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(Encyclopedia) Gregory the Great, Saint: see Gregory I, Saint. ...

(Encyclopedia) Wiseman, Nicholas Patrick Stephen, 1802–65, English prelate, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, b. Seville, Spain, of Irish-English parentage. In 1836 he founded (with Daniel O'Connell) the Dubl...

(Encyclopedia) Peter Canisius, Saint kənĭshˈēəs [key], 1521–97, Dutch Jesuit, Doctor of the Church, b. Nijmegen. He spent his life traveling widely strengthening wavering Roman Catholics, preaching, and instr...

(Encyclopedia) Leo the Great, Saint: see Leo I, Saint. ...

(Encyclopedia) Frances Xavier Cabrini, Saint: see Cabrini, Saint Frances Xavier. ...

(Encyclopedia) Francis of Sales, Saint: see Francis de Sales, Saint. ...

(Encyclopedia) Saint Christopher and Nevis: see Saint Kitts and Nevis. ...

(Encyclopedia) Saint-Hilaire, Étienne Geoffroy: see Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Étienne. ...

(Encyclopedia) Bruno the Great, Saint: see Bruno, Saint (d. 965). ...

(Encyclopedia) Lawrence or Laurence, Saint, d. 258, Roman deacon and martyr. According to legend he was roasted to death on a gridiron. The Latin Fathers praise him in their writings for his role in the conversion o...