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(Encyclopedia) Saint James's Palace, in Westminster, London, England, on St. James's Street and fronting on Pall Mall. Henry VIII built the palace and established the park around it. It was the London royal residenc...

(Encyclopedia) Saint John's College, at Annapolis, Md., and Santa Fe, N.Mex.; coeducational; founded 1696 as King William's School, chartered 1784, opened 1786 as St. John's College. The Santa Fe campus was opened i...

(Encyclopedia) Saint Mary's College, at Notre Dame, Ind., near South Bend; Roman Catholic; for women; est. 1844 as St. Mary's Academy, chartered 1850 at Bertrand, Mich.; moved and chartered 1855. The school shares c...

(Encyclopedia) Patrimony of Saint Peter: see Papal States. ...

(Encyclopedia) Saint-Jean d'Acre: see Akko, Israel. ...

(Encyclopedia) Teresa of Calcutta, Saint: see Teresa, Mother. ...

(Encyclopedia) Francis, Saint, or Saint Francis of Assisi əsēˈzē [key], 1182?–1226, founder of the Franciscans, one of the greatest Christian saints, b. Assisi, Umbria, Italy. Two years before his death (122...

(Encyclopedia) Saint-Vallier, Jean Baptiste de la Croix zhäN bätēstˈ də lä krwä săN-välyāˈ [key], 1653–1727, Roman Catholic bishop of Quebec, b. France. He succeeded François Xavier de Laval in 1688 af...

(Encyclopedia) Léger, Alexis Saint-Legér: see Perse, St.-John. ...

(Encyclopedia) Saint-Cyran, Abbé de: see Duvergier de Hauranne, Jean. ...