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Gangulphus

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Saint Gangulphus of Burgundy (died May 11, 760 AD) is venerated as a martyr by the Catholic Church. [1]

47 relations: Adultery, Agaunum, Anointing of the sick, Arrondissement of Langres, Avallon, Bamberg, Burgundy, Catholic Church, Charity (practice), Courtier, Decapitation, Eastern Orthodox Church, England, Fladungen, France, Franconia, Frisia, Germany, God, Gospel, Hermit, Hollfeld, Hrotsvitha, Italy, Libertine, Low Countries, Martyr, Martyrology, Milseburg, Miracle, Penance, Pepin the Short, Priest, Relic, Rhön Mountains, Richard Barham, Roman Catholic Diocese of Langres, Saint-Gingolph, Switzerland, The Ingoldsby Legends, Theban Legion, Thigh, Thuringia, Upper Swabia, Varennes-sur-Amance, Vézelay, Wolpertswende.

Adultery

Adultery (from Latin adulterium) is extramarital sex that is considered objectionable on social, religious, moral, or legal grounds.

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Agaunum

Roman Agaunum, the modern Saint-Maurice in the canton Valais in southwesternmost Switzerland, was a minor post confined between the Rhône and the mountains along the well-travelled road that led from Roman Genava, modern Geneva, over the Alps by the Great St. Bernard Pass to Italy.

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Anointing of the sick

Anointing of the sick, known also by other names, is a form of religious anointing or "unction" (an older term with the same meaning) for the benefit of a sick person.

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Arrondissement of Langres

The arrondissement of Langres is an arrondissement of France in the Haute-Marne department in the Grand Est region.

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Avallon

Avallon is a town (French: commune) in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in central-eastern France.

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Bamberg

Bamberg is a town in Upper Franconia, Germany, on the river Regnitz close to its confluence with the river Main.

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Burgundy

Burgundy (Bourgogne) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France.

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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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Charity (practice)

The practice of charity means the voluntary giving of help to those in need, as a humanitarian act.

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Courtier

A courtier is a person who is often in attendance at the court of a monarch or other royal personage.

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Decapitation

Decapitation is the complete separation of the head from the body.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, also known as the Orthodox Church, or officially as the Orthodox Catholic Church, is the second-largest Christian Church, with over 250 million members.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Fladungen

Fladungen is a town in the Rhön-Grabfeld district, in Bavaria, Germany.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Franconia

Franconia (Franken, also called Frankenland) is a region in Germany, characterised by its culture and language, and may be roughly associated with the areas in which the East Franconian dialect group, locally referred to as fränkisch, is spoken.

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Frisia

Frisia (Fryslân, Dutch and Friesland) is a coastal region along the southeastern corner of the North Sea in what today is mostly a large part of the Netherlands, including modern Friesland, and smaller parts of northern Germany.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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God

In monotheistic thought, God is conceived of as the Supreme Being and the principal object of faith.

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Gospel

Gospel is the Old English translation of Greek εὐαγγέλιον, evangelion, meaning "good news".

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Hermit

A hermit (adjectival form: eremitic or hermitic) is a person who lives in seclusion from society, usually for religious reasons.

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Hollfeld

Hollfeld is a town in the district of Bayreuth, in Bavaria, Germany.

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Hrotsvitha

Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim (Hrotsvitha Gandeshemensis; c. 935 – after 973) was a 10th-century German secular canoness, dramatist and poetess who lived at Gandersheim Abbey (in modern-day Bad Gandersheim, Lower Saxony), established by the Ottonian dynasty.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Libertine

A libertine is one devoid of most moral or sexual restraints, which are seen as unnecessary or undesirable, especially one who ignores or even spurns accepted morals and forms of behaviour sanctified by the larger society.

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Low Countries

The Low Countries or, in the geographic sense of the term, the Netherlands (de Lage Landen or de Nederlanden, les Pays Bas) is a coastal region in northwestern Europe, consisting especially of the Netherlands and Belgium, and the low-lying delta of the Rhine, Meuse, Scheldt, and Ems rivers where much of the land is at or below sea level.

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Martyr

A martyr (Greek: μάρτυς, mártys, "witness"; stem μάρτυρ-, mártyr-) is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, refusing to renounce, or refusing to advocate a belief or cause as demanded by an external party.

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Martyrology

A martyrology is a catalogue or list of martyrs and other saints and beati arranged in the calendar order of their anniversaries or feasts.

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Milseburg

The Milseburg is an extinct volcano and at above sea level the second highest elevation in the Hessian part of the Rhön Mountains, Germany.

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Miracle

A miracle is an event not explicable by natural or scientific laws.

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Penance

Penance is repentance of sins as well as an alternate name for the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox sacrament of Reconciliation or Confession.

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Pepin the Short

Pepin the Short (Pippin der Kurze, Pépin le Bref, c. 714 – 24 September 768) was the King of the Franks from 751 until his death.

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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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Relic

In religion, a relic usually consists of the physical remains of a saint or the personal effects of the saint or venerated person preserved for purposes of veneration as a tangible memorial.

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Rhön Mountains

The Rhön Mountains (German: Die Rhön) are a group of low mountains (or Mittelgebirge) in central Germany, located around the border area where the states of Hesse, Bavaria and Thuringia come together.

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Richard Barham

Richard Harris Barham (6 December 1788 – 17 June 1845) was an English cleric of the Church of England, a novelist and a humorous poet.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Langres

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Langres (Latin: Dioecesis Lingonensis; French: Diocèse de Langres) is a Roman Catholic diocese comprising the département of Haute-Marne in France.

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Saint-Gingolph

Saint-Gingolph is a small town situated on the south bank of Lake Geneva (Lac Léman).

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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The Ingoldsby Legends

The Ingoldsby Legends (full title: The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels) is a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry written supposedly by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of an English clergyman named Richard Harris Barham.

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Theban Legion

The Theban Legion (also known as the Martyrs of Agaunum) figures in Christian hagiography as an entire Roman legion — of "six thousand six hundred and sixty-six men" — who had converted en masse to Christianity and were martyred together, in 286, according to the hagiographies of Saint Maurice, the chief among the Legion's saints.

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Thigh

In human anatomy, the thigh is the area between the hip (pelvis) and the knee.

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Thuringia

The Free State of Thuringia (Freistaat Thüringen) is a federal state in central Germany.

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Upper Swabia

Upper Swabia (Oberschwaben or Schwäbisches Oberland) is a region in Germany in the federal states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria.

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Varennes-sur-Amance

Varennes-sur-Amance is a commune in the Haute-Marne department in north-eastern France.

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Vézelay

Vézelay is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France.

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Wolpertswende

Wolpertswende is a town in the district of Ravensburg in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.

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Gangolf, Gangulfus, Gengulf, Gengulph, Gengulphus, Saint Gangulphus, St. Gangolf.

References

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

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