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(Encyclopedia) Cyril of Jersualem, Saint: see Cyril, Saint (St. Cyril of Jerusalem). ...

(Encyclopedia) Cyril of Alexandria, Saint: see Cyril, Saint (St. Cyril of Alexandria). ...

(Encyclopedia) Francis of Assisi, Saint: see Francis, Saint. ...

(Encyclopedia) John of Nepomuk, Saint nāˈpōmo͝ok [key], d. 1393, patron saint of Bohemia, a martyr. He is also called John Nepomucen. He was vicar general of Bohemia under King Wenceslaus IV (later Holy Roman Em...

(Encyclopedia) Thomas of Canterbury, Saint: see Thomas à Becket, Saint. ...

(Encyclopedia) Gregory of Nazianzus, Saint: see Gregory Nazianzen, Saint. ...

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

(Encyclopedia) Frank, Jacob, c.1726–1791, Polish Jewish sectarian and adventurer, b. Podolia as Jacob Ben Judah Leib. He founded the Frankists, a heretical Jewish sect that was an anti-Talmudic outgrowth of the my...

(Encyclopedia) Hilary of Poitiers, Saint poitērzˈ, poiˈtyā [key], c.315–367?, bishop of Poitiers from c.350, Doctor of the Church. A convert from paganism, he distinguished himself as a supporter of Athanasius...

(Encyclopedia) Rose of Lima, Saint, 1586–1617, Peruvian Dominican tertiary and mystic, the first canonized saint of the New World, patron of South America and the Philippine Islands. Despite her family's attempt t...