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  • 101Blessed Justin de Jacobis —     Blessed Justin de Jacobis     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Blessed Justin de Jacobis     Vicar Apostolic of Abyssinia and titular Bishop of Nilopolis, h. at San Fele, Province of Potenza, Italy, 9 October, 1800 d. 31 July, 1860, in the plain of… …

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  • 102Blessed Margaret Pole —     Blessed Margaret Pole     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Blessed Margaret Pole     Countess of Salisbury, martyr; b. at Castle Farley, near Bath, 14 August, 1473; martyred at East Smithfield Green, 28 May, 1541. She was the daughter of George… …

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  • 103Blessed Margaret of Hungary —     Bl. Margaret of Hungary     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Bl. Margaret of Hungary     Daughter of King Bela I of Hungary and his wife Marie Laskaris, born 1242; died 18 Jan., 1271. According to a vow which her parents made when Hungary was… …

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  • 104Blessed Margaret of Lorraine —     Blessed Margaret of Lorraine     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Blessed Margaret of Lorraine     Duchess d Alencon, religious of the order of Poor Clares, born in 1463 at the castle of Vaudémont (Lorraine); died at Argentan (Brittany) 2 November,… …

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  • 105Blessed Margaret of Savoy —     Blessed Margaret of Savoy     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Blessed Margaret of Savoy     Marchioness of Montferrat, born at Pignerol in 1382; died at Alba, 23 November, 1464. She was the only daughter of Louis of Savoy, Prince of Achaia, and of… …

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  • 106Blessed Meinwerk —     Blessed Meinwerk     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Blessed Meinwerk     Tenth Bishop of Paderborn, d. 1036: Meinwerk (Meginwerk) was born of the noble family of the Immedinger and related to the royal house of Saxony. His father was Imad (Immeth) …

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  • 107Blessed Nicholas of Flue —     Blessed Nicholas of Flüe     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Blessed Nicholas of Flüe     (DE RUPE).     Born 21 March, 1417, on the Flüeli, a fertile plateau near Sachseln, Canton Obwalden, Switzerland; died 21 March, 1487, as a recluse in a… …

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  • 108Blessed Pierre de Castelnau —     Blessed Pierre de Castelnau     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Blessed Pierre de Castelnau     Born in the Diocese of Montpellier, Languedoc, now Department of Hérault, France; died 15 Jan., 1208. He embraced the ecclesiastical state, and was… …

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  • 109Blessed Richard Whiting —     Blessed Richard Whiting     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Blessed Richard Whiting     Last Abbot of Glastonbury and martyr, parentage and date of birth unknown, executed 15 Nov., 1539; was probably educated in the claustral school at Glastonbury …

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  • 110Blessed Sebastian Newdigate —     Bl. Sebastian Newdigate     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Bl. Sebastian Newdigate     Executed at Tyburn, 19 June, 1535. A younger son of John Newdigate of Harefield Place, Middlesex, king s sergeant, and Amphelys, daughter and heiress of John… …

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