Sancta
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Sancta may refer to :
- The Scala Sancta is a Christian monument in Rome, Italy.
- Sancta SusannaSancta SusannaSancta Susanna is an early opera by Paul Hindemith in one act, with a German libretto by August Stramm. Composed over a two week period in January/February 1921, its premiere was on 26 March 1922, at Opernhaus, Frankfurt....
is an early opera by Paul Hindemith in one act. - Sancta CivitasSancta CivitasSancta Civitas is an oratorio by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Written between 1923 and 1925, it received its first performance in Oxford in May 1926, during the General Strike. Although its title is in Latin, the libretto is entirely in English, based upon texts from Revelation, as well as Taverner's...
is an oratorio by Ralph Vaughan Williams. - Sancta Maria Abbey, NunrawSancta Maria Abbey, NunrawNunraw Abbey or Sancta Maria Abbey, Nunraw is a working Trappist monastery. It was the first Cistercian house to be founded in Scotland since the Reformation.Founded in 1946 by monks from Mount St...
is a working Trappist monastery. - Sancta Romana Ecclesia is name given to the College of CardinalsCollege of CardinalsThe College of Cardinals is the body of all cardinals of the Catholic Church.A function of the college is to advise the pope about church matters when he summons them to an ordinary consistory. It also convenes on the death or abdication of a pope as a papal conclave to elect a successor...
. - Sancta Sapientia is a name given to the Hagia SophiaHagia SophiaHagia Sophia is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, and now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey...
. - Alphonsus a Sancta MariaAlphonsus a Sancta MariaAlphonsus a Sancta Maria, or Alphonso de Cartagena , Spanish historian, was born at Cartagena, and succeeded his father, Paulus, as bishop of Burgos. In 1431 he was deputed by John II, king of Castile, to attend the council of Basel, in which he made himself conspicuous by his learning...
(1396 – July 12, 1456) was a Spanish historian. - Silvester Petra SanctaSilvester Petra SanctaSilvester Petra Sancta was an Italian Jesuit priest, and heraldist. His name is also spelt as Sylvester Petra Sancta, Petrasancta, in Italian Padre Silvestro da Pietrasanta. Pseudonym: Coelius Servilius...
(Rome 1590 – Rome, May 6, 1647) was an Italian Jesuit monk, and heraldist.