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Aire-sur-l'Adour
Aire-sur-l'Adour (; or simply , before 1962: ''Aire'') '' Journal officiel de la République française'' n° 0085, 8 April 1962, p. 3677. is a commune in the Landes department, |
Arènes Maurice-Lauche
The ''Arènes Maurice-Lauche'' () are a bullring in the town of Aire-sur-l'Adour, Landes (department), Landes in the Southern France, south of France. The facility hosts both the local pursuit of ''Course landaise'' and Spanish-style bullfighting. Beginnings Even before there was a bullring in Aire-sur-l'Adour, the town had bull spectacles. They began in the 16th century, when bull runs took place on workdays outside the Aire Cathedral, cathedral; the Catholic Church, Church, of course, forbade such things on Sundays and holidays. In 1647, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aire and Dax#1500 to 1800, Bishop of Aire then forbade the bull runs on any day. For a while, there was a dearth of bull-running activity, but the runs came back in earnest later when Kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV backed the prelates' initiatives (which were obviously at odds with the bishop's), as did the Intendants of Guyenne. Before the French Revolution broke out, a compromise was reached in Aire-sur-l'Adou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iván Fandiño
Iván Fandiño Barros (; 29 September 1980 – 17 June 2017) was a Spanish bullfighter. He died when a bull named Provechito gored him during a bullfight at Arènes Maurice-Lauche, the bullring in Aire-sur-l'Adour in the Southern France, south of France, only 343 days after fellow Spanish bullfighter Víctor Barrio had met the same fate. Early life Fandiño was born in Orduña, Biscay on 29 September 1980 to parents whose roots lay in A Coruña. Although there was no bullfighting background in his family, he became interested in bullfighting at the age of 14 after standing out as a Basque pelota, pelota player in his youth. Fandiño first donned the Traje de luces, suit of lights in Laudio/Llodio, Laudio, Álava on 16 August 1999, in an appearance at which he alternated with José Manuel Sánchez, fighting young bulls supplied by the Miguel Zaballos ranch. After Fandiño's short time at the Vitoria and Valencia bullfighting schools in Bilbao – both went out of business ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Quiteria
Quiteria was a second-century virgin martyr about whom little is certain except her name, the day and the place of her death, and her cult. She is listed under the date of 22 May in the ''Roman Martyrology''. She is one of the patron saints of Toledo, Spain.Giles, Ryan Dennis. ''The Laughter of the Saints: Parodies of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain'', University of Toronto Press, 2009, p. 54 et seq. Accounts of her life are "absolutely legendary". Name ''Quiteria'' may be derived from ''Kythere'' (or ''Kyteria'', ''Kuteria' ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocese Of Aire And Dax
The Diocese of Aire and Dax (Latin'':'' ''Dioecesis Adurensis et Aquae Augustae''; French: ''Diocèse d'Aire et Dax'') is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France. It comprises the ''département'' of Landes, in the ''région'' of Gascony in Aquitaine. It was a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Auch under the Ancien Régime, but was not re-established until 1822, when it was again made a suffragan of the re-established Archdiocese of Auch, and was assigned the territory of the former Diocese of Aire and Diocese of Acqs (Dax). It is now a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Bordeaux. It has been known since 1857 as the Diocese of Aire and Dax. It is a co-cathedral diocese, with cathedras in the Cathedral St-Jean-Baptiste d' Aire and in Nôtre Dame de Dax. On April 6, 2017, the resignation letter of recent Bishop Herve Gaschignard was officially accepted by Pope Francis following alle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adour
The Adour (; ; ) is a river in southwestern France. It rises in High- Bigorre ( Pyrenees), in the commune of Aspin-Aure, and flows into the Atlantic Ocean ( Bay of Biscay) near Bayonne. It is long, of which the uppermost ca. is known as the ''Adour de Payolle''. At its final stretch, i.e. on its way through Bayonne and a short extent upstream, the river draws the border between the Northern Basque Country and Landes regions. Places along the river '' Départements'' and towns along the river include: * Hautes-Pyrénées: Bagnères-de-Bigorre, Tarbes, Maubourguet * Gers: Riscle * Landes: Aire-sur-l'Adour, Dax, Tarnos * Pyrénées-Atlantiques: Bayonne Bayonne () is a city in southwestern France near the France–Spain border, Spanish border. It is a communes of France, commune and one of two subprefectures in France, subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques departments of France, departm ... Tributaries The main tributaries of the Adour are, from sourc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aire Cathedral
Aire Cathedral () is a Roman Catholic church (building), church dedicated to Saint John the Baptist in the town of Aire-sur-l'Adour in the Landes (department), Landes département of France. It was the seat of the Bishops of Aire until the diocese was abolished in 1801 and again from 1822 when the diocese was restored; in 1857 it was renamed the Diocese of Aire and Dax. In 1933 the bishop moved to Dax, Landes, Dax, making Dax Cathedral his seat, when the cathedral at Aire became a co-cathedral. It was listed as a Monument historique, national monument in 1906. History The cathedral is situated in the lower town, where the bishops used to live. In origin a structure of the 11th and 12th centuries, it was subject to much alteration between the 14th and 17th centuries and its present appearance shows a variety of styles. The great Rotunda (architecture), rotunda on the chevet is especially noticeable. From the 12th century there remain three bays and an apse. The severe 13th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierrette Le Pen
Pierrette Le Pen (' Lalanne; born 10 September 1935) is a French model who was married to Jean-Marie Le Pen from 1960 to 1987, and the mother of Marie-Caroline Le Pen, Yann Le Pen and Marine Le Pen. She is also the grandmother of Marion Maréchal, the former Executive Vice President of Reconquête. Biography Pierrette was the daughter of a wine seller from the Landes department in southwestern France. Pierrette's first marriage was to Claude Giraud in 1956, which lasted until 1960. After divorcing Giraud, she worked briefly as a model. Pierrette Lalanne met Jean-Marie Le Pen in 1958, during a gala evening. She married him on June 29, 1960, at the town hall in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. They have three daughters together, Marie-Caroline Le Pen, Yann Le Pen, and Marine Le Pen. Initially, Pierrette Le Pen accompanied Jean-Marie in his political activities. However, in 1972, she left him due to his extreme views.Christophe Dubois and Christophe Deloire, ''Sexus Politicus' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alaric II
Alaric II (, , 'ruler of all'; ; – August 507) was the King of the Visigoths from 484 until 507. He succeeded his father Euric as King of the Visigoths in Toulouse on 28 December 484; he was the great-grandson of the more famous Alaric I, who sacked Rome in 410. He established his capital at Aire-sur-l'Adour (''Vicus Julii'') in Aquitaine. His dominions included not only the majority of Hispania (excluding its northwestern corner) but also Gallia Aquitania and the greater part of an as-yet undivided Gallia Narbonensis. Reign Herwig Wolfram opens his chapter on the eighth Visigothic king, "Alaric's reign gets no full treatment in the sources, and the little they do contain is overshadowed by his death in the Battle of Vouillé and the downfall of the Toulosan kingdom."Wolfram, ''History of the Goths'', p. 191 One example is Isidore of Seville's account of Alaric's reign: consisting of a single paragraph, it is primarily about Alaric's death in that battle. The earliest-documen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bullfighter
A bullfighter or matador () is a performer in the activity of bullfighting. ''Torero'' () or ''toureiro'' (), both from Latin ''taurarius'', are the Spanish and Portuguese words for bullfighter, and describe all the performers in the activity of bullfighting as practised in Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Peru, France, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and other countries influenced by Portuguese and Spanish culture. The main performer and leader of the entourage in a bullfight, and who finally kills the bull, is addressed as ''maestro'' (master), or with the formal title ''matador de toros'' (killer of bulls). The other bullfighters in the entourage are called ''subalternos'' and their suits are embroidered in silver as opposed to the matador's gold. They include the '' picadores'', '' rejoneadores'', and ''banderilleros''. Present since the sport's earliest history, the number of women in bullfighting has steadily increased since the late-19 century, both on foot and on horseback ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Way Of St
Way or WAY may refer to: Paths * a road, route, trail, path or pathway, including long-distance paths * a straight rail or track on a machine tool (such as that on the bed of a lathe) on which part of the machine slides * Ways, large slipway in shipbuilding, the ramps down which a ship is pushed in order to be launched * Way (vessel), a ship's speed or momentum Religion * "The Way", New Testament term for Christianity * Way of the Cross, Christian devotion that commemorates the events of Good Friday following 14 stations, taking the form of a spiritual pilgrimage through contemplation and meditation of the Passion of Christ * Tao (Chinese: "The Way" 道), a philosophical concept (cf. Taoism) * ''Way'', plural '' Wayob'', spirit companions appearing in mythology and folklore of Maya peoples of the Yucatán Peninsula Places * Lake Way, a dry lake in Western Australia * Way, Mississippi * Way, St Giles in the Wood Way is a historic estate in the parish of St Giles in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilgrimage
A pilgrimage is a travel, journey to a holy place, which can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life. A pilgrim (from the Latin ''peregrinus'') is a traveler (literally one who has come from afar) who is on a journey to a holy place. Typically, this is a physical journey (often on foot) to some place of special significance to the adherent of a particular religious belief system. Background Pilgrimages frequently involve a journey or search of morality, moral or spirituality, spiritual significance. Typically, it is a journey to a shrine or other location of importance to a person's beliefs and faith, although sometimes it can be a metaphorical journey into someone's own beliefs. Many religions attach spiritual importance to particular places: the place of birth or death of founders or saints, or to the place of their "calling" or spiritual awakening, or of their connection (visual or verbal) with the divine, to locations where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decapitation
Decapitation is the total separation of the head from the body. Such an injury is invariably fatal to humans and all vertebrate animals, since it deprives the brain of oxygenated blood by way of severing through the jugular vein and common carotid artery, while all other organs are deprived of the autonomic nervous system, involuntary functions that are needed for the body to function. The term beheading refers to the act of deliberately decapitating a person, either as a means of murder or as an capital punishment, execution; it may be performed with an axe, sword, or knife, or by mechanical means such as a guillotine. An executioner who carries out executions by beheading is sometimes called a headsman. Accidental decapitation can be the result of an explosion, a car or industrial accident, improperly administered execution by hanging or other violent injury. The national laws of Saudi Arabia and Yemen permit beheading. Under Sharia in Nigeria, Sharia, which exclusively appl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
