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St John Zachary. St John Zachary[1] (meaning "St John, son of Zechariah ", i.e. John the Baptist) [2] was a church, first mentioned in official records in 1181, [3] within the City of London, England, on the north side of Gresham Street, Aldersgate. [4] Its vicar from 25 May 1424 [5] to an unknown date was William Byngham, the founder of ...
The parish was united with the parish of St John Zachary by Act of Parliament in 1670 as St John's was not rebuilt after the Great Fire. The church was extensively restored in the 18th and 19th centuries, but was largely destroyed by Second World War bombing by German bombers during the London Blitz during the night of 29–30 December 1940.
Zechariah (Hebrew: זְכַרְיָה Zəḵaryā, "remember Yah "; Greek: Ζαχαρίας; Zacharias in KJV; Zachary in the Douay–Rheims Bible; Zakariyya (Arabic: زكريا, romanized: Zakariyyā) in Islamic tradition) is a Jewish figure in the New Testament and the Quran, [2] and venerated in Christianity and Islam. [3] In the Bible, he ...
The parish became depopulated after the Black Death and was united with St Giles in 1365. The church became dilapidated, with its ruins still noted on a map in 1635. [122] St John Zachary Before 1207 c. 1446 Parish church destroyed to make way for King's College Chapel. It was rebuilt nearby in 1458, but was last recorded in 1488, by when its ...
At the church of St. John in the Mountains - the birthplace of St. John. The Benedictus (also Song of Zechariah or Canticle of Zachary), given in Gospel of Luke 1:68–79, is one of the three canticles in the first two chapters of this Gospel, the other two being the "Magnificat" and the "Nunc dimittis".
San Zaccaria, Venice. The Church of San Zaccaria is a 15th-century former monastic church in central Venice, Italy. It is a large edifice, located in the Campo San Zaccaria, just off the waterfront to the southeast of Piazza San Marco and St Mark's Basilica. It is dedicated to St. Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist.
The priest and later bishop Nicholas Close (or Cloos) was recorded as the "surveyor", having been the curate of St John Zachary, a church demolished to make way for the Chapel. [7] [8] [9] The first stone of the Chapel was laid, by Henry himself, on the Feast of St James the Apostle, 25 July 1446, the College having been begun in 1441.
Benjamin Whichcote. Benjamin Whichcote (March 1609 – May 1683) was an English Establishment and Puritan divine, Provost of King's College, Cambridge and leader of the Cambridge Platonists. He held that man is the "child of reason" and so not completely depraved by nature, as Puritans held. He also argued for religious toleration.