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Aquila, husband of Priscilla, was originally from Pontus [12] Acts 18:2 and also was a Jewish Christian. According to church tradition, Aquila did not dwell long in Rome: the Apostle Paul is said to have made him a bishop in Asia Minor. The Apostolic Constitutions identify Aquila, along with Nicetas, as the first bishops of Asia Minor (7.46).
The Catholic Church has been present in what is now Mexico since the earliest years of the sixteenth century. As early as 1517, the expedition of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba brought Catholicism to the Yucatan, where the first diocese in continental North America would be erected in 1518. Mexico's first saint was canonized in 1862.
American Saints: Five Centuries of Heroic Sanctity on the American Continents. Alba House. ISBN 0-8189-0900-5. Habig, Marion A. (1974). Saints of the Americas. Our Sunday Visitor. ISBN 0-87973-880-4. Holbock, Ferdinard (2000). New Saints and Blesseds of the Catholic Church: Blesseds and Saints Canonized by Pope John Paul II During the Years ...
This is an incomplete list of humans and angels whom the Catholic Church has canonized as saints.According to Catholic theology, all saints enjoy the beatific vision.Many of the saints listed here are to be found in the General Roman Calendar, while others may also be found in the Roman Martyrology; [1] still others are particular to local places and their recognition does not extend to the ...
Miguel de Añon was born in Añón de Moncayo in the 1540s and entered the Franciscans around 1570. His ordination date in unknown and he was sent to the colony of Puerto Rico (and later to Florida) on July 14, 1595, with Francisco de Verascola. His arrival to St. Augustine was delayed until September 23 due to a tropical storm.
Aquila (Hebrew: עֲקִילַס ʿăqīlas, fl. 130 CE) of Sinope (modern-day Sinop, Turkey; Latin: Aquila Ponticus) was a translator of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, a proselyte, [clarification needed] and disciple of Rabbi Akiva.
Almost all of St. Augustine's Spanish settlers left Florida during the period that British ruled East Florida, with many of them moving to Cuba. More than 3,000 Floridanos left Florida for Havana, Cuba between 1763 and early 1764. [5] Spanish Floridians in west Florida mostly fled to Veracruz, Mexico, with about 620 sailing from Pensacola.
Aquila Emil (died 2011), Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer; Aquila Berlas Kiani (1921–2012), Pakistani scholar; Frank Aquila, a Manitoba judge; Frank J. Aquila (born 1957), American lawyer; Samuel J. Aquila (born 1950), Roman Catholic bishop