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Faye, Hervé-Auguste-Etienne-Albann
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Astronomer. (1814-1902)
Faversham Abbey
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A former Benedictine monastery of the Cluniac Congregation situated in the County of Kent about nine miles west of Canterbury. It was founded about 1147 by King Stephen and Queen Matilda.
Faustus of Riez
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Bishop of Riez in Southern Gaul, the best known and most distinguished defender of Semipelagianism, b. between 405 and 410, d. between 490 and 495.
Faustinus and Jovita, Saints
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Brothers martyred at Brescia in 120.
Fathers of the Church
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The word Father is used in the New Testament to mean a teacher of spiritual things, by whose means the soul of man is born again into the likeness of Christ:
Fathers of Mercy, The
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05794a.htm
A congregation of missionary priests first established at Lyons, France, in 1808, and later at Paris, in 1814, and finally approved by Pope Gregory XVI, 18 February, 1834.
Fatalism
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The view which holds that all events in the history of the world, and, in particular, the actions and incidents which make up the story of each individual life, are determined by fate.
Faroe Islands
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A group of Danish islands rising from the sea some four hundred miles west of Norway and almost as far south of Iceland.
Faro
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A suffragan of Evora, Portugal, and extending over the province of Algarve.
Faribault, Jean-Baptiste
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Early settler in Minnesota. (1774-1860)
Faribault, George-Barthélemy
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Canadian archaeologist. (1789-1866)
Farfa, Abbey of
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A legend in the "Chronicon Farfense" relates the foundation of a monastery at Farfa in the time of the Emperors Julian, or Gratian, by the Syrian St. Laurentius, who had come to Rome with his sister, Susannah, and had been made Bishop of Spoleto.