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Saint Austell

(Encyclopedia) Saint Austell sŭnt ôˈstəl; [key], town (1991 pop. 36,639), Cornwall, SW England, at the mouth of the Fowey River on St. Austell Bay. China clay (discovered there c.1755) is produced and exported, ...

Saint Martin's

(Encyclopedia) Saint Martin's, England: see Scilly Islands. ...

Saint-Nicolas

(Encyclopedia) Saint-Nicolas: see Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. ...

Saint Stephens

(Encyclopedia) Saint Stephens: see Gaines, George Strother. ...

Saint-Trond

(Encyclopedia) Saint-Trond: see Sint-Truiden, Belgium. ...

Methodius, Saint

(Encyclopedia) Methodius, Saint: see Cyril and Methodius, Saints. ...

Braille, Louis

(Encyclopedia) Braille, Louis brāl, Fr. lwē brīˈyə [key], 1809?–1852, French inventor of the Braille system of printing and writing for the blind. Having become blind from an accident at the age of 3, he was ...

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...

Matilda, Saint

(Encyclopedia) Matilda, Saint: see Henry I (Henry the Fowler). ...

Kunigunde, Saint

(Encyclopedia) Kunigunde, Saint: see Henry II, Holy Roman emperor. ...
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