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Cardinal Protector
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03341a.htmSince the thirteenth century it has been customary at Rome to confide to some particular cardinal a special solicitude in the Roman Curia for the interests of a given religious order or institute, confraternity, church, college, city, or nation.
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