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Halo – a live St Bernard dog, mascot of the Carroll College Fighting Saints; Handsome Dan – a live Bulldog, mascot of the Yale Bulldogs; the first mascot adopted by a university in the USA [12] Harry the Hawk – mascot of the Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks; Harry the Husky – costumed mascot of the Washington Huskies
The Chapel of St Francis is an addition to the ancient rotunda, and contains a sculpture of St Francis by Giacomo Antonio Fancelli. [1] The German painter Johann Friedrich Overbeck, founder of the Nazarene art movement, is buried here. The left side altar is dedicated to Robert of Molesme; right to Bernard of Clairvaux.
Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist. (Latin: Bernardus Claraevallensis; 1090 – 20 August 1153), venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, [a] and a major leader in the reform of the Benedictines through the nascent Cistercian Order.
Dec. 8—St. John's Lutheran Community on Friday announced the addition of an eagle camera for its widely followed eagle's nest at its Fountain Lake campus. The organization installed a live ...
The Great St Bernard Tunnel (French: Tunnel du Grand Saint-Bernard, Italian: Traforo del Gran San Bernardo, German: Grosser-Sankt-Bernhard-Tunnel) is a road tunnel complementing the Great St Bernard Pass, linking Martigny (in the Swiss canton of Valais) with Saint-Rhémy-en-Bosses (in the Aosta Valley, in north western Italy).
The Great St Bernard Pass is located near the western end of the Valais Alps, the next pass to the west, Col Ferret, marking the transition with the Mont Blanc massif.In that area, between Mont Dolent and Mont Vélan, the main crest of the Alps barely reaches 3,000 metres, unlike in the much higher section of the Valais Alps east of Mont Vélan and Grand Combin.
The Little St Bernard Pass was first crossed by the Tour de France in 1949 and has been featured three times since. In 2007, Montée d'Hauteville was climbed on stage 8 of the Tour de France. The pass was featured in the 2009 Tour de France Stage 16 on 21 July from Martigny (Switzerland) to Bourg-Saint-Maurice, 160 km, which also features the ...
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