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    recognition, and consequently a public cult of veneration, is conferred on some denominational saints through the process of canonization in the Catholic Church...
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    with the earliest cults of the saint being located in Diospolis. George was executed by decapitation on 23 April 303. A witness of his suffering convinced...
    81 KB (9,289 words) - 00:46, 29 July 2024
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    church of Santa Maria Antiqua, Rome. The Feast of the Conception of the Virgin Mary had reached southern Italy by the ninth century. The cult of Saint Anne...
    32 KB (3,306 words) - 12:21, 29 July 2024
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    Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine (Leiden: Brill) 1986, accounts for these and further local Saints Valentine (Ch. 6 "The Genoese Saint Valentine and...
    135 KB (13,323 words) - 16:57, 31 July 2024
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    how the cult of Saint Alban originated is the subject of some debate: there is little textual or archaeological evidence that a cult of Saint Alban existed...
    58 KB (7,551 words) - 22:39, 5 July 2024
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    part in the establishment and promotion of the Cult of Saint Alban. The saint was said to have revealed the story of his martyrdom to Germanus in a dream...
    20 KB (2,659 words) - 19:29, 16 July 2024
  • the schedule of Protestant services is headed culte réformé. Within the Catholic Church, the most prominent cults are those of the saints. In the specific...
    5 KB (608 words) - 05:22, 13 May 2024
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    Thus the kings of Norway promoted the cult of St. Olaf, the kings of Sweden the cult of St. Erik and the kings of Denmark the cult of Saint Canute, just...
    52 KB (5,986 words) - 23:35, 2 August 2024
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    1969, Frederick A. Praeger. Henry Ansgar Kelly, in Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine. 1986, p. 62, says: As Thurston has noted, no English church...
    40 KB (4,345 words) - 21:06, 14 July 2024
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    of Northern Italy as the symbol of Bologna, Genoa, Padua, Reggio Emilia, Mantua, Vercelli and Alessandria, the form has only received a cult of Saint...
    23 KB (2,724 words) - 06:38, 13 June 2024
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    under the name Death Cult, which was an evolution of the name of lead vocalist Ian Astbury's previous band Southern Death Cult. They gained a dedicated...
    83 KB (9,723 words) - 10:04, 3 August 2024
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    died at the age of 27. The cult of Saint Paraskeva began to spread in the 14th century from Bulgaria into the Danubian Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia...
    15 KB (1,654 words) - 16:06, 17 July 2024
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    who is venerated as a Christian saint and martyr. He is counted as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. Blaise is a saint in the Catholic, Western Rite Orthodoxy...
    21 KB (2,520 words) - 10:38, 17 July 2024
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    rediscovery of her relics at Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai was about 800, and presumably implies an existing cult at that date...
    43 KB (4,536 words) - 16:50, 7 July 2024
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    Otto II in 972. It is the oldest church of the cult of Saint Pantaleon west of Byzantium. At the Basilica of the Vierzehnheiligen near Staffelstein in...
    20 KB (2,094 words) - 13:50, 27 July 2024
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    Thecla (redirect from Saint Thecla)
    Stephen J. The Cult of Saint Thecla. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Print. Osiek, Carolyn. 'The Cult of Thecla: a Tradition of Women's Piety in...
    23 KB (2,948 words) - 06:05, 8 June 2024
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    Expeditus (redirect from Saint Expeditus)
    thanking Expédit for wishes granted and favors received. In Réunion, the cult of Saint Expédit has been syncretic, associating him with goddess Kali, with...
    12 KB (1,279 words) - 06:56, 28 July 2024
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    accounts, Saint Lucy's eyes were gouged out prior to her execution. The most ancient archaeological traces attributable to the cult of Saint Lucia have...
    35 KB (3,859 words) - 00:28, 28 July 2024
  • A cult is a group requiring unwavering devotion to a set of beliefs and practices which are considered deviant outside the norms of society, which is...
    104 KB (11,818 words) - 06:08, 30 July 2024
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    Monica (c. 332 – 387) was an early North African Christian saint and the mother of Augustine of Hippo. She is remembered and honored in the Catholic and...
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