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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Leon |
 | | Ordoño II, who vanquished the Moors at S. Esteban de Gormaz, and was routed by them at Valdejunquera reduced the Counts of Castile to submission and founded the cathedral of Leon (914-24). |
 | | María de Carvajal, Franciscan Conceptionists, Augustinian nuns, and Discalced nuns of Sta. |
 | | Cruz, besides other uncloistered communities of women, viz., the Sisters of Charity in the Hospital Provincial and the Chapter Hospital and in the Asilo Municipal, an asylum of the Little Sisters of the Poor, a college of Carmelites of Charity, Servants of Jesus for the aid of the sick, and a convent of Carmelite Sisters. |
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