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His name appears very variously as Onuphrius, Onouphrius, Onofrius and in different languages as Onofre (Portuguese, Spanish), Onofrei (Romanian), Onofrio (Italian), etc. In Arabic , the saint was known as Abū Nufir ( Arabic : ابو نفر ) or as Nofer ( Arabic : نوفر ), which, besides being a variant of the name Onuphrius, also means ...
San Onofre, Sucre, a municipality in the Sucre Department of Colombia; San Onofre State Beach, located in San Diego County, California; San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), a nuclear power plant adjacent to the state beach; Caldas da Rainha — Santo Onofre e Serra do Bouro, one of the twelve civil parishes of Caldas da Rainha in Portugal
The Story of the Man Who Turned into a Dog (Historia del hombre que se convirtió en perro) is a short play written by Osvaldo Dragún as part of his Historias para ser contadas (Stories to be Told), a series of short plays. [1] It is the third short play in the series. [2]
Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores was a 133,440-acre (540.0 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day northwestern San Diego County, California, given by Governor Juan Alvarado in 1841 to Andrés Pico and Pío Pico. [2] The grant was located along the Pacific coast, and encompassed present-day San Onofre State Beach and Camp Pendleton.
Betancourt's tomb is in the San Francisco Church in Antigua Guatemala. The Cave of Santo Hermano Pedro is located in the south of the island of Tenerife, in a desert on the outskirts of the city of El Médano. It is a very popular pilgrimage site, where the faithful present votive offerings to Betancourt.
Esquipulas holds its patronal festival on January 15, when the largest number of pilgrims come from Guatemala and neighboring Central American countries. [2] The shrine of El Santuario de Chimayó in Chimayo, New Mexico also honors the image. A pending application for Canonical coronation of the image was submitted to the Vatican.
According to the mythology of Malverde's life, he held a long-standing rivalry with Francisco Cañedo , the governor of Sinaloa, who he thought mistreated the poor. [4] One time, Francisco derisively offered Malverde a pardon if he could steal his sword (or, in some versions, his daughter). He is supposed to have died in Sinaloa on 3 May 1909. [9]
Bertrand was born in Valencia to Juan Bertrand and Juana Angela Exarch. Through his father he was related to St. Vincent Ferrer, a thaumaturgus of the Dominican Order. At an early age he conceived the idea of becoming a Dominican Friar, and despite the efforts of his father to dissuade him, was clothed with the Dominican habit in the Convent of St. Dominic, Valencia, on 26 August 1544.