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  List of Earls in the peerages of the British Isles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Earl of Limerick (1803 - Peerage of Ireland)
The Earl of Gosford (1806 - Peerage of Ireland)
The Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl (1822 - Peerage of Ireland)
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 Saint-Cyran - LoveToKnow 1911
In the presbytery stands prominent the altar tomb with modern brasses inserted of Edmund Tudor, earl of Richmond (d.
At some unknown period in the 6th century the celebrated patron saint of Wales, Dewi or David, removed the chief seat of South Welsh ecclesiastical life to Menevia or Menapia (Mynyw), which is traditionally reported to have been the saint's birthplace..
It dates from the 3rd century, when the relics of Bishop St Didier (whence the name of the town) were brought thither after the destruction of Langres by the Germans.
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 Earl of St Germans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The title of Earl of St Germans was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1815.
Lord St Germans bears the subsidiary title of Baron Eliot, of St Germans in the County of Cornwall (1784) in the Peerage of Great Britain, which has been customarily used as a courtesy title by his eldest son.
Peregrine Nicholas Eliot, 10th Earl of St Germans (b.
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 Saint John Hospital
Following the capture of Rhodes, the knights of Saint John, known for the next two centuries as the knights of Rhodes, became the principal defenders of Christendom against Moslem incursions through the Mediterranean.
The Priors of Saint John played an important role in English medieval society, having the singular advantage of not owing their position to royal favor while, unlike the great nobles, they did not enjoy a local or dynastic power base.
Every Prior of Saint John was summoned to Parliament as a Peer, in an ex-officio capacity, from 1265 until 1536 and, with the restoration of the Grand Priory in 1557, for one further Parliament.
www.saintjohn.org /history/britknights.html   (3344 words)

  
 The Probert Encyclopaedia - People and Peoples (E)
Earl is a British title of nobility, corresponding with the Continental title of count.
Earl Godwin was Earl of the west Saxons.
The Earl of Surrey (Henry Howard) was an English poet and soldier.
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 Literary Encyclopedia: Saint Joan
Saint Joan, first produced in New York in 1923 and in London in 1924, is considered by many to be Shaw's greatest play, though some critics have taken a more negative view of it and it has probably been ranked less highly in recent years than in the past.
During the First World War she had been represented fighting alongside French soldiers against the Germans and it is likely that this was a factor that influenced her canonisation by the Roman Catholic Church in 1920.
The play is not written from an orthodox religious point of view but neither does it adopt a debunking attitude to her performance of miracles or her hearing of saints' voices, though it is implied that these could be accounted for in rationalist terms.
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 Desmond's Concise History of Ireland
On his second expedition in 1005, Brian visited the church founded by Saint Patrick at Armagh, where he made an offering of 20 ounces of gold, and expressly acknowledged the ecclesiastical supremacy of the Pope and bishops, thus insuring that his secular sovereignty would not be challenged by the Church.
Then, however, a succession of bishops, among whom Saint Malachy was the most prominent, worked with the Pope to rebuild the churches, to expunge the barbaric Viking culture, and even, for the first time in 600 years, to re-institute a conventional diocesan structure of Church administration.
While the Earl was in England, his son, Thomas Fitzgerald, invaded the Dublin Parliament, surrendered the sword of state and announced that he was no longer the King's deputy but his enemy**.
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 HEREDITARY PEERAGES IN THE PEERAGE OF GREAT BRITAIN BELOW THE RANK OF A MARQUESS
5 Barony of Hay of Pedwardine 31 December 1711(The Barony is held by the Scottish Earl of Kinnoull).
26 Barony of Talbot of Hensol 5 December 1733(The Barony is held by the English Earl of Shrewsbury and Iris Earl of Waterford).
32 Lordship of Longford,Barony of Longford 29 June 1747(The Lordship/Barony belongs to The Viscountcy of Folkestone and is held by the Earl of Radnor).
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 Newman Reader - Mission of St. Benedict
A wealthy Earl, whose heart was touched, consulted his Bishop how he could best promote the divine glory: the Bishop answered that they only were free, serene, and unsolicitous, who renounced the world, and that their renunciation brought a blessing on their country.
Earl Alwin observed in reply, that he had inherited some waste land in the midst of marshes, with a forest in the neighbourhood, some open spots of good turf, and others of meadow; and he took the Bishop to see it.
It was fitting that two saints should go to heaven together, whose mode of going thither was the same; both of them singing, praying, working, and guiding others, in joy and exultation, till their very last hour.
www.newmanreader.org /works/historical/volume2/benedictine/mission.html   (12380 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
They are commemorated as saints in the calendars of the Eastern Churches (Greeks, Syrians, Copts).[36] Under the influence of this Oriental practice, their veneration spread also in the West and became very popular toward the end of the first millennium of the Christian era.
On the other hand, some groups, including the German Lutherans, preserved a tender devotion to the Christ Child and celebrated Christmas in a deeply spiritual way within their churches, hearts, and homes.[20] In England the Puritans condemned even the reduced religious celebration that was held in the Anglican Church after the separation from Rome.
The Saint dressed in deacon's vestments, for a deacon he was [out of humility, St. Francis never became a priest, remaining a deacon all his life], sang the gospel.
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 Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk | Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
Sitting next to Comrade Snarky, the Earl of Slander was writing something in a pocket notepad, his eyes flicking between her and his pen.
Saint Gut-Free pulls the lever to fold open the door, and standing on the curb is little Miss Sneezy.
Saint Gut-Free brought boxes of pork-rind snacks and dried cheese puffs, his fingers and chin orange with the salt dust.
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 Religion of the Ancient Celts.
The enthusiastic reception of Christianity, the devotion of the early Celtic saints, and the character of the old Celtic church, all suggest this.
A saint would visit the tomb of a pagan to hear an old epic rehearsed, or would call up pagan heroes from hell and give them a place in paradise.
On the altar of Saintes is a squatting but headless god with torque and purse.
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 Volume Four of "The X-mas Files"
Among the German tribes the oak-tree was sacred to Odin, their god of war, and they sacrificed to it until St Boniface, in the eighth century, persuaded them to exchange it for the Christmas tree, a young fir-tree adorned in honour of the Christ child.
Thus we find that when Pope Gregory [540-604] sent Saint Augustine as a missionary to convert Anglo-Saxon England he directed that so far as possible the saint should accommodate the new and strange Christian rites to the heathen ones with which the natives had been familiar from their birth.
For example, he advised Saint Augustine to allow his converts on certain festivals to eat and kill a great number of oxen to the glory of God the Father, as formerly they had done this in honor of [their gods].
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 History of Normandie / Normandy
William FitzOsbern, Lord of Isle of Wight, Norwich, Earl of Hereford Chepstow Castle.
The fort of montagne Saint Catherine at Rouen was demolished by Henri.
Two thousand Germans remained in Le Havre,, which was besieged from 2 September.It was taken on 10 September, after the British had unleashed 11.000 tonnes of bombs.
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 30th infantry - Unit Histories - 117th Infantry - Tennesse National Guard
After the breach of the German defensive positions at St. Lo, the 2nd Armored Division and the 4th Infantry Division were committed through this hole and advanced to the south.
The German potential at Saint-Barthelemy soon was crippled, however, thanks to the brilliant performance of a group of British RAF Typhoons.
In mid-December 1944, the quietest sector of the Western Front was the rugged 60 miles along the German border between the tip of Luxemburg on the south and the headwaters of the Roer River on the north.
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 Index Be-Bh
When the Whig government fell in 1852 and the Earl of Derby, leader of the Conservative Party, formed a short-lived minority government, Disraeli was chancellor of the Exchequer.
After the Germans invaded Czechoslovakia in March 1939, Beck gained the disputed Teschen area for his country and on April 6 signed the alliance with Great Britain that was to bring Britain into World War II after the Germans invaded Poland in September of that same year.
He was active in the Zionist movement throughout the 1930s and in 1938 became the leader of the Polish branch of the Betar youth movement, dedicated to the establishment of a Jewish state on both sides of the Jordan River.
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 16 May History: This Date
The German army launches Operation Gypsy Baron against partisan resistance fighters who controlled large tracts of swampland, forest, and mountain ranges and were still battling the German invaders on the eastern front in Russia.
Earl was often dissatisfied with their product, and he showed open contempt for the Fisher Brothers, whom he dubbed "the Seven Dwarves." The Fishers, in turn, weren't sure Earl was as practical as he could have been.
Earl, as much as anyone, was responsible for the glorious aesthetic renaissance of 1950s Detroit.
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 AlterNet: Vatican Still Must Answer on Holocaust
It was virtually an article of faith during the decade I attended Catholic schools that Pius XII would one day be canonized a saint.
He was publicly silent when the Germans occupied Rome in 1944 and rounded up many of the city's Jews.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and columnist.
www.alternet.org /columnists/story/12448   (1057 words)

  
 Roger of Hoveden on Becket
Letter of Theobald, earl of Blois, to pope Alexander on the death of the blessed Thomas (1171)
In this year also, Louis, king of the Franks, caused himself to be divorced from his wife Eleanor, daughter of the duke of Aquitaine, the archbishops, bishops, earls and barons, making oath that she had ceased to deserve to be his wife.
When this had been done, the king commanded the archbishops and bishops to annex their seals to the said writing; but, while the others were ready so to do, the archbishop of Canterbury swore that he would never annex his seal to that writing or conform those laws.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Leo IX
The German Pope Damasus II died in 1048, and the Romans sent to ask Henry III, Conrad's successor, to let them have as the new pope either Halinard, Archbishop of Lyons, or Bruno.
When at length he was overcome by the combined importunities of the emperor, the Germans, and the Romans, he agreed to go to Rome, and to accept the papacy if freely elected thereto by the Roman people.
Throughout the troubles which Robert of Jumièges, Archbishop of Canterbury, had with the family of Earl Godwin, he received the support of the pope, who sent him the pallium and condemned Stigand, the usurper of his see (1053?).
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 SAINT CLARA Virgin
Columba, the most famous of the saints associated with Scotland, was actually an Irishman of the O'Neill or O'Donnell clan, born about the year 521 at Garton, County Donegal, in north Ireland.
The room in which he was born was known as the "St. Francis room," from an old painting on the wall showing the friar of Assisi preaching to the birds; and it was this lover of all living creatures whom Francis de Sales was to choose as his patron in later years.
Because of the general breakdown of civil institutions resulting from the great migrations, the Church assumed an important role in the secular life of sixth-century Italy, particularly during the pontificate of Pope Gregory I, called "The Great." It may be useful to dwell briefly on the historical events of the period preceding Gregory's birth.
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 Fresno County People & Places
The second wave of German colonization in Russia, initiated in 1803 by Czar Alexander I, came mainly from central Germany, although a significant number of Mennonites immigrated from the Danzig area of Prussia.
The primary focus of German colonists was Bessarabia, which had newly been acquired by Russia from the Ottoman Empire, but German settlement also took place in Volhynia and the Baltic provinces.
German Russians arrived in the Fresno area as early as 1887 from the Volga River region of the Soviet Union.
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 Red Scare Truth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
CIA agents, angry that he had exposed a key German spy, simply increased their attacks on him after it was shown that the official was in fact a spy.
Located in Berlin, this metaphor of liberation also allowed the Germans, obedient to the victor, to cosy up to their protector like a little girl who has lost her parents, and to be warmed by his saintly halo.
It was just the Nazi gang that had dragged the fundamentally genial German race into the abyss; the Germans had suffered during the war, and after it they had undergone the terrible ordeal of expulsion from the east and the vengeance of the victors.
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 Mas de Gigaro Rental Villa, La Croix Valmer, Recent photographs from Saint-Tropez
The body of the Earl of Shaftesbury has been found in mountains in the south of France, five months after he disappeared, it was reported today.
A bravade (or 'act of defiance'), originally a procession in honor of a town's patron saint, is now a colorful Provençal festival.
In 2003 German tourists spent UKP 39.2 billion on foreign holidays and leisure travel, followed by Britons...
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 Freemasonry in Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
It is reported that Keith was Master of a lodge in Saint Petersburg in the years 1732-34, but we have no documents proving this.
Most of its members were English merchants established in Saint Petersburg, the most “European” city of Russia, founded by Peter the Great in 1703.
An important detail is that five lodges, three in Saint Petersburg, one in Moscow and one in Yassay, obtained their warrants simultaneously in 1774.
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 BELLA SION - General History: The Story of the First LDS Chapel in Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Although the existence of this little chapel and the story of its builders is very important in the historical context of the church, they went virtually unnoticed for many years, and risked being forever forgotten.
Some Latter-day Saint servicemen from these airfields, tried to gather together to find comfort in the exercise of their common faith.
Then captain Earl has a portable organ which he takes with him, and we will have it in our meeting-house, and we will be able to use it also to a very good advantage.
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 Part ii A   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Saint Francis wrote a beautiful Christmas hymn in Latin ("Psalmus in Nativitate"), but there is no evidence that he composed carols in Italian.
The first American carol was written by the famous missionary to the Huron Indians, saint, and martyr John de Brebeuf, S.J. (1649), who labored among the Hurons from 1626 until he was captured and slowly tortured to death by the savage Iroquois when they brutally attacked and destroyed the Huron mission in 1649 and 1650.
Saint Joseph, the Virgin; the ox and the mule.
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 Index La   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
He was elected to the legislature of Saarland in 1970 (until 1975) and became a mayor of Saarbrücken in 1974 and that city's lord mayor in 1976.
When the Germans moved to occupy the whole country, he kept the small port of Sète open for the escape of anti-Nazis.
Captured by the Germans, he was condemned, on Jan. 9, 1943, to ten years in prison.
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 NWC Review, Summer 2000: Cong. Skelton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
By the time the Germans invaded Russia in June of 1941, Hitler was totally enamored with the blitzkrieg.
While the stormtroop units were able to take advantage of surprise and speed to overcome enemy defensive positions, they still were short of the mobility required to take advantage of their gains.
Isaac Newton Skelton III and Earl Franklin Skelton, Ike, This Is You (Washington, D.C.: n.p., 1995), pp.
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