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  • church that traditionally contained the seat of a bishop. The great ... a visual Axis Mundi for connecting with the Divine. Furthermore, they ...
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  • American sculptor. She was a master of naturalistic animal sculpture ... Huntington is recognized as one of America's finest animaliers ...
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  • name=Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg| native_name=Albert-Ludwigs ... Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg (German Albert-Ludwigs-Universität ...
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  • Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 - August 21, 1153) was a French abbot ... Devoted to the veneration of the Virgin Mary, Bernard is credited ...
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  • also an important courtier and politician at the court of Louis XIV. Bossuet was a staunch advocate of the theory of political absolutism; ...
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  • The term monastery (from Greek: μοναστήριον (monastērion ... governed by community rules that stipulate the gender of the inhabitants ...
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  • Malta, officially Republic of Malta, is a small and densely populated ... a long and turbulent history. Situated in the middle of the Mediterranean ...
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  • A sauna session is usually a social affair in which the participants ... The word sauna is also used metaphorically to describe an unusually ...
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  • came to public notice when he vindicated the defeat and murder of Charles ... Kitchener was born in Ballylongford, County Kerry, in Ireland, son ...
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  • writer who is best known for his development of Christian realism. As he served ... #039;s theological ethics acknowledges the reality of human sinfulness ...
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  • October 21, 1969), also known as "King of the Beatniks" and "Father ... Early on in his college days, Kerouac embraced a bohemian lifestyle ...
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  • The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican (popularly known as Vatican ... The far-reaching reforms enacted by the Council impacted virtually ...
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  • Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (also Thomas of Aquin, or Aquino; c. 1225 ... Saint Thomas Aquinas is held in the Roman Catholic Church to be the ...
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  • a rigid adherence to what it conceives of as the fundamental principles ... Historically, the term "fundamentalism" was first used in ...
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  • [[Image:Hussein_of_Jordan_1997.jpg|thumb|right|300 px|King Hussein ... and Princess Zein al-Sharaf bint Jamil, of the royal Hashemite family ...
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  • A Benedictine is an adherent of the teachings of Saint Benedict of ... Beyond its religious influences, the Rule of St Benedict has been ...
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  • Pope St. Gregory I or Gregory the Great (c. 540 – March 12, 604 ... A senator's son and himself the governor of Rome at 30, Gregory ...
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  • The Navajo (also Navaho) people of the southwestern United States ... The Navajo resemble Apache in many ways, although contact with Pueblo ...
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  • August 12, 1762 – June 26, 1830) was king of the United Kingdom of Great ... often interfering in politics, especially in the matter of Catholic emancipation ...
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  • Jews have lived in Germany for over 1700 years, through both periods ... Following the victimization of what was probably the most assimilated ...
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