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Pio, Padre

(Encyclopedia)Pio, Padre: see Pio of Pietrelcina, Saint. ...

Gotthard Tunnel

(Encyclopedia)Gotthard Tunnel: see Saint Gotthard, mountain group. ...

Winfrid

(Encyclopedia)Winfrid: see Boniface, Saint, c.675–754? ...

Cyril, Saint (St. Cyril of Alexandria)

(Encyclopedia)Cyril, Saint (Saint Cyril of Alexandria) sĭrˈəl [key], d. a.d. 444, patriarch of Alexandria (412–44), Doctor of the Church, known for his animosity toward heretics and heathens. He drove the Jews...

Saint Mark's Church

(Encyclopedia)Saint Mark's Church, Venice, named after the tutelary saint of Venice. The original Romanesque basilical church, built in the 9th cent. as a shrine for the saint's bones, was destroyed by fire in 967....

Bonaventure, Saint

(Encyclopedia)Bonaventure or Bonaventura, Saint bŏnˌəvĕnˈchər, bōˌnävānto͞oˈrä [key], 1221–74, Italian scholastic theologian, cardinal, Doctor of the Church, called the Seraphic Doctor, b. near Viter...

Miquelon

(Encyclopedia)Miquelon, French island: see Saint Pierre and Miquelon. ...
 

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