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Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin

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Prince Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin (December 22, 1770 – May 6, 1840) was an emigre Russian aristocrat and Roman Catholic priest known as The Apostle of the Alleghenies. [1]

60 relations: Adelheid Amalie Gallitzin, Allegheny Front, Allegheny Mountains, Augustine of Hippo, Austrian Empire, Bardstown, Kentucky, Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel (Loretto, Pennsylvania), Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Conewago, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Canonization, Catherine the Great, Catholic Church, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Charles M. Schwab, Cincinnati, Conewago Township, Pennsylvania, Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Conrail, Denis Diderot, Dennis Cahill, Diocese, Dmitri Alekseyevich Gallitzin, Duchy of Brabant, French language, French Revolution, Gallitzin, Pennsylvania, Gustav III of Sweden, House of Golitsyn, John Carroll (bishop), Kentucky, Knyaz, Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, Loretto, Pennsylvania, Martinsburg, West Virginia, Michael (archangel), Middleway, West Virginia, Naturalization, Netherlands, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Port Tobacco Village, Maryland, Priest, Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona–Johnstown, Russian Empire, Russian nobility, Russian Orthodox Church, Saint Petersburg, ..., Servant of God, Society of the Sacred Heart, South Holland, Taneytown, Maryland, The Hague, United States, Voltaire, William I of the Netherlands, Wizard Clip, Yelizaveta Golitsyna. Expand index (10 more) »

Adelheid Amalie Gallitzin

Princess Adelheid Amalie Gallitzin (also known as Amaliia Samuilovna Golitsyna or in Russian as Амалия Самуиловна Голицына; 28 August 1748 – 17 April 1806) was the daughter of the Prussian Field Marshal Count Samuel von Schmettau and the mother of Prince Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin.

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Allegheny Front

The Allegheny Front is the major southeast- or east-facing escarpment in the Allegheny Mountains in southern Pennsylvania, western Maryland, and eastern West Virginia, USA.

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Allegheny Mountains

The Allegheny Mountain Range, informally the Alleghenies and also spelled Alleghany and Allegany, is part of the vast Appalachian Mountain Range of the eastern United States and Canada and posed a significant barrier to land travel in less technologically advanced eras.

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Augustine of Hippo

Saint Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 28 August 430) was a Roman African, early Christian theologian and philosopher from Numidia whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy.

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Austrian Empire

The Austrian Empire (Kaiserthum Oesterreich, modern spelling Kaisertum Österreich) was a Central European multinational great power from 1804 to 1919, created by proclamation out of the realms of the Habsburgs.

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Bardstown, Kentucky

Bardstown is a home rule-class city in Nelson County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Basilica of St. Michael the Archangel (Loretto, Pennsylvania)

The Basilica of St.

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Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Conewago

The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, also known as Conewago Chapel, is a Roman Catholic minor basilica dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus located in Conewago Township, Pennsylvania.

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Cambria County, Pennsylvania

Cambria County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Canonization

Canonization is the act by which a Christian church declares that a person who has died was a saint, upon which declaration the person is included in the "canon", or list, of recognized saints.

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Catherine the Great

Catherine II (Russian: Екатерина Алексеевна Yekaterina Alekseyevna; –), also known as Catherine the Great (Екатери́на Вели́кая, Yekaterina Velikaya), born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, was Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796, the country's longest-ruling female leader.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

Chambersburg is a borough in and the county seat of Franklin County, in the South Central region of Pennsylvania, United States.

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Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Charles Carroll (September 19, 1737 – November 14, 1832), known as Charles Carroll of Carrollton or Charles Carroll III to distinguish him from his similarly named relatives, was a wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Charles M. Schwab

Charles Michael Schwab (February 18, 1862 – September 18, 1939) was an American steel magnate.

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Cincinnati

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Conewago Township, Pennsylvania

Conewago Township may refer to.

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Congregation for the Causes of Saints

The Congregation for the Causes of Saints is the congregation of the Roman Curia that oversees the complex process that leads to the canonization of saints, passing through the steps of a declaration of "heroic virtues" and beatification.

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Conrail

Conrail, the Consolidated Rail Corporation,, was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeastern United States between 1976 and 1999, when its routes were split between the CSX Corporation and Norfolk Southern Railway.

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Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot (5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.

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Dennis Cahill

Reverend Dennis Cahill was an Irish priest who founded several Catholic Parishes in the late 1700s in Maryland and Virginia in the Potomac River valley area.

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Diocese

The word diocese is derived from the Greek term διοίκησις meaning "administration".

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Dmitri Alekseyevich Gallitzin

Prince Dmitri Alexeievich Gallitzin FRS (21 December 1728 – 16 March 1803) was a Russian diplomat, art agent, author, volcanologist and mineralogist.

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Duchy of Brabant

The Duchy of Brabant was a State of the Holy Roman Empire established in 1183.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.

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Gallitzin, Pennsylvania

Gallitzin is a borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.

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Gustav III of Sweden

Gustav III (– 29 March 1792) was King of Sweden from 1771 until his assassination in 1792.

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House of Golitsyn

The Golitsyn (ɡɐˈlʲitsɨn) family, one of the largest and most princely of the noble houses of Russia, originated in the Duchy of Lithuania.

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John Carroll (bishop)

John Carroll (January 8, 1735 – December 3, 1815) was a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the first bishop and archbishop in the United States.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.

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Knyaz

Knyaz or knez is a historical Slavic title, used both as a royal and noble title in different times of history and different ancient Slavic lands.

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Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor

Leopold II (Peter Leopold Josef Anton Joachim Pius Gotthard; 5 May 1747 1 March 1792) was Holy Roman Emperor and King of Hungary and Bohemia from 1790 to 1792, Archduke of Austria and Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1765 to 1790.

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Loretto, Pennsylvania

Loretto is a borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Martinsburg, West Virginia

Martinsburg is a city in and the county seat of Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States, in the tip of the state's Eastern Panhandle region.

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Michael (archangel)

Michael (translit; translit; Michahel;ⲙⲓⲭⲁⲏⲗ, translit) is an archangel in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

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Middleway, West Virginia

Middleway is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States.

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Naturalization

Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the legal act or process by which a non-citizen in a country may acquire citizenship or nationality of that country.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Pennsylvania Railroad

The Pennsylvania Railroad (or Pennsylvania Railroad Company and also known as the "Pennsy") was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.

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Port Tobacco Village, Maryland

Port Tobacco, officially Port Tobacco Village, is a town in Charles County, in southern Maryland, United States.

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Priest

A priest or priestess (feminine) is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona–Johnstown

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona–Johnstown (Dioecesis Altunensis-Johnstoniensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Pennsylvania.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire (Российская Империя) or Russia was an empire that existed across Eurasia and North America from 1721, following the end of the Great Northern War, until the Republic was proclaimed by the Provisional Government that took power after the February Revolution of 1917.

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Russian nobility

The Russian nobility (дворянство. dvoryanstvo) arose in the 14th century.

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Russian Orthodox Church

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC; Rússkaya pravoslávnaya tsérkov), alternatively legally known as the Moscow Patriarchate (Moskóvskiy patriarkhát), is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches, in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox patriarchates.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).

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Servant of God

"Servant of God" is a term used for individuals by various religions for people believed to be pious in the faith's tradition.

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Society of the Sacred Heart

The Society of the Sacred Heart (Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) is an international Roman Catholic religious congregation for women established in France by St.

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South Holland

South Holland (Zuid-Holland) is a province of the Netherlands with a population of just over 3.6 million as of 2015 and a population density of about, making it the country's most populous province and one of the world's most densely populated areas.

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Taneytown, Maryland

Taneytown is a town in Carroll County, Maryland, United States.

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The Hague

The Hague (Den Haag,, short for 's-Gravenhage) is a city on the western coast of the Netherlands and the capital of the province of South Holland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on Christianity as a whole, especially the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state.

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William I of the Netherlands

William I (Willem Frederik, Prince of Orange-Nassau; 24 August 1772 – 12 December 1843) was a Prince of Orange and the first King of the Netherlands and Grand Duke of Luxembourg.

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Wizard Clip

The legend of the Wizard Clip is a popular ghost story about an incident said to have occurred in Middleway, West Virginia in the 1790s.

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Yelizaveta Golitsyna

Sister Yelizaveta Alexeyevna Golitsyna (also Elizabeth Gallitzin) (born on 22 February 1797, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire - died on 26 November 1844, Louisiana, United States) was a Russian noble and Roman Catholic nun, who converted to Roman Catholicism from Russian Orthodoxy.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrius_Augustine_Gallitzin

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