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  • 111Patron Saints — • Statistics on popular titular patrons of churches in Rome, Belgium, and English speaking countries. Short lists of some national patrons and patron saints of professional occupations Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Patron Saints      …

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  • 112Denys —     Denys the Carthusian     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Denys the Carthusian     (DENYS VAN LEEUWEN, also LEUW or LIEUWE).     Born in 1402 in that part of the Belgian province of Limburg which was formerly comprised in the county of Hesbaye; died …

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  • 113England (Before the Reformation) —     England (Before the Reformation)     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► England (Before the Reformation)     This term England is here restricted to one constituent, the largest and most populous, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.… …

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  • 114Frederic Baraga —     Frederic Baraga     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Frederic Baraga     First Bishop of Marquette, Michigan, U.S.A., b. 29 June, 1797, at Malavas, in the parish of Dobernice in the Austrian Dukedom of Carniola [present day Slovenia Ed.]; d. at… …

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  • 115Patrick Murray —     Patrick Murray     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Patrick Murray     Theologian, b. Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland, 18 November, 1811; d. 15 Nov., 1882, in Maynooth College. He received his early education in his native town of Clones, entered… …

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  • 116Saint Lawrence Justinian —     St. Lawrence Justinian     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Lawrence Justinian     Bishop and first Patriarch of Venice, b. in 1381, and d. 8 January, 1456. He was a descendant of the Giustiniani, a Venetian patrician family which numbered… …

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  • 117Sancho de Avila —     Sancho de Avila     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Sancho de Avila     Born at Avila of the Kings, in Old Castile, 1546, and named after the place of his birth; died at Plasencia, in the same province, 6 or 7 December, 1625. He was of a… …

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  • 118St. Dominic —     St. Dominic     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Dominic     Founder of the Order of Preachers, commonly known as the Dominican Order; born at Calaroga, in Old Castile, c. 1170; died 6 August, 1221. His parents, Felix Guzman and Joanna of Aza,… …

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  • 119St. Louis IX —     St. Louis IX     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Louis IX     King of France, son of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile, born at Poissy, 25 April, 1215; died near Tunis, 25 August, 1270.     He was eleven years of age when the death of Louis… …

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  • 120The Oxford Movement (1833-1845) —     The Oxford Movement (1833 1845)     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Oxford Movement (1833 1845)     The Oxford Movement may be looked upon in two distinct lights. The conception which lay at its base, according to the Royal Commission on… …

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