Saint Peter (died between AD 64 and 68 on the Vatican Hill), also known as Peter the Apostle, Peter the Rock, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, and one of the first leaders of the early Church.He is traditionally counted as the first bishop of Rome‍—‌or pope‍—‌and also as the first bishop of Antioch.

The Denial of Peter is a 1660 painting by Rembrandt, now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.It depicts the denial of Peter, an event in the Passion of Jesus.. After the Last Supper, Jesus has been arrested, and taken to the house of the high priest Caiaphas for trial by the Sanhedrin.The apostle Peter has gone after Jesus, where a servant woman had recognised him as one of …

Columbanus (Irish: Columbán; 543 – 21 November 615) was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries after 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present-day France and Bobbio Abbey in present-day Italy.. Columbanus taught an Irish monastic rule and penitential practices for those repenting of sins, which emphasised …

Peter Daszak is a British zoologist, consultant and public expert on disease ecology, in particular on zoonosis.He is the president of EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit non-governmental organization that supports various programs on global health and pandemic prevention. He is also a member of the Center for Infection and Immunity at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public …

Sint Eustatius (Dutch: Sint Eustatius, pronounced [sɪnt øːˈstaːtsijʏs] ()), also known locally as Statia (/ ˈ s t eɪ ʃ ə /), is an island in the Caribbean.It is a special municipality (officially "public body") of the Netherlands.. The island lies in the northern Leeward Islands portion of the West Indies, southeast of the Virgin Islands.Sint Eustatius is immediately to the northwest ...

The curule chair was originally very similar in form to the modern folding chair, but eventually received a good deal of ornament. The most famous of the very few chairs which have come down from a remote antiquity is the reputed Chair of Saint Peter in St Peter's Basilica at Rome .

The Society's first Conference in the United States was established in 1845 in St. Louis, Missouri, at the Basilica of St. Louis King of France, or "Old Cathedral". Fr. John Timon, CM, had learned of the Society while visiting with his Vincentian superiors in Paris.From Dublin, Ireland, he brought to St. Louis copies of the SVP Rule.On 16 November 1845, Bishop Peter Richard Kenrick …

Etimologia e derivazioni in altre lingue. La parola "tè" deriva dalla resa tê (pronuncia tei) del carattere cinese 茶 nel dialetto min meridionale diffuso nel sud del Fujian e a Taiwan.Da questa pronuncia cinese derivano, con lievi varianti, le parole per tè in: malese, danese, inglese, spagnolo, svedese, yiddish, ebraico, cingalese, tamil, finlandese, francese, italiano, lettone, tedesco ...

Description. In the classic style of Niki de Saint Phalle's work, Les Trois Grâces are three large sculptures of voluptuous women (a creation that de Saint Phalle calls a 'Nana') who appear to be dancing. Made of fiberglass, one Nana is covered in white, one yellow and the other is black mosaic tiles, ranging in heights of 12 to 15 feet (3.7 to 4.6 m).

Born in 1541, in either the village of Fodele or Candia (the Venetian name of Chandax, present day Heraklion) on Crete, El Greco was descended from a prosperous urban family, which had probably been driven out of Chania to Candia after an uprising against the Catholic Venetians between 1526 and 1528. El Greco's father, Geṓrgios Theotokópoulos (d. 1556), was a merchant and tax …