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Lace

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The two earliest known specimens of lace-worked linen albs are that of St. Francis, preserved at St. Clare's convent, Assisi, and the alb of Pope Boniface VIII, now in the treasury of the Sistine Chapel.

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Lac, Stanislaus du

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Jesuit educationist and social work, b. at Paris, 21 November, 1835; d. there, 30 August, 1909.

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Labyrinth

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A complicated arrangement of paths and passages; or a place, usually subterraneous, full of windings, corridors, rooms, etc., so intricately arranged as to render the getting out of it a very difficult matter.

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Labour Unions, Moral Aspects of

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Since a labour union is a society, its moral aspects are determined by its constitution, its end, its results, and the means employed in pursuit of the end.

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Labour and Labour Legislation

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Labour is work done by mind or body either partly or wholly for the purpose of producing utilities.

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Labbe, Philippe

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Born at Borges, 10 July, 1607; died at Paris, at the College of Clermont, 17 (16) March, 1667; a distinguished Jesuit writer on historical, geographical, and philological questions.

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Labat, Jean-Baptiste

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Dominican missionary, born at Paris, 1664; died there, 1738.

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Labarum (Chi-Rho)

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The name by which the military standard adopted by Constantine the Great after his celebrated vision (Lactantius, "De mortibus persecutorum", 44), was known in antiquity.

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Labadists

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A pietist sect of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries founded by Jean de Labadie, who was born at Bourg, near Bordeaux, 13 February, 1610, and died at Altonia, 13 February, 1674.

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La Valette, Jean Parisot de

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Forty-eighth Grand Master of the Order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem; b. in 1494; d. in Malta, 21 Aug., 1568.

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La Salette, Missionaries of

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Founded in 1852, at the shrine of Our Lady of La Salette, where some priests banded together to care for the numerous pilgrims frequenting the mountain.

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La Salette

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Located in the commune and parish of La Salette-Fallavaux, Canton of Corps, Department of Isere, and Diocese of Grenoble.

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La Rochelle

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The Diocese of La Rochelle (Rupellensis), suffragan of Bordeaux, comprises the entire Department of Charente-Inférieure.

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La Rochejacquelein, Henri-Auguste-Georges du Vergier, Comte de

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French politician, b. at the château of Citran (Fironde), on 28 September, 1805; d. on 7 January, 1867.

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La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, The Duke of

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Opposed during the last years of the reign of Louis XV to the government of Maupeou, and the friend of all the reformers who surrounded Louis XVI, he owed to the influence of these economists the favour of the king.

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La Roche Daillon, Joseph de

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Recollect, one of the most zealous missionaries of the Huron tribe, d. in France, 1656.

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