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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
José de Santa Ana Ávila y Urquídez (1770–1806), was born in Pueblo De Baca, in the Viceroyalty of New Spain (nowadays Mexico), one of several sons of Cornelio Ávila. José de Santa Ana married María Josefa Osuna y Alvarado in 1792. He was also a Spanish soldier at Santa Barbara 1801–1806.
[3] Santo's legacy within luchador films lived on through his son, El Hijo del Santo ("The Son of the Saint"), who portrayed him in the 1993 biopic Santo: la leyenda del enmascarado de plata ("Santo: The Legend of the Man in the Silver Mask"), as well as in the 2001 film Infraterrestre ("Infraterrestrial"), a revival of the Santo film series. [5]
El Hijo del Santo's son made his debut as "Santo Jr." in 2016. Another grandson (not a son of El Hijo del Santo) originally wrestled as "El Nieto del Santo" ("The Grandson of Santo"), but now works under the name Axxel. Santo is said to have popularized professional wrestling in Mexico just as Rikidōzan did in Japan. [3]
San Onofre State Beach (San Onofre, Spanish for "St. Onuphrius") is a 3,000-acre (1,214 ha) state park in San Diego County, California. [1] The beach is 3 miles (5 km) south of San Clemente on Interstate 5 at Basilone Road. The state park is leased to the state of California by the United States Marine Corps.
Toribio Romo González, known as Saint Toribio Romo (Spanish: santo Toribio Romo, Spanish pronunciation: [ˌsanto toˈɾiβjo ˈromo]; April 16, 1900 – February 25, 1928) was a Mexican Catholic priest and martyr who was killed during the anti-clerical persecutions of the Cristero War.
For the earlier portion of its narrative, the Historia demonstrably made use of three texts which have survived into the modern era. [58] The Historia uses the Anonymous Life of St Cuthbert (written between 699 and 705), Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert (written c. 721), and Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (written 731). [58]