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Holy Roman Catholic faith

Holy Roman Catholic faith. Print showing biblical scenes related to the Roman Catholic faith, includes text of prayers, such as The Lord's Prayer, The Apostles Creed, The Confiteor, as well as The Ten Commandments of God, Virtues, Mysteries of the Rosary, and the Eight Beatitudes, also portraits of saints and of Pope Pius IX. Date c1871

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Saint Francis of Assisi

Saint Francis of Assisi (Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone 1182-1226) - Catholic deacon and preacher and founder of the Order of Friars Minor, more commonly known as the Franciscans. Most well known as the patron saint of animals

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Assisi, Bernardone, Birds, Catholic, Cross, Deacon, Di, Founder, Francesco, Francis, Franciscans, Friars, Giovanni, Halo, Historical, History, Holding, Minor, Order, Patron, Pigeon, Preacher, Saint, Seated, Sitting, Wren

Evelyn Waugh gets married

Photograph of English novelist and satirist, Evelyn Waugh (1903 -1966) on his marriage to Laura Herbert, which took place at the Church of the Assumption Warwick Street, London. Waugh had a brief and unhappy marriage to Evelyn Gardner which lasted just two years (they divorced in 1930) and then converted to Catholicism. Her married Laura, a Catholic, in 1937. The couple remained together until Waugh's death and had seven children. Catholicism would become a key theme in Waugh's novels

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