochang

In February 2007 Theophilus welcomed former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Juba.

In May 2011, Theophilus Ochang was elected to the Advisory Council of the Horiok community of Torit County in Eastern Equatoria State.

Theophilus Oglethorpe

Theophilus Oglethorpe is the main protagonist in John Whitbourn's The Royal Changeling, (1998), which describes the 1685 rebellion with some fantasy elements added.

Throughout the whole of this time, although loyally devoting himself to the Stuart cause, Theophilus had remained a Protestant as his father had been, and when James II finally rid his court at Saint-Germain of all non-Catholics in response to the pressure of his French hosts, Theophilus, after twenty years of service to the Stuarts, ruefully returned to Godalming and, in the late autumn of 1696, took the oath of loyalty to William III.

Theophilus Oglethorpe, Jr.

John Whitbourn's three book 'Downs-Lord' 'triptych' (1999–2002) contains a fantasy treatment of the life and death of Theophilus Oglethorpe junior.

Theophilus Thistle

Australian dance music group Sonic Animation used a version of the tongue twister in their break-out song "Theophilus Thistler".


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