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Wichita Indians
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A confederacy of Caddoan stock, formerly dwelling between the Arkansas River, Kansas, and the Brazos River, Texas.
Whithorn Priory
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15614a.htm
Founded in Scotland in the twelfth century.
White, Thomas
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15613c.htm
Several of White's opinions were censured by the Inquisition.
White, Stephen
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15612c.htm
Irish antiquarian and polyhistor. (1574-1646)
White, Edward
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Grandfather of Stephen Mallory White, born in County Limerick, Ireland, in the latter part of the eighteenth century; died December, 1863.
White, Charles Ignatius
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15611a.htm
American editor and historian. (1807-1878)
White Fathers
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15613d.htm
Missionaries of Our Lady of Africa of Algeria.
Whitby, Synod of
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15610a.htm
A conference at the monastery of St. Hilda at Whitby or Streanoeshalch. King Oswy with Bishops Colman and Chad represented the Celtic tradition; Alchfrid, son of Oswy, and Bishops Wilfrid and Agilbert that of Rome.
Whitby, Abbey of
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15609c.htm
Formerly called Streoneshalh. A Benedictine monastery in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England, founded about 657, as a double monastery, by Oswy, King of Northumberland.
Whipple, Amiel Weeks
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15608b.htm
American military engineer and soldier. (1818-1863)
Wetzer, Heinrich Joseph
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15607b.htm
Learned Orientalist, born at Anzefahr in Hesse-Cassel. (1801-1853)
Wettingen-Mehrerau, Abbacy Nullius of
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Cistercian abbey in Austria.
Weston, William
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15601a.htm
Jesuit missionary priest, born at Maidstone.
Westminster, Matthew of
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The name given to the supposed author of a well-known English chronicle, the "Flores Historiarum".