Duchesne, Saint Rose Philippine
(Encyclopedia) Duchesne, Saint Rose Philippine düshĕnˈ [key], 1769–1852, French educator in the United States, a Roman Catholic nun, b. Grenoble, France. She entered the order of the Visitation, but was forced...
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Saint-Germain-en-Laye
(Encyclopedia) Saint-Germain-en-Laye săN-zhĕrmăNˈ-äN-lā [key], town (1990 pop. 41,710), Yvelines dept., N central France, on the Seine River, a residential suburb W of Paris. It is the last station on the expr...
John Fisher, Saint
(Encyclopedia) John Fisher, Saint: see Fisher, John.
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Saint Helena Island
(Encyclopedia) Saint Helena Island: see Sea Islands.
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Saint Mary's Island
(Encyclopedia) Saint Mary's Island: see Banjul, Gambia.
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Saint Jean, Lac
(Encyclopedia) Saint Jean, Lac, Canada: see Saguenay, river.
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Saint John, Lake
(Encyclopedia) Saint John, Lake, Canada: see Saguenay, river.
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Thomas More, Saint
(Encyclopedia) Thomas More, Saint: see More, Sir Thomas.
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Saint Mark's Church
(Encyclopedia) Saint Mark's Church, Venice, named after the tutelary saint of Venice. The original Romanesque basilical church, built in the 9th cent. as a shrine for the saint's bones, was destroyed by fire in 967....
Rose of Lima, Saint
(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...
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