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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Notre Dame de Paris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Notre Dame de Paris (French for "Our Lady of Paris", meaning the church in Paris dedicated to Mary, the mother of Jesus), often known simply as Notre Dame in English, is a gothic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in Paris, France, with its main entrance to the west.
In 1871, a civil uprising leading to the establishment of the short-lived Paris Commune nearly set fire to the cathedral, and some records suggest that a mount of chairs within the cathedral were set alight.
Joan of Arc is beatified in 1909 in Notre Dame.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Napoleon Bonaparte
The Directory thought these terms too easy, and when a prelate was sent to Paris to negotiate the treaty, he was told that as an indispensable condition of peace, Pius VI must revoke the Briefs relating to the Civil Constitution of the clergy and to the Inquisition.
Fesch refused to lend himself to this expedient and occupy the Archbishopric of Paris; but a certain number of nominated bishops did go to their episcopal cities in the capacity of provisional administrators.
A commission of jurisconsults in Paris, after discussing the possibility of a law regulating the canonical institution of bishops without the pope's co operation, ended by deciding that to pass such a law was almost equivalent to schism.
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 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mozart was born to Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl Mozart, in the front room of 9 Getreidegasse in Salzburg, the capital of the sovereign Archbishopric of Salzburg, in what is now Austria, then part of the Holy Roman Empire.
During his formative years, Mozart made several European journeys, beginning with an exhibition in 1762 at the Court of the Elector of Bavaria in Munich, then in the same year at the Imperial Court in Vienna and Prague.
A long concert tour spanning three and a half years followed, taking him with his father to the courts of Munich, Mannheim, Paris, London (where Wolfgang Amadeus played with the famous Italian cellist Giovanni Battista Cirri), The Hague, again to Paris, and back home via Zürich, Donaueschingen, and Munich.
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 Napoleon Bonaparte   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
But the execution of the Duc d'Enghien had produced a deplorable impression in Europe; Royalist influences were at work against Bonaparte at the Vatican, and the pope was warned against crowning an emperor who, by the Constitution of 1804, would promise to maintain "the laws of the Concordat", in other words, the Organic Articles.
Pius VI, driven to bay, sent Cardinal Litta to Paris to treat with Napoleon: the pope was willing to join the Continental blockade, and suspend all intercourse with the English, but not to declare war against them.
Cambacérès, the arch chancellor, sent for the diocesan officials of Paris and explained to them that the marriage of Napoleon and Josephine had been invalid in consequence of the absence of the parish priest of the two parties and of witnesses.
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 Dissolution of the Monasteries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Opposition to Henry VIII occurred in the Person of Reginald Pole, who escaped to the Continent and later was made Cardinal, against his will, by the Pope to be a potential "Pope's man" in England in an anticipated more pro-Roman future.
Henry VIII originally offered Pole the archbishopric of York or the diocese of Winchester if he would support his divorce from Catherine of Aragon.
Pole withheld his support and went into self-imposed exile in France and Italy in 1532, continuing his studies in Padua and Paris.
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 Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of January 24   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
But instead of attending the Collège de Navarre (reserved for the nobility of Savoy), he studied at the Jesuit college of Clermont (1580-1588), where he thought his vocation would remain strong, because the school was renowned for piety as well as learning.
Cardinal de Retz tried to induce him to become his coadjutor with the right of succession to the see of Paris; Milan, almost by force, twice tried to secure him for its archbishopric; and the pope wished to elevate him to the college of cardinals.
He was also known as an outstanding confessor (he directed Blessed Marie Acarie in Paris for a time), as well as Saint Jane Frances de Chantal, whom he met in 1604 while preaching Lenten sermons at Dijon.
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 THE 12 SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC +|+ Charles Ernest Owen Carter
Thus we have an example, straight away, of a Virgo-Aries-Scorpio natus, the last value appearing in terms of the 8th house.
The data as given by Andre Barbault, to whom I must again tender my acknowledgments, are: Paris, April 9, 1821, 15 hrs.
Pope Alexander VI tried to stay attacks by offering him the archbishopric of Florence, but he replied that wanted no hat save that of the martyr, reddened in his own blood.
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 Italy
Although the Archbishops did not gain the temporal power of other ecclesiastical princes, three Popes and one major Anti-Pope would eventually emerge from their ranks, most recently Pope Paul VI.
Milan remains the most important city in Northern Italy, and the center, with Paris and London, of the European fashion industry.
It may be noticed that there are no less than seven Visconti Archbishops of Milan.
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