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Olivia of Palermo (Italian: Oliva dì Palermo, Sicilian: Uliva di Palermu), Palermo, 448 – Tunis, 10 June 463, [3] [4] while according to another tradition she is supposed to have lived in the late 9th century AD in the Muslim Emirate of Sicily [5] [6] is a Christian virgin-martyr who was venerated as a local patron saint of Palermo, Sicily, since the Middle Ages, as well as in the Sicilian ...
Saint Oliva (or Olivia) (†138) was martyred under Hadrian; her relics are venerated at Saint Afra's Church, Brescia. Her feast day is 5 March. External links
In J. P. Donleavy's The Ginger Man, Sebastian Dangerfield repeatedly calls on the name of "the Blessed Oliver" and, towards the end of the book, receives a wooden carving of the saint's head. In David Caffrey 's 2001 film On the Nose , Nana, played by Francis Burke refers to an Aboriginal person's head in a large specimen jar as "Oliver Plunkett".
The church has two portals: the main one overlooks piazza Ciullo, while the other one, with the statue of Saint Olivia on it, faces Corso 6 Aprile. Initially, there was a main portal dating back to 1572, [ 1 ] but after the acquisition of some funds in connection with the Great Jubilee , both doors were replaced by two golden bronze ones ...
Patron saint Notes Asia: Francis Xavier [1] John the Evangelist is the patron saint of Asia Minor, but not the entire continent. [2] [3] Africa: Moses the Black Our Lady of Africa: Cyprian is patron saint of Africa, the Roman province (Tunisia), not the entire continent. [4] The Americas: The Virgin Mary (as Our Lady of Guadalupe) [5] [6]
John of Kronstadt, patron saint of St Petersburg, mystic and religious writer; John of Moscow, fool-for-Christ and wonderworker [citation needed] of Moscow during the reign of Boris Godunov; John of Novgorod, highly venerated 12th-century Archbishop of Novgorod; John of Pskov, a hermit living in Pskov at the turn of the 16th to 17th century
My great friend Olivia Newton John has passed away. She was the perfect Lady, gorgeous, with great poise and with a certain Aussie sophistication. Her spandex trousers in Grease were my ...
Therese wrote several prayers expressing her draw to Christ's Holy Face in his passion, reflecting her desire to be like Jesus and suffer for the sake of love. She wrote a Canticle to the Holy Face in August 1895 (2 years before her death) saying: "Jesus, Your ineffable image is the star that guides my steps.