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2 days ago · Mother Teresa. Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu MC (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒi.u]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa, [a] was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, [b] at the age of ...
1 day ago · St. Agnes’ name means “chaste” in Greek and “lamb” in Latin. Both meanings foreshadowed her death as a virgin martyr who died because she defended her chastity and refused to give up her faith. St. Agnes was born to noble, Christian parents in 291 A.D. in the Roman Empire. She lived during a time of Christian persecution under the ...
4 days ago · Philip the Handsome [b] (22 July 1478 – 25 September 1506), also called the Fair, was ruler of the Burgundian Netherlands and titular Duke of Burgundy from 1482 to 1506, as well as the first Habsburg King of Castile (as Philip I) for a brief time in 1506. The son of Maximilian of Austria (later Holy Roman Emperor as Maximilian I) and Mary of ...
Agneta Blok as Flora Batava on a commemorative medal by Jan Boskam, 1700. Agnes, or Agneta Block (29 October 1629, Emmerich am Rhein – 20 April 1704, Amsterdam) was a Dutch art collector and horticulturalist. She is most remembered as the compiler of an album of flower and insect paintings and as one of the first Europeans to successfully ...
Apr 20, 2024 · Saint Agnes of Montepulciano receiving the Holy Eucharist from an Angel wikipedia.org/public domain. Saint Agnes of Montepulciano (+1317) is one of the ‘incorruptibles’. She was born in the picturesque cliff-top Italian city on January 28th, 1268, the same day as her fellow Dominican, Thomas Aquinas (whose birth year was likely 1225).
Apr 24, 2024 · Karl Kraus (born April 28, 1874, Gitschin, Bohemia [now Jičín, Czech Republic]—died June 12, 1936, Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian journalist, critic, playwright, and poet who has been compared with Juvenal and Jonathan Swift for his satiric vision and command of language.
4 days ago · 1165. Birth of Sophia van Zutphen-Gelre. 1179. 1179. Age 57. Death of Agnes of Arnstein. Zutphen, Geldern, (modern Netherlands) Genealogy for Agnes van Arnstein (c.1122 - c.1179) family tree on Geni, with over 260 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
