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1 day ago · Classification. Although the name Franco-Provençal suggests it is a bridge dialect between French and the Provençal dialect of Occitan, it is a separate Gallo-Romance language that transitions into the Oïl languages Morvandiau and Franc-Comtois to the northwest, into Romansh to the east, into the Gallo-Italic Piemontese to the southeast, and finally into the Vivaro-Alpine dialect of Occitan ...
1 day ago · Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone ( c. 1181 – 3 October 1226), known as Francis of Assisi, [b] was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. He was inspired to lead a Christian life of poverty as a beggar [7] and itinerant preacher.
3 days ago · Spanish ( español) or Castilian ( castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language ...
1 day ago · The Christian doctrine of the Trinity ( Latin: Trinitas, lit. 'triad', from Latin: trinus 'threefold') [1] is the central doctrine concerning the nature of God in most Christian churches, which defines one God existing in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine persons: [2] [3] God the Father, God the Son ( Jesus Christ) and God the ...
2 days ago · Saint Barthélemy ( French: Saint-Barthélemy, [sɛ̃ baʁtelemi] ⓘ ), officially the Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Barthélemy, [7] also known as St. Barts (English) [8] or St. Barth (French), is an overseas collectivity of France [9] in the Caribbean. The island lies about 30 kilometres (19 mi) southeast of the island of Saint Martin ...
4 days ago · O GIVE thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious * and his mercy endureth for ever. 2 O give thanks unto the God of all gods * for his mercy endureth for ever. 3 O thank the Lord of all lords * for his mercy endureth for ever. 4 Who only doeth great wonders * for his mercy endureth for ever.
6 days ago · The deuterocanonical books, meaning "Of, pertaining to, or constituting a second canon," collectively known as the Deuterocanon (DC), are certain books and passages considered to be canonical books of the Old Testament by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Assyrian Church of the East, but which modern Jews and Protestants regard as apocrypha.
