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  • 81Spain — /spayn/, n. a kingdom in SW Europe. Including the Balearic and Canary islands, 39,244,195; 194,988 sq. mi. (505,019 sq. km). Cap.: Madrid. Spanish, España. * * * Spain Introduction Spain Background: Spain s powerful world empire of the 16th and… …

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  • 82Reformed Church of France — Infobox Christian denomination name = Reformed Church of France caption = main classification = orientation = polity = Presbyterian founded date = founded place = separated from = parent = merger = separations = associations = area = France… …

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  • 83Reformed and Presbyterian churches — ▪ Christianity Introduction       name given to various Protestant churches that share a common origin in the Reformation in 16th century Switzerland. Reformed is the term identifying churches regarded as essentially Calvinistic in doctrine. The… …

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  • 84Scotland — • The northern portion of the Island of Great Britain Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Scotland     Scotland     † …

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  • 85Christian monasticism — Icon of Saint Anthony the Great, the founder of Christian monasticism. Christian monasticism is a practice which began to develop early in the history of the Christian Church, modeled upon scriptural examples and ideals, including those in the… …

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  • 86About-Picard law — The 2001 About Picard law [abu pika:r] (named after French parliament members Nicolas About and Catherine Picard), a piece of French legislation, broadly speaking, makes it possible to act against organisations (legal entities) when such… …

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  • 87Marc Boegner — Marc Boegner, commonly known as pasteur Boegner (French pronunciation: [pastœʁ bœɲe]; 21 February 1881 – 18 December 1970), was a theologist, influential pastor, notable member of the French Resistance, and a French essayist, and a notable… …

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  • 88DU PLESSIS-MORNAY, Philippe (Seigneur du Plessis-Marly) — (1549 1623) Philippe Du Plessis Mornay was a French Protestant or Huguenot leader, statesman, political theorist, and prominent spokesman for the Protestant cause during the French Wars of Religion (1562 98). Born in Buhy, Normandy, under his… …

    Renaissance and Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary

  • 89Frère Roger — Background Roger was born the ninth and youngest child of Karl Ulrich Schütz, a Protestant pastor from Bachs in the Zürcher Unterland (Zürich Lowlands) in Switzerland, and his wife, Amélie Henriette Schütz Marsauche, a French Protestant woman… …

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  • 90PSALMS, BOOK OF — This article is arranged according to the following outline: < <title> > place in the canon number of psalms verse division division into books composition of the psalter date of the psalter ascription to david types of psalms psalms… …

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