Apollo Apollo Apollo (Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek: , "Apollōn" ( ) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion and Greek and Roman mythology. The national divinity of the Greeks, Apollo has been variously recognized as a god of music, truth and prophecy, healing, the sun and light, plague, poetry, and more. Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis. Seen as the most beautiful god and the ideal of the "kouros" (a beardless, athletic youth), Apollo is considered to be
Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, Manchester at the Holy Name under Fr Raymond Matus was relocated to St Chad's, Cheetham Hill where Bishop Terence Brain had granted them permission to establish a Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri. Manchester popular music band The Smiths referred to the Holy Name church in one of the lyrics in Vicar in a Tutu, ""I was minding my business lifting some lead off the roof of The Holy Name church"". The funeral of locally born actress Pat Phoenix, best known for her role of Elsie Tanner in "Coronation Street", was held at the church following her death in