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Saint Sylvester, Order of

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The Order is neither monastic nor military but a purely honorary title created by Gregory XVI, 31 Oct., 1841.

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Saint Petersburg

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The imperial residence and second capital of Russia, lies at the mouth of the Neva on the Gulf of Finland.

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Saint Peter, Tomb of

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The history of the confusion and conflicting authorities surrounding the location of the tomb of Saint Peter.

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Saint Peter, Basilica of

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The present Church of St. Peter stands upon the site where at the beginning of the first century the gardens of Agrippina lay.

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Saint Paul-without-the Walls

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An abbey nullius. As early as 200 the burial place of the great Apostle in the Via Ostia was marked by a cella memoriæ, near which the Catacomb of Comodilla was established.

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Saint Paul (Minnesota)

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Archdiocese comprising the counties of Ramsey, Hennepin, Chisago, Anoka, Dakota, Scott, Wright, Rice, Lesueur, Carver, Nicollet, Sibley, Meeker, Redwood, Renville, Kandiyohi, Lyon, Lincoln, Yellow Medicine, Lac-Qui-Parle, Chippewa, Swift, Goodhue, Big Stone, and Brown, which stretch across the State of Minnesota from east to west, in about the center of its southern half.

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Saint Omer, College of

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Well-known Jesuit college at St. Omer, often spoken of under the anglicized form of St. Omers or St. Omer's, founded by Father Parsons in 1592 or 1593.

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Saint Mark, University of

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The highest institution of learning in Peru, located at Lima, under the official name of Universidad Mayor de San Marcos. Reputed to be the oldest university in the New World, created by a royal decree of 12 May, 1551.

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Saint Lucius, Monastery of

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Located in Chur, Switzerland. The Church of St. Lucius was built over the grave of this saint, whose relics were preserved in it until the sixteenth century.

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Saint Louis, University of

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Probably the oldest university west of the Mississippi River, was founded in the City of St. Louis in 1818 by the Right Reverend Louis William Du Bourg, Bishop of Louisiana.

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Saint Louis (Missouri)

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Created a diocese 2 July, 1826; raised to the rank of an archdiocese 20 July, 1847.

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Saint Joseph, Diocese of

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The City of St. Joseph, Missouri, was founded by Joseph Robidoux, a Catholic. At the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1866, St. Joseph was among the new episcopal sees proposed.

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Saint Joseph's College, University of

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Founded in 1864 by Rev. Camille Lefebvre in Memramcook, New Brunswick, Canada.

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Saint John's University

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The legal title of a Catholic boarding-school at Collegeville, Minnesota, conducted by the Benedictine Fathers of St. John's Abbey.

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Saint John

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Diocese in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada.

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Saint James of Compostela, Order of

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Founded in the twelfth century, owes its name to the national patron of Spain, St. James the Greater.

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Saint Isidore, College of

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In Rome, originally founded for the use of Spanish Franciscans during the pontificate of Gregory XV.

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Saint Hyacinthe

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Diocese in the Province of Quebec, suffragan of Montreal.

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Saint George, Orders of

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Knights of St. George appear at different historical periods and in different countries as mutually independent bodies having nothing in common but the veneration of St. George, the patron of knighthood.

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Saint George's

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Diocese in Newfoundland. Beginning at Garnish it takes in the western portion of the south coast and then stretches along the Gulf of St. Lawrence, northwards, almost as far as the Straits of Belle Isle, lying between 55° 20' and 59° 30' west longitude and between 47° 30' and 51° 20' north latitude.

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Saint Gall

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A Swiss bishopric directly subject to the Holy See. It includes the Canton of St. Gall and, as a temporary arrangement, the two half-cantons of Appenzell Outer Rhodes and Appenzell Inner Rhodes.

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Saint Francis Xavier's College, University of

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University in Nova Scotia founded in 1885 under the name of St. Francis Xavier's College

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Saint Francis Mission

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A noted Catholic Indian mission village under Jesuit control near Pierreville, Yamaska district, Province of Quebec, Canada.

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