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Saint Bernard (other)
Saint Bernard refers primarily to Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153), a Christian saint, mystic, and reformer of the Cistercian order. Another prominent meaning is St. Bernard (dog), a breed of dog. St. Bernard, St Bernard or San Bernard may also refer to: People *Bernard degli Uberti (d. 1133), Catholic saint, Italian abbot, bishop, papal legate, and cardinal * Bernard of Corleone (1605–1667), Sicilian friar, Franciscan Blessed *Bernard of Menthon (c. 1020–1081 or 1086), Catholic saint, Frankish founder of the hostel at Great St Bernard Pass, and namesake of the famous dog breed *Bernard of Thiron (1046–1117), Catholic saint, French founder of the Tironensian Order *Bernardo Tolomei (1272–1348), Catholic saint, Italian theologian and founder of the Olivetans *Bernard of Vienne (778–842), Catholic saint, French bishop of Vienne 810–842. Places Brazil * São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, municipality in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo * São Bernardo, Maranhã ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Of Clairvaux
Bernard of Clairvaux, O. Cist. ( la, Bernardus Claraevallensis; 109020 August 1153), venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templars, and a major leader in the reformation of the Benedictine Order through the nascent Cistercian Order. He was sent to found Clairvaux Abbey at an isolated clearing in a glen known as the ''Val d'Absinthe'', about southeast of Bar-sur-Aube. In the year 1128, Bernard attended the Council of Troyes, at which he traced the outlines of the Rule of the Knights Templar, which soon became an ideal of Christian nobility. On the death of Pope Honorius II in 1130, a schism arose in the church. Bernard was a major proponent of Pope Innocent II, arguing effectively for his legitimacy over the Antipope Anacletus II. In 1139, Bernard attended the Second Council of the Lateran and criticized Peter Abelard vocally. Bernard advocated crusades in general and convinced many to participate in the unsuccessful Second Crusade, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Bernard, Southern Leyte
Saint Bernard, officially the Municipality of Saint Bernard ( Kabalian: ''Lungsod san Saint Bernard''; ceb, Lungsod sa Saint Bernard; tl, Bayan ng Saint Bernard), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 28,414 people. History This town was formerly the largest barrio of San Juan, then known as "Himatagon". On December 9, 1954, President Ramon Magsaysay issued Executive Order No. 84, converting the barrio as a municipality of Saint Bernard. It was through the efforts of Leyte Governor Bernardo Torres that the conversion was made possible in response to the lingering clamour of the inhabitants for an independent and separate municipality from San Juan. As a gratitude to Governor Bernardo Torres, the people unanimously renamed Himatagon as Saint Bernard, with the honorific title "Saint" being a translation of the vernacular honorific "San" which is given to persons of virtue, wisdom or genero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Bernardino (other)
San Bernardino is a large city in the Inland Empire Metropolitan Area of Southern California. San Bernardino may also refer to: Churches *San Bernardino alle Ossa, a church in Milan, Italy * San Bernardino (Verona), a church in Verona, Italy * San Bernardino, Rimini, a church in Rimini, Italy * San Bernardino, Urbino, a church in Urbino, Italy * San Bernardino Realino, a church in Carpi, Italy *Basilica of San Bernardino, a church in L'Aquila, Italy *San Bernardino in Panisperna, a church in Rome, Italy * Oratory of San Bernardino, Siena * San Bernardino da Siena, Carpi *San Bernardino de Siena Church, Xochimilco, Mexico * San Bernardino, Asciano Landforms *San Bernardino (torrent), a torrent that flows through the Italian province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola *San Bernardino Pass, a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps *San Bernardino River, in Sonora, Mexico *San Bernardino Strait, a strait in the Philippines *San Bernardino Valley, California *San Bernardino Valley (Arizona) *Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard (other)
Bernhard is a given name and family name. Bernhard may also refer to: Places * Sankt Bernhard-Frauenhofen, Austria; a town * Sankt Bernhard, Thuringia, Germany; a municipality in Thuringia * Sà nkt Bernhà rd, Alsace, France Other * Bernhard-Theater Zürich, a theater in Zürich, Switzerland * Operation Bernhard, a German World War II plot to destabilise the British economy by flooding the country with forged money * Regiment Stoottroepen Prins Bernhard, an infantry regiment of the Royal Netherlands Army See also * Saint Bernard (other) * Barnard (other) * Bernard (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard (other)
Bernard is a given name and a family name. Bernard may also refer to: Given or monastic name Surname Places * Bernard, Iowa, United States * Bernard Terminal, a bus terminal in the York Region Transit/VIVA system in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada * Great St Bernard Pass, the third highest road pass in Switzerland * Bernard (crater), a crater on Mars * St Bernard Pass (other) * San Bernardino Pass, between Thusis and Bellinzona in Switzerland Other uses * "Bernard", a song by Kazumi Watanabe from the album '' Kilowatt'' * ''Bernard'' (TV series), a short animated TV series * Bernard Brewery, a Czech family brewery * St. Bernard (dog), a Swiss dog breed See also * Barnard (other) * Bernat (other) * Bernhard (other) * San Bernardino (other) * São Bernardo (other) * Saint Bernard (other) * Société des Avions Bernard ''Société des Avions Bernard'' (french: Bernard Aircraft Company) was a French a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnard (other)
Barnard is a given name and family name. Barnard may also refer to: Places Australia * Barnard Island Group National Park, a national park in Queensland Canada * Mount Barnard (Alsek Ranges), aka Boundary Peak 160, a mountain on the British Columbia-Alaska border * Mount Barnard (Canada), a mountain on the British Columbia-Alberta border/Continental Divide in the Canadian Rockies * Barnard Island, an island in the Estevan Group on the North Coast of British Columbia United Kingdom * Barnards Green, a popular district centre in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, England United States * Barnard, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Barnard, Kansas, a city * Barnard, Michigan, an unincorporated community * Barnard, Missouri, a city * Barnard, South Dakota, an unincorporated community * Barnard, Vermont, a town * Mount Barnard (Alsek Ranges), aka Boundary Peak 160, a mountain on the Alaska-British Columbia border * Mount Barnard (California), a mountain in California Astronomy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texan Schooner San Bernard
The Texan schooner ''San Bernard'' was a two-masted schooner of the Second Texas Navy from 1839-1840. She was the sister ship of the ''San Jacinto'' and the ''San Antonio''. In 1840, ''San Antonio'' was part of the Texas Navy flotilla led by Commodore Edwin Ward Moore which was dispatched to assist Yucatecan rebels that had taken up arms against Mexico. Returning to the Yucatan in 1841, ''San Bernard'' assisted in the capture of three Mexican prizes. Upon return to Galveston, ''San Bernard'' was driven ashore and was not repaired. When Texas joined the United States in 1846, ''San Bernard'' was transferred to the United States Navy and then sold for $150. Background of the Texas Navy The Texas Navy was officially formed in January 1836, with the purchase of four schooners: ''Invincible'', ''Brutus'', ''Independence'', and ''Liberty''. These ships, under the command of Commodore Charles Hawkins, helped Texas win independence by preventing a Mexican blockade of the Texas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunnes Stores
Dunnes Stores is an Irish multinational retail chain that primarily sells food, clothes and household wares. In addition to its main customer base in Ireland, the chain also has operations in Spain, and formerly in England and Scotland. The format of most of the chain's stores on the island of Ireland involves a grocery supermarket operating alongside a clothing/textiles store, although some stores contain only textiles, and some contain only a supermarket. The grocery side of the business does not operate outside of Ireland, save for a limited grocery range in the Spanish stores. The larger stores usually contain a café branded as either Café Sol, Dunnes Stores Café or Baxter & Greene Market Café. Dunnes Stores' original own brand of groceries was sold under the St Bernard brand for many years, becoming an Irish household name, but was rebranded as "My Family Favourites" in 2013. The main domestic competitors in the supermarket business are Tesco, SuperValu, Lidl and Ald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge
The San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife conservation area along the coast of Texas (USA), south of the towns of Sweeny and Brazoria, Texas. It encloses a bay behind a barrier island at the Gulf of Mexico. The refuge is located in southern Brazoria and eastern Matagorda counties. San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1969 and provides quality habitat for wintering migratory waterfowl and other bird life. Viewing the rippling marsh A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p Marshes can often be found at ...es and ponds of the refuge gives an image of Texas as it was before settlement. Three national wildlife refuges on the Texas coast - Brazoria, San Bernard and Big Boggy - form a vital complex of coastal wetlands harboring more than 300 bird species. Notes References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Bernard River
The San Bernard River is a river in Texas. Course San Bernard River flows from a spring near New Ulm, TexasTexas Highways http://texashighways.com/travel/item/716-now-open-san-bernard-river to its mouth on the Gulf of Mexico, some to the southeast of the source. It passes through portions of Austin, Brazoria, Colorado, Fort Bend, Matagorda and Wharton counties. It passes alongside the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge, which shelters one of the last populations of the critically endangered Attwater's prairie-chicken, a ground-dwelling grouse of the coastal prairie ecosystem. The San Bernard River is one of a small number of rivers in Texas which empties directly into the Gulf. Its mouth was impeded in 2005 causing it to drain into the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, but was later corrected. Shortly after being opened back up, the entrance silted in again, and remains so at this time. Watershed The San Bernard drains approximately 1,850 square miles (4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Bernard, Nebraska
Saint Bernard is an unincorporated community in Platte County, Nebraska Nebraska () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Kansas to the south; Colorado to the southwe ..., United States. History Saint Bernard was laid out in 1878 on behalf of Bernard Schroeder. It was originally built up chiefly by Germans. A post office was established at Saint Bernard in 1879, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1906. References Unincorporated communities in Platte County, Nebraska Unincorporated communities in Nebraska {{PlatteCountyNE-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Bernard, Louisiana
Saint Bernard ( /ˈseɪnt bÉ™rˈnÉ‘rd/; Spanish: ''San Bernardo'' ˆsãm ˈbɛɾ.ˈnaɾ.ðo is an unincorporated community in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, United States. The community is located on Louisiana State Highway 300, east of the Mississippi River and southeast of Chalmette. Saint Bernard is home to four sites on the National Register of Historic Places: the Dr. Louis A. Ducros House, the Kenilworth Plantation House, Magnolia Mound ''Magnolia'' is a large genus of about 210 to 340The number of species in the genus ''Magnolia'' depends on the taxonomic view that one takes up. Recent molecular and morphological research shows that former genera ''Talauma'', ''Dugandiodendro ..., and the Sebastopol Plantation House. References Unincorporated communities in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana Unincorporated communities in Louisiana Unincorporated communities in New Orleans metropolitan area {{Louisiana-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
