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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 ...
She was the daughter of infante John, fourth son of Frederick III of Aragon and Eleanor of Anjou. Eleanor of Aragon's mother Cesarea Lancia was eldest daughter of Peter, Count of Caltanissetta. She died in Giuliana, Sicily and the bust from her funerary monument is now in the Galleria regionale di Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo.
Peter III of Aragon, Manfred's son in law, of the House of Barcelona, conquered the island of Sicily from Charles I in 1282 and had himself crowned King of Sicily. Thereafter the old Kingdom of Sicily was centred on the mainland, with capital at Naples , and although informally called Kingdom of Naples it was still known formally as "Kingdom of ...
Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague–Stricken of Palermo, painting of Anthony van Dyck (1624), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Pantaenus (died 200 AD), theologian, saint; Agatha of Catania (231–251 AD), martyr and saint; Lucy of Syracuse (283–304 AD), martyr and saint; Saint Vitus (c. 290–c. 303 AD), martyr and saint
J. Robert Oppenheimer's wife, Katherine, daughter Kit and son Peter. (Corbis via Getty Images) Peter Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer's first child, Peter Oppenheimer, was born in 1941 while he was ...
Eleanor married in Valencia on 27 August 1349 to Peter IV of Aragon, [a] on the condition that he renounce all rights to any Sicilian Crown. He was twice-widowed, had two surviving daughters: Constance and Joanna but no surviving sons. Eleanor became a powerful influence at the Aragonese court, replacing Bernardo de Cabrera as Peter's chief ...
First a little girl goes missing, then her doll, in “The Lost Daughter,” a daring psychological drama in which what should have been an idyllic summer vacation on the Greek island of Spetses ...
Olivia Colman and Maggie Gyllenhaal are hanging at the posh Ham Yard Hotel in London’s ... Adds Gyllenhaal, 44, a mother of two daughters with actor Peter Sarsgaard: “Leda threw a doll out the ...