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Roman Catholic Diocese of Le Mans

Index Roman Catholic Diocese of Le Mans

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Le Mans (Latin: Dioecesis Cenomanensis; French: Diocèse du Mans) is a Roman Catholic diocese of France. [1]

110 relations: Actus pontificum Cenomannis, Aldric of Le Mans, Ancient Diocese of Noyon, Angers, Anjou, Antoninus Pius, Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé, Aurelian, Avesgaud de Bellême, Bertechramnus, Blaise Pascal, Bommer, Brice of Tours, Brittany, Calcination, Cardinal (Catholic Church), Cardinal Richelieu, Carilef, Catholic Church, Catholic Church in France, Catholic Encyclopedia, Charles d'Angennes de Rambouillet, Charles VII of France, Childebert I, Communes of France, Concordat of 1801, Counts and dukes of Maine, Departments of France, Diocese, First Crusade, Fleury Abbey, France, French language, French Revolution, Georges Gilson, Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente, Gervais de Château-du-Loir, Gregory of Tours, Guillaume-Marie-Joseph Labouré, Hermit, Hilary of Poitiers, Hildebert, History of Auvergne, House of Luxembourg, Jacques Faivre (bishop), Jean du Bellay, Jean-Baptiste Bouvier, Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant, Joan of Arc, Julian of Le Mans, ..., Kingdom of France, La Flèche, Landévennec, Latin, Latin Church, Laumer, Le Mans Cathedral, Leonard of Noblac, Liborius of Le Mans, Life of the Virgin, Louis Duchesne, Louis-André de Grimaldi, Marin Mersenne, Mary Magdalene, Maximinus Thrax, Mayenne, Menat, Puy-de-Dôme, Micy Abbey, Minim (religious order), Nicolas Coeffeteau, Normandy, Norsemen, Notre-Dame de la Couture, Paderborn, Papal legate, Paris, Penance, Peregrine (martyr), Perseigne Abbey, Philippe de Luxembourg, Pierre Séguier, Pilgrimage, Pope Gregory IX, Pope Urban II, Précigné, Prince Eugene of Savoy, Relic, René Descartes, Rennes, Richilde of Provence, Robert (bishop of Le Mans), Robert of Arbrissel, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Marseille, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rennes, Dol and Saint-Malo, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sens, Roman Catholic Diocese of Laval, Roman Rite, Saint Dominic, Saint-Brieuc, Saint-Calais, Sarthe, Scholastica, Shrine, Solesmes Abbey, Sulpitius the Pious, Terracotta, Tours, Urbain Grandier, Vendômois, Winwaloe. Expand index (60 more) »

Actus pontificum Cenomannis

The Actus pontificum Cenomannis is a series of short biographies of the Bishops of Le Mans, starting with the first bishop Julian, one of the Seventy Disciples.

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Aldric of Le Mans

Saint Aldric (c. 800 – 7 January 856) was Bishop of Le Mans in the time of Louis the Pious.

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Ancient Diocese of Noyon

The former French Catholic diocese of Noyon lay in the north-east of France, around Noyon.

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Angers

Angers is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris.

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Anjou

Anjou (Andegavia) is a historical province of France straddling the lower Loire River.

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Antoninus Pius

Antoninus Pius (Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius; 19 September 867 March 161 AD), also known as Antoninus, was Roman emperor from 138 to 161.

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Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé

Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé (January 9, 1626 ParisOctober 27, 1700 Soligny-la-Trappe), abbot and founder of the Trappist Cistercians.

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Aurelian

Aurelian (Lucius Domitius Aurelianus Augustus; 9 September 214 or 215September or October 275) was Roman Emperor from 270 to 275.

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Avesgaud de Bellême

Avesgaud (Latin Avesgaudus) (died c. 1036) was a French nobleman, a member of the powerful House of Bellême and was the Bishop of Le Mans from 997 until his death.

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Bertechramnus

Bertechramnus or Bertram of Le Mans was one of the wealthiest bishops of 6th century Gaul.

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Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic theologian.

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Bommer

Bommer may refer to.

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Brice of Tours

Saint Brice of Tours (Brictius; 370 444 AD) was a 5th-century Frankish bishop, the fourth Bishop of Tours, succeeding Martin of Tours in 397.

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Brittany

Brittany (Bretagne; Breizh, pronounced or; Gallo: Bertaèyn, pronounced) is a cultural region in the northwest of France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.

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Calcination

The IUPAC defines calcination as "heating to high temperatures in air or oxygen".

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Cardinal (Catholic Church)

A cardinal (Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalis, literally Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church) is a senior ecclesiastical leader, considered a Prince of the Church, and usually an ordained bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Cardinal Richelieu

Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu and Fronsac (9 September 15854 December 1642), commonly referred to as Cardinal Richelieu (Cardinal de Richelieu), was a French clergyman, nobleman, and statesman.

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Carilef

Carilef (French Calais, Latin Calevisus; died 541) was a hermit who founded the monastery of Aniole.

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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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Catholic Church in France

The Catholic Church in France is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the Pope in Rome.

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Catholic Encyclopedia

The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church, also referred to as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia and the Original Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language encyclopedia published in the United States and designed to serve the Roman Catholic Church.

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Charles d'Angennes de Rambouillet

Charles d'Angennes de Rambouillet (1530–1587) was a French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

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Charles VII of France

Charles VII (22 February 1403 – 22 July 1461), called the Victorious (le Victorieux)Charles VII, King of France, Encyclopedia of the Hundred Years War, ed.

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Childebert I

Childebert I (c. 496 – 13 December 558) was a Frankish King of the Merovingian dynasty, as third of the four sons of Clovis I who shared the kingdom of the Franks upon their father's death in 511.

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Communes of France

The commune is a level of administrative division in the French Republic.

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Concordat of 1801

The Concordat of 1801 was an agreement between Napoleon and Pope Pius VII, signed on 15 July 1801 in Paris.

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Counts and dukes of Maine

This is a list of counts and dukes of Maine, with their capital at Le Mans.

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Departments of France

In the administrative divisions of France, the department (département) is one of the three levels of government below the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the commune.

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Diocese

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

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First Crusade

The First Crusade (1095–1099) was the first of a number of crusades that attempted to recapture the Holy Land, called for by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont in 1095.

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Fleury Abbey

Fleury Abbey (Floriacum) in Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, Loiret, France, founded about 640, is one of the most celebrated Benedictine monasteries of Western Europe, which possesses the relics of St.

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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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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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Georges Gilson

Georges Robert Edmond Gilson (born May 30, 1929) is a French Catholic bishop.

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Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente

Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente (5 May 1872 – 5 May 1959) was a French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Gervais de Château-du-Loir

Gervais de Château-du-Loir (1007–1067) was a French nobleman, bishop, and a powerful figure of his time in Northern France.

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Gregory of Tours

Saint Gregory of Tours (30 November c. 538 – 17 November 594) was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of the area that had been previously referred to as Gaul by the Romans. He was born Georgius Florentius and later added the name Gregorius in honour of his maternal great-grandfather. He is the primary contemporary source for Merovingian history. His most notable work was his Decem Libri Historiarum (Ten Books of Histories), better known as the Historia Francorum (History of the Franks), a title that later chroniclers gave to it, but he is also known for his accounts of the miracles of saints, especially four books of the miracles of St. Martin of Tours. St. Martin's tomb was a major pilgrimage destination in the 6th century, and St. Gregory's writings had the practical effect of promoting this highly organized devotion.

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Guillaume-Marie-Joseph Labouré

Guillaume-Marie-Joseph Labouré (October 27, 1841 – April 21, 1906) was a French archbishop and cardinal.

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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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Hilary of Poitiers

Hilary (Hilarius) of Poitiers (c. 310c. 367) was Bishop of Poitiers and is a Doctor of the Church.

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Hildebert

Hildebert (c. 105518 December 1133) was a French ecclesiastic, hagiographer and theologian.

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History of Auvergne

The history of the Auvergne dates back to the early Middle Ages, when it was a historic province in south central France.

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House of Luxembourg

The House of Luxembourg (Lucemburkové) was a late medieval European royal family, whose members between 1308 and 1437 ruled as King of the Romans and Holy Roman Emperors as well as Kings of Bohemia (Čeští králové, König von Böhmen) and Hungary.

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Jacques Faivre (bishop)

Jacques Faivre, (b. Lyon 11 August 1934, d. 13 August 2010) was the French Catholic bishop of Le Mans from 1997 to 2008.

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Jean du Bellay

Jean du Bellay (1492 – 16 February 1560) was a French diplomat and cardinal, a younger brother of Guillaume du Bellay, and cousin and patron of the poet Joachim du Bellay.

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Jean-Baptiste Bouvier

Jean-Baptiste Bouvier (16 January 1783 - 29 December 1854) was a French theologian and Bishop of Le Mans.

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Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant

Jean-Baptiste Budes, comte de Guébriant (1602 – 17 November 1643) was marshal of France.

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Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc; 6 January c. 1412Modern biographical summaries often assert a birthdate of 6 January for Joan, which is based on a letter from Lord Perceval de Boulainvilliers on 21 July 1429 (see Pernoud's Joan of Arc By Herself and Her Witnesses, p. 98: "Boulainvilliers tells of her birth in Domrémy, and it is he who gives us an exact date, which may be the true one, saying that she was born on the night of Epiphany, 6 January"). – 30 May 1431), nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" (La Pucelle d'Orléans), is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint.

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Julian of Le Mans

Saint Julian of Le Mans (Saint Julien du Mans; 3rd century; perhaps 4th century) is a saint venerated in both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church, honored as the first bishop of Le Mans.

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Kingdom of France

The Kingdom of France (Royaume de France) was a medieval and early modern monarchy in Western Europe.

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La Flèche

La Flèche is a town and commune in the French department of Sarthe, in the Pays de la Loire region in the Loire Valley.

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Landévennec

Landévennec is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Latin Church

The Latin Church, sometimes called the Western Church, is the largest particular church sui iuris in full communion with the Pope and the rest of the Catholic Church, tracing its history to the earliest days of Christianity.

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Laumer

Laumer is a name which may refer to.

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Le Mans Cathedral

Le Mans Cathedral (French: Cathédrale St-Julien du Mans) is a Catholic church situated in Le Mans, France.

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Leonard of Noblac

Leonard of Noblac (or of Limoges or Noblet; also known as Lienard, Linhart, Leonhard, Léonard, Leonardo, Annard) (died 559 AD), is a Frankish saint closely associated with the town and abbey of Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat, in Haute-Vienne, in the Limousin (region) of France.

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Liborius of Le Mans

Liborius of Le Mans (c. 348–397) was the second Bishop of Le Mans.

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Life of the Virgin

The Life of the Virgin, showing narrative scenes from the life of Mary, the mother of Jesus, is a common subject for pictorial cycles in Christian art, often complementing, or forming part of, a cycle on the Life of Christ.

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Louis Duchesne

Louis Marie Olivier Duchesne (13 September 1843 – 21 April 1922) was a French priest, philologist, teacher and a critical historian of Christianity and Roman Catholic liturgy and institutions.

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Louis-André de Grimaldi

Louis-André Grimaldi d'Antibes (17 December 173628 December 1804) was a French nobleman and bishop.

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Marin Mersenne

Marin Mersenne, Marin Mersennus or le Père Mersenne (8 September 1588 – 1 September 1648) was a French polymath, whose works touched a wide variety of fields.

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Mary Magdalene

Saint Mary Magdalene, sometimes called simply the Magdalene, was a Jewish woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion, burial, and resurrection.

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Maximinus Thrax

Maximinus Thrax (Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus Augustus; c. 173 – May 238), also known as Maximinus I, was Roman Emperor from 235 to 238.

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Mayenne

Mayenne is a department in northwest France named after the Mayenne River.

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Menat, Puy-de-Dôme

Menat is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France.

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Micy Abbey

Micy Abbey or the Abbey of Saint-Mesmin, Micy (Abbaye Saint-Mesmin de Micy), sometimes referred to as Micy, was a Benedictine abbey near Orléans at the confluence of the Loire and the Loiret, located on the territory of the present commune of Saint-Pryvé-Saint-Mesmin.

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Minim (religious order)

The Minims (also called the Minimi or Order of Minims, abbreviated O.M.) are members of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy.

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Nicolas Coeffeteau

Nicolas Coeffeteau (1574 – 21 April 1623) was a French theologian, poet and historian born at Saint-Calais.

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie,, Norman: Normaundie, from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is one of the 18 regions of France, roughly referring to the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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Norsemen

Norsemen are a group of Germanic people who inhabited Scandinavia and spoke what is now called the Old Norse language between 800 AD and c. 1300 AD.

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Notre-Dame de la Couture

Notre-Dame de la Couture (église de la Couture) is a church in Le Mans.

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Paderborn

Paderborn is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district.

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Papal legate

A woodcut showing Henry II of England greeting the pope's legate. A papal legate or Apostolic legate (from the Ancient Roman title legatus) is a personal representative of the pope to foreign nations, or to some part of the Catholic Church.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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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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Peregrine (martyr)

St.

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Perseigne Abbey

Perseigne Abbey (Abbaye de Perseigne) is a former Cistercian abbey, formally established in 1145 on land given by William III, Count of Ponthieu, and suppressed in 1791 during the French Revolution.

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Philippe de Luxembourg

Philippe de Luxembourg (1445 – 2 June 1519) was a French Cardinal He was bishop of Le Mans in 1476.

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Pierre Séguier

Pierre Séguier (28 May 1588 – 28 January 1672) was a French statesman, chancellor of France from 1635.

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Pilgrimage

A pilgrimage is a journey or search of moral or spiritual significance.

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Pope Gregory IX

Pope Gregory IX Gregorius IX (born Ugolino di Conti; c. 1145 or before 1170 – 22 August 1241), was Pope from 19 March 1227 to his death in 1241.

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Pope Urban II

Pope Urban II (Urbanus II; – 29 July 1099), born Odo of Châtillon or Otho de Lagery, was Pope from 12 March 1088 to his death in 1099.

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Précigné

Précigné is a commune in the Sarthe ''département'' in the region of Pays-de-la-Loire in north-western France.

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Prince Eugene of Savoy

Prince Eugene of Savoy (French: François-Eugène de Savoie, Italian: Principe Eugenio di Savoia-Carignano, German: Prinz Eugen von Savoyen; 18 October 1663 – 21 April 1736) was a general of the Imperial Army and statesman of the Holy Roman Empire and the Archduchy of Austria and one of the most successful military commanders in modern European history, rising to the highest offices of state at the Imperial court in Vienna.

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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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René Descartes

René Descartes (Latinized: Renatus Cartesius; adjectival form: "Cartesian"; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist.

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Rennes

Rennes (Roazhon,; Gallo: Resnn) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine.

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Richilde of Provence

Richilde of the Ardennes (or Richilde of Provence) (ca. 845 – 2 June 910, Kingdom of Lower Burgundy) was the second consort of Charles the Bald, King and Emperor of the Franks.

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Robert (bishop of Le Mans)

Robert (died 883/85) was the bishop of Le Mans from 857.

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Robert of Arbrissel

Robert of Arbrissel (1045 – 1116) was an itinerant preacher, and founder of the abbey of Fontevrault.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Marseille

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Marseille (Latin: Archidioecesis Massiliensis; French: Archidiocèse de Marseille) is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rennes, Dol and Saint-Malo

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rennes, Dol, and Saint-Malo (Latin: Archidioecesis Rhedonensis, Dolensis et Sancti Maclovii; French: Archidiocèse de Rennes, Dol et Saint-Malo) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sens

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sens and Auxerre (Latin: Archidioecesis Senonensis et Antissiodorensis; French: Archidiocèse de Sens et Auxerre) is a Latin Rite Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in France.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Laval

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Laval (Latin: Dioecesis Valleguidonensis; French: Diocèse de Laval) is a Roman Catholic Latin Rite diocese in France.

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Roman Rite

The Roman Rite (Ritus Romanus) is the most widespread liturgical rite in the Catholic Church, as well as the most popular and widespread Rite in all of Christendom, and is one of the Western/Latin rites used in the Western or Latin Church.

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Saint Dominic

Saint Dominic (Santo Domingo), also known as Dominic of Osma and Dominic of Caleruega, often called Dominic de Guzmán and Domingo Félix de Guzmán (8 August 1170 – 6 August 1221), was a Castilian priest and founder of the Dominican Order.

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Saint-Brieuc

Saint-Brieuc (Breton: Sant-Brieg, Gallo: Saent-Berioec) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France.

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Saint-Calais

Saint-Calais is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays-de-la-Loire in north-western France.

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Sarthe

Sarthe is a French department situated in the Grand-Ouest of the country.

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Scholastica

Scholastica (c. 480 – 10 February 543) is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches.

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Shrine

A shrine (scrinium "case or chest for books or papers"; Old French: escrin "box or case") is a holy or sacred place, which is dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, daemon, or similar figure of awe and respect, at which they are venerated or worshipped.

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Solesmes Abbey

Solesmes Abbey or St.

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Sulpitius the Pious

Sulpitius (or Sulpicius) the Pious or "the Débonnaire" (died 17 January 644) was a 7th-century bishop of Bourges and saint.

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Terracotta

Terracotta, terra cotta or terra-cotta (Italian: "baked earth", from the Latin terra cocta), a type of earthenware, is a clay-based unglazed or glazed ceramic, where the fired body is porous.

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Tours

Tours is a city located in the centre-west of France.

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Urbain Grandier

Urbain Grandier (born in 1590 in Bouère, Mayenne – died on 18 August 1634 in Loudun) was a French Catholic priest who was burned at the stake after being convicted of witchcraft, following the events of the so-called "Loudun Possessions".

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Vendômois

The Vendômois is a traditional area of France equivalent to the arrondissement of Vendôme, to the north of Loir-et-Cher, and on both sides of Loir.

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Winwaloe

Saint Winwaloe (Gwenole; Guénolé; Winwallus or Winwalœus; – 3 March 532) was the founder and first abbot of Landévennec Abbey (literally "Lann of Venec"), also known as the Monastery of Winwaloe.

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Redirects here:

Bishop of Le Mans, Bishop of Mans, Bishopric of Le Mans, Bishopric of Mans, Diocese of Le Mans, Diocese of Mans, Diocese of le mans, Episcopal see of Le Mans, See of Le Mans, See of Mans.

References

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

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