Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] the baptist " in BNC.

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1 The Church of S. John the Baptist belonged to the monastery of Constantine Lipos .
2 The dome mosaic here shows the Baptism of Christ by S. John the Baptist ; the background is gold and Christ is half immersed in water which , in the mosaic medium , has an unusual visual effect .
3 A few miles outside Moscow on a ridge of hills sloping steeply down to the river Moskva below is the Church of the Decapitation of S. John the Baptist at Dyakovo ( 245 ) , which is only about a mile away across the trees and woods from the unusual Church of the Ascension at Kolomenskoe ( Chapter 5 , Fig. 560 ) .
4 Church of Saint John the Baptist , Avon Dassett , Warwickshire .
5 There were once three forts protecting Machico Bay , but only two now remain : the Fort of Saint John the Baptist , near the port ; and the Fort of Amparo which is small and triangular and dates from 1706 .
6 On the left are the Church of Saint John the Baptist and the former Jesuit College ( the Colégio ) .
7 Parishioners of Saint John the Baptist are so divided on the issue that the dispute is having to be resolved at a church court .
8 The interior of the church — reached by going through an ornate entrance archway that seems to be competing with the presbytery doorway for the eye of the visitor — has some good frescoes , particularly the Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John the Baptist by Giovan Battista Crespi , and a canvas study of the Nativity by Marco d'Oggiono .
9 The Chapel of St John the Baptist ( 14 ) or Chapel of the Arnošts was founded by Archbishop Arnošt of Pardubice .
10 The painting on the altar is the Death of St Joseph by Kracker , with a St John the Baptist and a St John the Evangelist sculpted by Platzer .
11 A statue of St John the Baptist , patron saint of the Knights of Malta , stands in the centre .
12 CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST , AVON DASSETT , WARWICKSHIRE
13 AT THE END of this pretty Warwickshire village , in a steeply sloping ancient graveyard , stands the Church of St John the Baptist .
14 St John the Baptist had to be preserved at all costs .
15 This the Commissioners accepted , and St John the Baptist remains part of the village scene at Avon Dassett .
16 Technically , the inquiry is non-statutory and therefore the Church Commissioners are not bound by its recommendations , but the likelihood is that they will abide by them , as in the case of the village church of St John the Baptist in Avon Dassett .
17 The Roman Catholic church of 1777 ( now removed to the Ulster Folk Museum ) was dedicated to St John the Baptist , as in the modern church which replaced it nearby exactly 200 years later .
18 I have dedicated him to the blessed St John the Baptist and had him circumcised . ’
19 Two local village churches have been the recipients of the Group 's generosity : in 1958 the Church of St. James , Thrapston , received the pews which had previously been installed in the Chelveston base chapel and the tower of the Church of St John the Baptist in nearby Caldecott-cum-Chelveston was restored with the help of the 305th .
20 The parish church is dedicated to St John the Baptist , whose feast is the 24th June , and it was decided to hold the event on the nearest Saturday .
21 In order to expiate his sins and make sure of his place in Heaven , in 1556 he founded the Hospital of St John the Baptist , an almshouse for the ‘ support and relief of poor and indigent people ’ .
22 In addition , the schoolmaster was obliged to say Mass each Sunday and holy day , and at least twice a week , at the altar of St John the Baptist in the parish church .
23 The election of the two wardens takes place every two years , on or near the Feast of the Beheading of St John the Baptist in August , in the old school room .
24 The latter was recognised when the former religious hospital became the parish church of St John the Baptist in the fourteenth century .
25 Despite the circumstances of living , the photographs presented showed how the Festival of St John the Baptist was celebrated with many attractive decorations .
26 The funeral service today at the church of St John the Baptist on the edge of the Lonsdale estate is just a week before Louis was due to celebrate his first birthday .
27 Thus a recent pamphlet by Father J. M. Charles-Roux , published by the SKCM , states that ‘ The destiny of Charles I discloses a singular closeness to that of Moses , David , St John the Baptist or even of our Lord Himself . ’
28 She was present at the birth of the Blessed Virgin , who was then given over to her care for twelve years , and at the Visitation and the birth of St John the Baptist and even at the birth of the Saviour , when she was allowed to provide bedding for the Virgin and swathing-clothes for the Child .
29 Until the end of April Margot Gordon and Marcello Aldega will be showing a number of pictures from their 1992 catalogue , including : Fra Bartolommeo 's ‘ Holy Family with the infant St John the Baptist ’ dated by Chris Fisher to around 1515–16 ; a ‘ Nativity with Saints ’ by Penni , attributed by Nicholas Turner ; a late ‘ Male Profile ’ by Parmigianino , possibly a self-portrait ; a ‘ Putto ’ by Annibale Carracci , attributed by Oberhuber and relating to the upper part of the S. Gregorio altarpiece , Bologna ; two sheets by Simone Cantarini , ‘ Jove and Ganymede ’ and a ‘ Male figure ’ .
30 In the front , or south , gallery , Rodin 's popular marble sculpture , ‘ The Kiss ’ , is retrieved from storage for the first time in four years and shown among nine bronze statues or studies loaned by the Victoria and Albert Museum , including casts of ‘ The Age of Bronze ’ and ‘ St John the Baptist ’ .
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