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  • 81Jean-Jacques Casot —     Jean Jacques Casot     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Jean Jacques Casot     The last surviving Jesuit of the old Canada mission, born in Liège, Belgium, 4 October, 1728; died at Quebec, 16 March, 1800. With him ended the long line of the sons of… …

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  • 82Michael Alford —     Michael Alford     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Michael Alford     A Jesuit missionary in England during the persecution, b. in London 1587; d. at St. Omers, 11 August 1652. His real name was Griffith, and he sometimes passed as John Flood, the… …

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  • 83Michel Le Tellier —     ♦ Michel Le Tellier     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Michel Le Tellier     Born 16 October, 1643, of a peasant family, not at Vire as has so often been said, but at Vast near Cherbourg; died at La Flèche, 2 September, 1719. He was educated at… …

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  • 84Philip Powel —     Ven. Philip Powel     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ven. Philip Powel     (alias MORGAN, alias PROSSER)     Martyr, b. at Tralon, Brecknockshire, 2 Feb., 1594; d. at Tyburn 30 June, 1646. He was the son of Roger and Catherine Powel, and was… …

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  • 85Richard Thimelby —     Richard Thimelby     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Richard Thimelby     (Alias ASHBY)     Missionary priest, b. in Lincolnshire, England, 1614; d. at St. Omer s, Belgium, 7 Jan., 1672. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1632. Having taught… …

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  • 86Saint Herbert of Derwentwater —     St. Herbert of Derwentwater     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Herbert of Derwentwater     (Hereberht).     Date of birth unknown; d. 20 March, 687; an anchorite of the seventh century, who dwelt for many years on the little island still known …

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  • 87Saint Maedoc —     St. Maedoc     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Maedoc     (MOEDHOG, MOGUE, AEDDAN FOEDDOG, AIDUS, HUGH)     First Bishop of Ferns, in Wexford, b. about 558, on an island in Brackley Lough, County Cavan; d. 31 January, 626. He was the son of… …

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  • 88Saint Margaret of Scotland —     St. Margaret of Scotland     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Margaret of Scotland     Born about 1045, died 16 Nov., 1092, was a daughter of Edward Outremere , or the Exile , by Agatha, kinswoman of Gisela, the wife of St. Stephen of Hungary.… …

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  • 89Saint Odo —     St. Odo     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Odo     (Oda)     Archbishop of Canterbury, d. 2 June, 959 (not in 958; recent researches showing that he was living on 17 May, 959). According to the nearly contemporary account of him in the… …

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  • 90Saint Thais —     St. Thais     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Thais     (THAISIS or THAISIA).     A penitent in Egypt in the fourth century. In the Greek menology her name occurs on 8 Oct., it is found also in the martyrologies of Maurolychus and Greven, but… …

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