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- (from the article "Newry") ...was planted by St. Patrick. Because of its position in a gap of the hills, Newry was often attacked from the 13th to the 17th century; it was burned by ...
- Saint Patrick's Day
- feast day (March 17) of St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. Born in Roman Britain in the late 4th century, he was kidnapped at the age of 16 and taken ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint Patroclus, cathedral of
- (from the article "Soest") ...economically. Although the city was heavily damaged in World War II, many timbered houses, old buildings, and much of the old town walls survived, including the Osthofentor (gatehouse; 1526). The ...
- Saint Paul
- city, capital of Minnesota, U.S., and seat of Ramsey county. Situated in the southeastern part of the state, St. Paul is at the head of navigation on the Mississippi River ... [3 Related Articles]
- Saint Paul monastery
- (from the article "Benedict Biscop, Saint") founder and first abbot of the celebrated twin monasteries of SS. Peter (at Wearmouth) and Paul (at Jarrow on Tyne, nearby); he is considered to be the father of Benedictine ...
- Saint Paul River
- river rising in southeastern Guinea, western Africa. Its source is in the mountains east of Macenta, and its upper reach (the Diani, or Nianda, River) forms part of the border ...
- Saint Paul's
- (from the article "Mdina") ...Vecchia ("Old City"). Mdina retains intact its remarkable fortifications with a complete wall and contains many 15th-, 16th-, and 17th-century Maltese palaces. Its chief building is St. Paul's, the cathedral ...
- Saint Paul's Cathedral
- in London, cathedral of the Anglican bishop. It is located within the central City of London, atop Ludgate Hill and northeast of Blackfriars. [8 Related Articles]
- Saint Paul's Church
- (from the article "Melaka") A low hill on the river's southern bank is occupied by the ruins of the Old Fort, designed by Albuquerque. The Portuguese also built St. Paul's Church (1521), now a ...
- Saint Paul's School
- one of the major public (i.e., privately endowed) schools in England. It was founded in 1509 by John Colet, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in the City of London. Originally ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint Peter and Saint Paul abbey
- (from the article "Bath") ...Bath lies along the River Avon in a natural amphitheatre of steep hills. Built of local limestone, it is one of the most elegant and architecturally distinguished of British cities. ...
- Saint Peter in Chains
- (from the article "Rome") Originally the Basilica Eudoxiana, S. Pietro in Vincoli (St. Peter in Chains) was built in 432-440 with money from the empress Eudoxia for the veneration of the chains of St. ...
- Saint Peter Port
- chief town, resort, parish, and capital of Guernsey, Channel Islands, located on the east coast of the island of Guernsey where a narrow valley reaches the sea between moderately high ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint Peter Street
- (from the article "metalwork") ...entirely of cast iron. No other city in the U.S. has two- and even three-story iron porches and balconies that can compare with those of New Orleans. Some of these ...
- Saint Peter's Basilica
- present basilica of St. Peter's in Rome, begun by Pope Julius II in 1506 and completed in 1615 under Paul V. It is designed as a three-aisled Latin cross with ... [22 Related Articles]
- Saint Peter's Cathedral
- (from the article "Peterborough") The flat city site is dominated by St. Peter's Cathedral, a structure begun in 1118 and consecrated in 1238. It is in part a good example of Late Norman style; ...
- Saint Peter's Church
- (from the article "Malmo") ...Link, a bridge and tunnel system that opened in 2000. Malmo's historic buildings include Malmohus (a 16th-century castle and fortress that is now a museum) and the 14th-century St. Peter's ...
- Saint Peter's College
- private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. It is a liberal arts college affiliated with the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic church. The college ...
- Saint Peter's Italian Church
- (from the article "London") ...Boston. Its alien communities were small (mostly fewer than 1,000 people) and localized, and some were long-established. Bevis Marks, the City synagogue of the Sephardic Jews, was founded in 1656. ...
- Saint Peter, Cathedral of
- (from the article "stained glass") England has only fragmentary remains of 12th-century glass. The nave clerestory windows in York Minster contain some reused panels from a series of narrative windows, one of which depicted the ...
- Saint Peter, Church of
- (from the article "Leuven") The three-story town hall is one of the richest and most detailed examples of pointed Gothic and was built by Mathieu de Layens, the master mason, from 1448 to 1463. ...
- Saint Peter, monastery of
- (from the article "Benedict Biscop, Saint") founder and first abbot of the celebrated twin monasteries of SS. Peter (at Wearmouth) and Paul (at Jarrow on Tyne, nearby); he is considered to be the father of Benedictine ...
- Saint Petersburg
- city and port, extreme northwestern Russia. A major historical and cultural centre and an important port, it lies about 400 miles (640 km) northwest of Moscow and only about 7° ... [17 Related Articles]
- Saint Petersburg
- city, Pinellas county, west-central Florida, U.S. It is situated at the southern tip of Pinellas Peninsula on Tampa Bay, about 15 miles (25 km) southeast of Clearwater and 20 miles ... [2 Related Articles]
- Saint Petersburg porcelain
- pottery ware produced from 1744 to the present day by the principal Russian factory, the Imperial Porcelain Factory (from 1925, the M.V. Lomonosov State Porcelain Factory), in St. Petersburg. It ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint Petersburg State University
- coeducational state institution of higher learning in St. Petersburg, founded in 1819 as the University of St. Petersburg. During World War II the university was evacuated to Saratov. The university's ...
- Saint Petersburg, Declaration of
- (from the article "war, law of") ...Promulgated to Union forces by President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War, the Lieber code was to have a profound effect on subsequent codifications of the laws of war. ...
- Saint Petersburg, Protocol of
- (from the article "Greece, history of") In 1826, by the Protocol of St. Petersburg, Britain and Russia committed themselves to a policy of mediation, to which France became a party through the Treaty of London of ...
- Saint Petersburg, Treaty of
- (from the article "Russia") ...harbours of Riga, Revel, and the new St. Petersburg. After 1721 Peter also extended the borders of the empire in the south along the Caspian Sea as a result of ...
- Saint Phalle, Catherine Marie-Agnes Fal de
- French-born artist (b. Oct. 29, 1930, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France-d. May 21, 2002, La Jolla, Calif.), first gained public attention with her artworks at which darts were thrown or guns fired. Her ...
- Saint Philip Neri
- (from the article "Borromini, Francesco") ...He never divorced himself completely from the anthropometric basis of design, however; he insisted, at least once, that his architecture contained human references. The concave facade of St. Philip Neri ...
- Saint Polyeuktos, Church of
- (from the article "Western architecture") The process of development that began in such examples had greatly advanced by the end of the century, as recently discovered remains of the church of St. Polyeuktos show. The ...
- Saint Ruprecht's Church
- (from the article "Vienna") ...Augustinians, the Church of Maria am Gestade, and the Church of the Friars Minor (officially the Snow Madonna Italian National Church), all dating from the 14th century. Vienna's oldest church ...
- Saint Sauveur
- (from the article "Argall, Sir Samuel") ...the Powhatan Indian princess Pocahontas, whom he held hostage for the return of seven English prisoners. On venturing farther northward along the coast, Argall discovered a new French settlement at ...
- Saint Saviour, Basilian Order of
- (from the article "Basilian") ...Leo XIII, these Basilians spread into Galicia, Ruthenia, Yugoslavia, and Romania and then followed immigrants into the United States, Canada, and Latin America. The present name dates from 1932. (3) ...
- Saint Servatius, Cathedral of
- (from the article "Maastricht") Maastricht's landmarks include the St. Servatius Bridge (c. 1280) over the Maas, the Dinghuis, or former courthouse (c. 1475), and the town hall (1658-64). The cathedral, dedicated to St. Servatius, ...
- Saint Servatius, Church of
- (from the article "Quedlinburg") ...medieval churches survive, contributing to a thriving tourist industry. The city is dominated by the 16th-century castle (now a museum) on the site of the old fortress and by the ...
- Saint Severus, Church of
- (from the article "Erfurt") Erfurt is dominated by the cathedral and the Church of St. Severus, which stand side-by-side atop a hill called Domberg ("Cathedral Hill"). The cathedral (1154-1476) contains 15th-century glass and numerous ...
- Saint Sophia
- (from the article "painting, Western") Wall paintings were important during this period, but only one decoration by trained artists in a larger building is known, namely that in the Church of St. Sophia at Ohrid, ...
- Saint Sophia
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...in the Monastery of the Caves (1073-78). All of these churches were built in the Byzantine tradition, though certain influences from Bulgaria, Georgia, and Armenia can be discerned. The cathedral ...
- Saint Sophia, Cathedral of
- (from the article "Belarus") One of the oldest surviving monuments of architecture in the country is the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Polatsk, dating from the 11th century and built in the Eastern Orthodox ...
- Saint Sophia, Cathedral of
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...death of the city in the 16th century; it was there that the fundamental features of later Russian architecture were developed. The ecclesiastical architectural history of Novgorod began with the ...
- Saint Stephen's Basilica
- (from the article "Hild, Jozsef") ...Palace (1827; destroyed in World War II), the Nako Palace (1833), the Ullmann Palace, and the Wieser House (1833). It was in accordance with his designs that construction began on ...
- Saint Stephen's Cathedral
- cathedral in Vienna that was burned out in the course of the Battle of Vienna in April 1945 and was reconstructed by 1952. Saint Stephen's was established in 1147; only ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint Stephen's Crown
- greatly venerated crown of Hungary, the symbol of Hungarian nationhood, without which no sovereign was truly accepted by the Hungarian people. It is made from an 11th-century jeweled circlet of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint Stephen's Green
- (from the article "Dublin") The oldest and largest of the city's squares is St. Stephen's Green, recorded in 1224 as common grazing land but enclosed and bordered with houses in the 1660s. Most of ...
- Saint Stephen's, Walbrook
- (from the article "Western architecture") ...the Baroque spirit in his late works by unifying them with a refined compositional vigour. Sir Christopher Wren presented English Baroque in its characteristic restrained but intricate form in St. ...
- Saint Stephen, Chapel of
- (from the article "painting, Western") In England the decoration of the royal Chapel of St. Stephen's (c. 1360) was apparently, for the period, outstandingly Italianate. (Surviving fragments are in the British Museum, London.) Subsequently, however, ...
- Saint Swithin's Day
- (July 15), one of the several days from which, in folklore, the weather for a subsequent period is dictated. In popular belief, if it rains on St. Swithin's Day, it ...
- Saint Thomas
- city, seat of Elgin county, southeastern Ontario, Canada, on Kettle Creek, just north of Lake Erie. Founded in 1817 as Sterling, it was renamed after Colonel Thomas Talbot, who made ...
- Saint Thomas
- chief island of the U.S. Virgin Islands in the eastern Caribbean, situated 40 miles (64 km) east of Puerto Rico. With an area of 32 square miles (83 square km), ... [2 Related Articles]
- Saint Thomas, Hospital of
- (from the article "Rome") The Hospital of St. John was founded in the Middle Ages as a dependence of S. Giovanni in Laterano (St. John Lateran), just off the hill, and maintains its Romanesque ...
- Saint Trinian's
- (from the article "Searle, Ronald") British graphic satirist, best known for his cartoons of the girls at an imaginary school he called St. Trinian's.
- Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
- (Feb. 14, 1929), mass murder of a group of unarmed bootlegging gang members in Chicago. The bloody incident dramatized the intense rivalry for control of the illegal liquor traffic during ... [4 Related Articles]
- Saint Vincent
- island of the Windward group in the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean Sea, about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Saint Lucia and about 100 miles (160 km) west ...
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- island country lying within the Lesser Antilles, in the eastern Caribbean Sea. It consists of the island of Saint Vincent and the northern Grenadine Islands, which stretch southward toward Grenada. ... [20 Related Articles]
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, flag of
- vertically striped blue-yellow-green national flag with three green lozenges (diamonds) in the centre. The flag's width-to-length ratio is 2 to 3.
- Saint Vincent de Paul, Society of
- (from the article "Ozanam, Antoine Frederic") French historian, lawyer, and scholar who founded the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
- Saint Vincent, Cape
- cape, southwesternmost Portugal, forming with Sagres Point a promontory on the Atlantic Ocean. To the Greeks and Romans it was known, from the presence of a shrine there, as the ...
- Saint Vincent, Gulf
- triangular inlet of the Indian Ocean, on the southeast coast of South Australia, between Yorke Peninsula to the west and the mainland. About 90 mi (145 km) long and 45 ...
- Saint Vitus' Cathedral
- (from the article "Bohemian school") The major architectural monuments of the Bohemian school are Charles's palace (Karlstejn Castle) and the St. Vitus' Cathedral, both in Prague. The cathedral and parts of Karlstejn Castle were begun ...
- Saint Vladimir
- (from the article "Kiev") ...Khreshchatyk at right angles is the wide, poplar-lined Boulevard of Taras Shevchenko, on which stands the university with its eye-catching red-washed walls. There, too, is the cathedral of St. Volodymyr ...
- Saint, Eva Marie
- (from the article "1954: Best Supporting Actress") Other Nominees
- Saint, Lucien
- (from the article "Tunisia") ...Destour leader. Two years later the aged bey, Muhammad al-Nasir, requested that the program of the Destour be adopted or he would abdicate. In response, the resident general, Lucien Saint, ...
- Saint, the
- (from the article "Charteris, Leslie") author of highly popular mystery-adventure novels and creator of Simon Templar, better known as "the Saint" and sometimes called the "Robin Hood of modern crime." From 1928 some 50 novels ...
- Saint-Acheul
- locality near Amiens in the Somme River valley, Somme departement, Picardie region, northern France. Saint-Acheul is the type locality at which a number of distinctive early Paleolithic hand axes were ...
- Saint-Affrique
- town, Aveyron departement, Midi-Pyrenees region, southern France. The town is situated about 60 miles (96 km) northwest of Beziers on the southeastern coast and about 6 miles (10 km) from ...
- Saint-Amand-les-Eaux
- town and spa, Nord departement, Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, northern France, at the junction of the Elnon River with the canalized Scarpe River. It is situated 22 miles (35 km) southeast of ...
- Saint-Amand-les-Eaux ware
- tin-glazed earthenware and porcelain made in the French town of that name in the 18th and 19th centuries. The factory was begun in 1718 by Pierre-Joseph Fauquez of nearby Tournai ...
- Saint-Amand-Montrond
- town, Cher departement, Centre region, central France. The town, which is situated some 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Bourges, grew up around a monastery founded by St. Amand, a ...
- Saint-Amant, Marc-Antoine Girard, sieur de
- one of the most original and interesting of French early 17th-century poets and one of the first members of the French Academy.
- Saint-Andre Cathedral
- (from the article "Bordeaux") ...of Montesquieu and Michel de Montaigne (the latter's tomb is at the university, founded 1441). Bordeaux's ecclesiastical antiquities include two 15th-century bell towers: that of Pey-Berland, near Saint-Andre Cathedral, and ...
- Saint-Andre, Andre Jeanbon
- French Protestant clergyman who became a member of the Committee of Public Safety that ruled France during the period of the Jacobin dictatorship (1793-94).
- Saint-Andre, Jacques d'Albon, seigneur de
- (lord of) favourite of King Henry II of France, who made him successively member of the royal council, marshal of France, premier gentleman of the chamber, governor of Lyonnais, and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint-Andrew's-cross
- (Hypericum hypericoides), plant of the family Hypericaceae, native to southeastern North America and Central America, sometimes cultivated for its four-petaled yellow flowers. It reaches 75 cm (2.5 feet) and has ...
- Saint-Apollinaire, Cathedral of
- (from the article "Valence") ...region, southeastern France. Valence lies on the left bank of the Rhone River. Built on a succession of terraces bordering the Rhone, the town is dominated by the ancient Cathedral ...
- Saint-Arnaud, Armand-Jacques Leroy de
- army officer and later marshal of France who was minister of war under Napoleon III and commander in chief of the French forces in the Crimean War.
- Saint-Barthelemy
- island of the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean Sea. An overseas collectivity of France since 2007, it was formerly a commune and, together with Saint-Martin, an arrondissement of the ...
- Saint-Benezet Bridge
- (from the article "Avignon") Four arches of the famed Saint-Benezet bridge (of the song "Sur le pont d'Avignon") still reach out from the town, its Romanesque St. Nicholas Chapel still perched on the second ...
- Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire
- village, Loiret departement, Centre region, north-central France, on the right bank of the Loire River, 25 miles (40 km) east of Orleans by road. The splendid Romanesque basilica is the ...
- Saint-Brieuc
- town, capital of Cotes d'Armor departement, Brittany region, northwestern France. It is situated on a promontory between the ravines of the Gouet River and its tributary the Gouedic, near Saint-Brieuc ...
- Saint-Cesaire
- paleoanthropological site in southwestern France where in 1979 the remains of a young adult male Neanderthal were found buried in a small pit. The skeleton was recovered during archaeological salvage ...
- Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, Treaty of
- (from the article "Norman") ...a reputation as a great leader of Viking raiders in Scotland and Ireland, soon emerged as the outstanding personality among the new settlers. In 911 the Frankish king Charles III ...
- Saint-Cloud
- town, Hauts-de-Seine departement, Ile-de-France region, northern France. It is a western residential suburb of Paris, located on the left bank of the Seine River. ...
- Saint-Cloud porcelain
- soft-paste porcelain made in the town of Saint-Cloud, Fr., from the last quarter of the 17th century until 1766. Pierre Chicaneau began the manufacture, which passed by marriage to the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint-Cyr
- (from the article "education") ...nuns in Paris and then a governess at the court of Louis XIV before she was wedded to the king in 1684. From her royal vantage point, she took upon ...
- Saint-Cyr
- French national military academy at Coetquidan, founded in Fontainebleau in 1803 by Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1808 Napoleon moved it to the town of Saint-Cyr-l'Ecole near Versailles, on the site of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint-Denis
- city, Seine-Saint-Denis departement, Paris region, France. The city is a northern suburb of Paris and lies on the right bank of the Seine. Until the mid-19th century, when industries developed ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint-Denis
- town, capital of the French overseas departement of Reunion in the western Indian Ocean. The town lies in a basin at the mouth of the Saint-Denis River on the north ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint-Denis, abbey church of
- (from the article "Saint-Denis") ...The city is a northern suburb of Paris and lies on the right bank of the Seine. Until the mid-19th century, when industries developed there, it was only a small ...
- Saint-Denis, basilica of
- (from the article "Argenteuil") ...of the tragic Heloise-Abelard romance, became prioress of the convent about 1118, but she was expelled in 1129 and the convent was made into a monastery. Enshrined in the monastery's ...
- Saint-Denis, Battle of
- (from the article "France") ...and Charles IX at Meaux in September 1567 and to seek military aid from the Protestant Palatinate. In the following brief war, the Catholic constable Anne, duc de Montmorency, was ...
- Saint-Denis, Louis Juchereau de
- French-Canadian explorer and soldier, leader of a 1714 expedition from French-held Natchitoches, in the Louisiana Territory, to the Spanish town of San Juan Bautista (modern Villahermosa) on the Rio Grande.
- Saint-Denis, Michel
- French director, producer, teacher, and theatrical innovator who was influential in the development of the British theatre for 40 years. [3 Related Articles]
- Saint-Die
- town, Vosges departement, Lorraine region, northeastern France, on the Meurthe River, southeast of Nancy. A bishop's see, it grew up around the monastery of Saint-Deodatus, or Dieudonne (7th century), from ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint-Dizier
- town, Haute-Marne departement, Champagne-Ardenne region, northeastern France, on the Marne River and the Canal de la Marne a la Saone, northeast of Troyes. On the site of the Roman Desiderii ...
- Saint-Domingue
- (from the article "Haiti") The Treaty of Rijswijk (1697) formally ceded the western third of the island from Spain to France, which renamed it Saint-Domingue. The colony's population and economic output grew rapidly during ...
- Saint-Etienne
- city, capital of Loire departement, Rhone-Alpes region, on the northeast border of the Massif Central, east-central France. From its beginning as a small community in a coal basin, huddled around ... [1 Related Articles]
- Saint-Etienne
- (from the article "stained glass") ...Saint-Godard at Rouen, which is one of the most impressive examples of glass painting of the period. The works by the Le Prince family are equally impressive, particularly the Jesse ...
- Saint-Etienne
- (from the article "Bourges") The summit of the hill on which the city is built is crowned by the Gothic cathedral of Saint-Etienne, which dominates the city. Begun at the end of the 12th ...
- Saint-Etienne
- (from the article "Caen") The church of Saint-Etienne (the Abbaye-aux-Hommes; see photograph), and that of La Trinite (the Abbaye-aux-Dames), escaped war damage; both date from the 1060s and are fine specimens of Norman Romanesque. ...
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