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St. Maruthas

St. Maruthas, also Marutha or Mar Maruta, was a fifth-century Syriac bishop of Maypherqat in Mesopotamia, a city he made famous as Martyropolis, who served as physician-diplomat between Rome and Persia.

St. Mary-le-Bow

St. Mary-le-Bow is a Church of England parish church on Cheapside in the City of London, founded around 1080, whose Bow Bells define a true Cockney.

St. Mary's Church, Tallinn

St. Mary's Church in Tallinn, locally called Toomkirik or the Dome Church, is a Lutheran cathedral on Toompea Hill and the oldest church in mainland Estonia, consecrated in 1240.

St. Marys, GA Micro Area

St. Marys, GA Micro Area (CBSA 41220) is an OMB-designated micropolitan statistical area covering Camden County, Georgia, population 55,105 (2022), part of the Jacksonville-St. Marys-Palatka combined statistical area.

St. Marys, PA Micro Area

St. Marys, PA Micro Area (code 41260) is an OMB-designated micropolitan statistical area covering Elk County, Pennsylvania, principal city St. Marys; about 30,506 residents in 2024, median age 48.4, manufacturing-specialized rural economy.

St. Matthew Island

Saint Matthew Island is an uninhabited volcanic island in the north-central Bering Sea, part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge with Hall and Pinnacle islands. Known for McKay's bunting, million-plus seabirds, the 1944 reindeer introduction that peaked near 6,000 before collapsing, and a peat-core record of Bering Sea sea ice.

St. Michael's Buzzers

St. Michael's Buzzers is a Toronto junior ice hockey team founded in 1932 and affiliated with St. Michael's College School, playing in the Ontario Junior Hockey League.

St. Michael's Cemetery (Havana)

St. Michael's Cemetery is a parish burial ground in Havana, Cuba, one of the small parish cemeteries that operated alongside Havana's large general cemeteries through the nineteenth century.

St. Moritz

St. Moritz (Sankt Moritz, San Murezzan), Upper Engadine resort in Grisons, Switzerland, at 1,856 m; world's oldest ski resort (1864), host of the 1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics, five Alpine Ski World Championships, and frozen-lake events like White Turf.

St. Nicholas' Church, Berlin

St. Nicholas' Church (German: Nikolaikirche) in Berlin-Mitte, begun around 1230, is one of the city's oldest churches, destroyed in World War II and rebuilt by 1987 as a Stadtmuseum museum.

St. Nilus

St. Nilus (Нил Черноризец) was an early Christian ascetic writer of the 4th and 5th centuries, traditionally a monk of Sinai and disciple of John Chrysostom.

St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College, founded 1898 in De Pere, Wisconsin by Abbot Bernard Pennings, is the world's only Norbertine Catholic liberal arts college, with about 1,800 students, 80+ programs, and 2025 retrenchment cuts.

St. Odilo

St. Odilo (c. 962–1048) was the fifth Abbot of Cluny, whose 55-year abbacy grew the Cluniac houses from 37 to 65 and instituted All Souls' Day on 2 November.

St. Olaf College

St. Olaf College, private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, founded 1874 by Norwegian Lutheran immigrants, ELCA-affiliated, 4-1-4 calendar, about 3,000 students, president Susan Rundell Singer, noted for study abroad and music tradition.

St. Paul and The Broken Bones

St. Paul and The Broken Bones, a Birmingham, Alabama soul band fronted by Paul Janeway, broke through with 2014's Half the City and has expanded from retro-soul into funk, disco, and psychedelic R&B across six albums.

St. Paul Curling Club

The St. Paul Curling Club is a curling club at 470 Selby Avenue in Saint Paul, Minnesota, described as the largest in the United States, with over 1,200 members.

St. Paul Saints

St. Paul Saints, Triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins since 2021 in the International League; founded 1993 as an independent Northern League team, later American Association, playing at CHS Field (opened 2015) in St. Paul, Minnesota.

St. Paul's Chapel

St. Paul's Chapel is a Georgian-style Episcopal chapel at Broadway and Fulton Street in Lower Manhattan, built in 1766 and the oldest surviving church building in Manhattan.

St. Paula

Paula of Rome (347–404) was a Roman aristocratic widow who renounced her fortune, followed Jerome to Bethlehem in 386, and financed monasteries and a pilgrim hospice there.

St. Peter's Baldachin

St. Peter's Baldachin (Baldacchino di San Pietro) is a 29-meter-tall bronze canopy that Gian Lorenzo Bernini built over the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica between 1624 and 1633.

St. Peter's Basilica

St. Peter's Basilica (Basilica di San Pietro) is the papal basilica in Vatican City, Rome, built between 1506 and 1626 over the tomb of Saint Peter.

St. Peter's Square

St. Peter's Square (Piazza San Pietro), Bernini's 1656–1667 elliptical plaza before St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City: 284-column colonnade, 140 statues, Egyptian obelisk, papal audiences and ceremonies.

St. Petersburg International Economic Forum

The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF, ПМЭФ) is an annual Russian business and economics conference in St. Petersburg, initiated in 1996 to attract foreign investment and nicknamed "Putin's Davos."

St. Petersburg paradox

St. Petersburg paradox: coin-flip gamble paying 2^n dollars, introduced by Nicolaus Bernoulli in 1713, solved via utility by Daniel Bernoulli (1738); infinite expected value, small real bids.

St. Petersburg Street Circuit

St. Petersburg Street Circuit: temporary 1.8-mile, 14-turn street-airport course in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida, using Albert Whitted Airport runway; hosts the Firestone Grand Prix, the INDYCAR season opener.

St. Petersburg, Florida

St. Petersburg, Florida, the Sunshine City, is Pinellas County's largest city on the Pinellas peninsula between Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Founded in 1888 by Peter Demens, population about 264,000, home of the Tampa Bay Rays at repaired Tropicana Field.

St. Pierre Cathedral

St. Pierre Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Pierre) names several Saint Peter cathedrals: Geneva's 1160–1230 Protestant cathedral, Beauvais's unfinished 48.50 m-vault Gothic giant, Lisieux's first Norman Gothic cathedral, and Poitiers's Angevin Gothic cathedral.

St. Poppo

St. Poppo (978–1048) was a Flemish-born Benedictine abbot who governed Stavelot-Malmedy from 1020 until his death and led monastic reform in Lotharingia, influencing about 27 Benedictine institutions.

St. Raphael Church II (Banganarti)

St. Raphael Church II (the Raphaelion or Upper Church) at Banganarti, Sudan, is a church built circa 1070 AD near Old Dongola in Makuria, a major Archangel Raphael pilgrimage and healing center with royal murals and nearly a thousand Greek and Old Nubian pilgrim inscriptions.

St. Scholastica's College, Manila

St. Scholastica's College, Manila (SSC Manila) is a Catholic Benedictine school founded December 3, 1906 by Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing in Tondo, now in Malate; known for music education, women's studies, and alumnae including Corazon Aquino.