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In Irish mythology, Cian or Cían (Irish pronunciation:), nicknamed Scal Balb, was the son of Dian Cecht, the physician of the Tuatha Dé Danann, and best known as the father of Lugh Lamhfada. Cían's brothers were Cu, Cethen, and Miach .
Together the Ratisbonne brothers established the Congregation of the Fathers of Our Lady of Sion in 1852. [ 1 ] In 1855 Alphonse moved to the Holy Land , where, in 1858, he established the Convent of the Ecce homo on the site of a ruined church of that name on the famed Via Dolorosa for the Sisters of the congregation.
According to manuscripts extant in the library at Cambridge, Cianán built here a church of stone, on that account called Damliag, corrupted into Duleek. [2] It was the site of the first stone church in Ireland. [3] He died on 24 November, in 489. [1] Modern research indicates he may have been the origin behind the tribal name of Ciannachta. It ...
The Tanakh reference to Har Tzion (Mount Tzion) that identifies its location is derived from the Psalm 48 composed by the sons of Korah, i.e. Levites, as "the northern side of the city of the great king", which Radak interprets as the City of David "from the City of David, which is Zion (1 Kings 8:1–2; 2 Chron. 5:2)".
After the 2017 merger Sion had an area of 34.86 km 2 (13.46 sq mi). [14] Before the merger Sion had an area (as of the September 2004 survey) of 29.69 square kilometers (11.46 sq mi). Of this area, about 38.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 15.5% is forested.
Her father, Muyang'a (d. before 1852 [2]), served as an official in Guangxi Province and held the title of a third class cheng'en duke. Muyang'a's primary consort was the granddaughter of Qingheng (慶恆; d. 1779), a great-grandson of Nurhaci, [3] but it was Lady Jiang (姜氏), a concubine of Muyang'a, who was Xiaozhenxian's birth mother. [4]
Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable: 19 survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior over the remaining 12 years of his life—effects sufficiently ...
Zion (1903), Ephraim Moses Lilien. Zion (Hebrew: צִיּוֹן, romanized: Ṣīyyōn; [a] Biblical Greek: Σιών) is a placename in the Tanakh, often used as a synonym for Jerusalem [3] [4] as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole.