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Chiavari

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Suffragan of Genoa. A city of the province of Genoa in Northern Italy, situated on a little bay of the Gulf of Genoa.

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Chiapas

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The Diocese comprises almost the entire state of that name in the Republic of Mexico. San Cristobal Las Casas, formerly called Ciudad Real, is the episcopal seat, and is the principal city of the state.

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Chevreul, Michel-Eugène

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Chemist, physicist, and philosopher, b. at Angers, France, 31 August, 1786; d. at Paris, 9 April, 1889.

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Cheverus, Jean-Louis Lefebvre de

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First Bishop of Boston, U.S.A., Bishop of Montauban; Archbishop of Bordeaux, France, and Cardinal, b. at Mayenne, France, 28 January, 1768; d. at Bordeaux 19 July, 1836.

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Chester

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Located in England. Though the See of Chester, schismatically created by Henry VIII in 1541, was recognized by the Holy See only for the short space of Queen Mary's reign, the city had in earlier times possessed a bishop and a cathedral, though only intermittently.

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Cherubini, Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore

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Article with biographical details emphasizing religious music and his time away from its composition.

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Cherubim

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Angelic beings or symbolic representations thereof, mentioned frequently in the Old Testament and once in the New Testament.

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Chersonesus

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The name for both a titular see of Crete and a titular see of Thrace, and suffragan to Heracleia.

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Cherokee Indians

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The largest and most important tribe of Iroquoian stock of the southern section of the United States, and formerly holding the whole southern Alleghany mountain region of North and South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee, with considerable portions of Alabama, Virginia and Kentucky.

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Chelm and Belz

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A diocese of the Greek-Ruthenian Rite in Russian Poland, subject directly to the Holy See, and formerly a suffragan of Kiijow.

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Chauncy, Maurice

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Prior of the English Carthusians at Bruges. (d. 1581)

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Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Summary of the author's life and literary contributions.

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Chatham

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The Diocese comprises the northern half of the Province of New Brunswick, Canada, i.e., the counties of Gloucester, Madawaska, Northumberland, Restigouche, Victoria, and the part of Kent north of the Richibucto River.

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Chateaubriand, François-René

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French writer, b. at Saint-Malo, Brittany, 4 September, 1768; d. at Paris, 4 July, 1848.

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Chasuble

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Called in Latin casula planeta or pænula, and in early Gallic sources amphibalus, the principal and most conspicuous Mass vestment, covering all the rest.

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Chastity

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The virtue which excludes or moderates the indulgence of the sexual appetite.

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Chastellain, Pierre

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Missionary among the Huron Indians, born at Senlis, France, in 1606; died at Quebec, 14 August, 1684.

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