Colón
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Colón, Argentina, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Uruguay, Venezuela Panama: founded in 1850 as Aspinwall after William H. Aspinwall (1807–85), one of the American sponsors of the Panama Railway. The city was renamed in 1890 with the Spanish version of the name Columbus
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Today... is the feast day of St Bridget, patron saint of Sweden.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/8/1995; 700+ words
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RICH RELIGIOUS ROOTS WIDE-RANGING HOUSES OF WORSHIP REFLECT VALLEY DIVERSITY.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 3/24/2005; 700+ words
; ...traditions or religious heritage with them.'' St. Bridget of Sweden is among those homes welcoming a diverse congregation...said. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Saint Bridget of Sweden Catholic Church members Bill and Nancy Mouzis and...
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BACK TO CHURCH EASTER BRINGS CHRISTIANS INTO THE FOLD.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 4/23/2000; 700+ words
; ...when, Christians believe, Christ rose from the dead and ascended into heaven. The Rev. Ray Morales, of Saint Bridget of Sweden Catholic Church in Van Nuys, said the church's usual congregation of 1,400 families can grow by several hundred...
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Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Catholic Insight; 7/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...some details stick in the memory: Saint Bridget of Sweden was canonized three times--in...visited by Satan disguised as Pope Saint Pius X. Collins's deadpan irony...teaching found in the letters of Saint Paul, the earliest writings of...
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Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...society. Margery, the protagonist of this fiction, is a literary character based on depictions of female saints like Bridget of Sweden or Elisabeth of Hungary, and bearing no more necessary relation to Kempe the author than do Chaucer or Langland...
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St Birgitta of Sweden
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Birgitta of Sweden. By Bridget Morris. [Studies in...00.) St Birgitta of Sweden is long overdue-not...bibliographic position it fills. Bridget Morris's volume is...fourteenth-century saint since the 1954 translation...scholarship. In St Birgitta of Sweden, Moms has chosen to...
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Stories of the Saints.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Children's Bookwatch; 9/1/2007; 506 words
; Stories of the Saints Joyce Denham, author...paracletepress.com Stories of the Saints is a children's picturebook...the stories of fourteen saints who lived long ago...Elizabeth of Portugal, and Bridget of Sweden. The stylized color illustrations...
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O cohors militiae. O successores. O vos imitatores. O dulcis electe. O victoriosissimi. O cruor sanguinis. O vis aeternitatis. O splendidissima gemma/Hodie aperuit. O victoriosissimi. O virga ac diadema. Caritas abundant. Ave Maria. O frondens virga. O viridissima virga; Annuntietur. Latuit. O virgo. Benedictus sis tu. Iam laetaris. Christe Patris excelsi
Magazine article from: Fanfare; 11/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...juxtaposition of two female saints who both came from noble...of power. While St. Bridget is more famous as a saint, since she founded...the patron saint of Sweden, St. Hildegard has...existence of Hildegard, Bridget married, had eight...noted above. Some of Bridget's music, ...
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Indulgences and saintly devotionalisms in the middle ages
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Catherine of Siena, Bridget of Sweden, Peter of Luxembourg...Indulgences and the saints met in several different...movements. Third, the saints eagerly sought indulgences...promote the cult of the saints, the oldest expression...for the visitation of a saint's shrine; so the ...
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Discernment in Catherine of Siena. (St. Catherine)
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 3/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...the Church, Paul VI made this point: "What strikes us most about the Saint is her infused wisdom. That is to say, lucid, profound and inebriating...Bingen in the 12th century, Mechthilde of Magdeburg in the 13th, and Bridget of Sweden
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Saint Bridget of Sweden
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Saint Bridget of Sweden c.1300-1373, Swedish nun, one of the great saints of Scandinavia. She was a noblewoman...read during the Middle Ages. St. Bridget is patron of Sweden. She is also called Birgitta...
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Bridget of Sweden
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Bridget of Sweden Saint Bridget of Sweden (c. 1303–1373), also known as Birgitta of Sweden, is one of the few Roman Catholic saints of Scandinavia. Sometimes referred to as the "Mystic of the...
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Saint Birgitta
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Saint Birgitta see Bridget of Sweden, Saint .
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Arboga
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...auml;stmanland co., S Sweden, on the Arboga River, near...several parliaments, including Sweden's first (1435), and numerous church assemblies. St. Bridget was proclaimed patron saint of Sweden there in 1396. The city has...
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Bridget
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Bridget female forename St Bridget of Ireland (d. c. 525), Irish...venerated in Ireland as a virgin saint and noted in miracle stories for...her feast day is 1 February. St Bridget of Sweden ( c. 1303–73), Swedish...
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