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The Sermon of Saint Stephen is an oil-on-canvas painting by Italian artist Vittore Carpaccio, done in 1514. The painting is from the Venetian Renaissance and depicts the first Christian martyr, St. Stephen, giving a sermon. The painting involves its audience as active witnesses to St. Stephen's actions and influence.
St Stephen's House, Oxford – a permanent private hall of the University of Oxford and Anglican theological college; St Stephen's Church, Bristol – a city church built outside the walls c. 1250, rebuilt c. 1430 – c. 1490; St Stephen's, Sneinton, Nottingham – has strong links to William Booth and The Salvation Army.
A Solemn Mass was held at St. Matthew's to celebrate McNally's installation and creation of the parish. [4] St. Stephen's became the ninth Roman Catholic parish established in the city. [5] The original red brick church and rectory were designed by Adolf Cluss, one of the most important architects working in the District of Columbia in the mid ...
Saint Stephen is also the patron saint of Republika Srpska, one of two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. St. Stephen's Day, 9 January, is celebrated as the Day of the Republika Srpska or Dan Republike, though mainly as an anniversary of the 1992 events rather than as a religious feast.
Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church that was founded in 1824 by Rev. Nicholas Hamner Cobbs (later bishop of Alabama). The Church sits on a historical plot in Forest , Bedford County, Virginia which was originally owned by former president Thomas Jefferson, and donated to the church by Elizabeth Moseley Radford. [ 1 ]
The cycle occupies the two lateral walls and the end wall of the Cappella Maggiore, covering a surface of 400 m 2 (4,300 sq ft) in total. [2] At the left (looking from the nave towards the high altar) are the Stories of Saint Stephen, the titular saint of the church and patron saint of Prato; at the right are the Stories of Saint John the Baptist, the protector of nearby Florence.
St Stephen's Chapel, sometimes called the Royal Chapel of St Stephen, was a chapel completed around 1297 in the old Palace of Westminster. After the death of Henry VIII until 1834, the building served as the chamber of the House of Commons of England and that of Great Britain .
[5] The most notable Abyssinian monk at St. Stephens was Abba Täsfa Ṣeyon, also known as Pietro Abissino, a monk of Shewan origin who had served in the royal court of Dawit II. "The peak of Santo Stefano's intellectual influence was the mid-16th century, for it was in this period that Täsfa Ṣǝyon, who'd arrived in Rome by 1536 and died ...