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  • ), also Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, or (from Latin) Beda (IPA: ... ), (ca. 672 or 673 – May 27, 735), was a Benedictine monk at the ...
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  • Canonization is the process of posthumously declaring someone to be ... The practice of Canonization is currently practiced by the Roman Catholic ...
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  • quot; in Japanese) (617 – 686), was one of the leading philosophers, writers ... With his life spanning the end of the Three Kingdoms period and the ...
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  • 1910–July 28, 1946) is a Catholic Saint, the second person of Indian origin ... upon her death, and often involved the children in the convent school ...
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  • Scholasticism, from the Latin word scholasticus ("that [which ... theology and from positive theology. The schoolmen themselves distinguished ...
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  • In the Roman Catholic Church, a Doctor of the Church (Latin doctor ... Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, and Pope Gregory I were the original Doctors ...
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  • He was born around 735 C.E. and became the student of Egbert at York ... He was made abbot of the monastery of Saint Martin of Tours in 796 ...
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  • Pope Saint Marcellinus was the bishop of Rome beginning c. 296 until ... for centuries his biography accepted the tradition that he indeed did ...
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  • , was a monk from Italy who called on the Catholic church to renounce ... his views and took refuge with Peter the Venerable, the abbot of Cluny ...
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  • Pope Saint Anicetus was bishop of Rome in the mid-second century. ... Anicetus was involved in upholding the Roman tradition of celebrating ...
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  • The Mogao Caves, or Mogao Grottoes ( 莫高窟|p=mò gāo kū ) (also known as the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas and Dunhuang Caves ...
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  • The Knights Hospitaller (also known as the Sovereign Military Hospitaller ... At times it competed in popularity with the Knights Templar, a more ...
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  • 492 - 496 C.E.) was an important pope of the late fifth century who strongly ... One of the more prolific writers among the early popes, many of Gelasius ...
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  • and martyr, who is said to have died during the Diocletian persecution in ... Though Sebastian's name is the subject of an elaborate etymology ...
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  • (May 18, 1920 – April 2, 2005), reigned as the two-hundred-and-sixty-fourth ... and he is often credited as one of the forces contributing to its ...
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  • – May 2, 373 C.E.) was a Christian bishop—the Patriarch of Alexandria—in ... For these contributions to the development of the Christian faith ...
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  • ) (Latin: Basilius), also called Saint Basil the Great (Greek: Άγιος Βασίλειος ... In addition to being recognized as one of the Cappadocian Fathers ...
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  • a sacred geometric device commonly used in the religious practice of Hinduism ... The mandala's symbolic nature can help one "to access progressively ...
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  • The Mohawk were one of the five core tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy ... The American Revolutionary War divided the Iroquois between Canada ...
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  • The Church Fathers or Fathers of the Church are the early and influential ... Catholic and Orthodox traditions regarding the Fathers of the Church ...
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