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  • Home -- Molfetta, Italy -- is a long way away, and they don't miss a beat when they say they miss it.

    Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The On-Beat Brothers Nancy Ruhling 2011

  • Remember the Molfetta twins, JP and Rich, from this season of American Idol.

    Noooo!!!! (Project Runway) drewan 2005

  • We made it to Molfetta, knocked at the door of a white house with trees in front, and Wolfe spoke through a crack to the man who unlocked it, and handed him a slip of paper.

    The Black Mountain Stout, Rex, 1886-1975 1954

  • A road going to Molfetta, a fishing village two miles away if we had been landed in the right place, was supposed to be only two hundred yards from the shore, and we found it, turned left, and trudged along in the rain.

    The Black Mountain Stout, Rex, 1886-1975 1954

  • God honored him with so many miracles during his lifetime and after his death, which happened in the year 1232, that Pope Gregory IX had information taken on the subject, in 1236, through the Bishops of Malfi, Molfetta, and Venosa, and permitted these three dioceses to allot to him an office, which is now said by the whole Order of Friars Minor.

    The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Father Candide Chalippe

  • God honored him with so many miracles during his lifetime and after his death, which happened in the year 1232, that Pope Gregory IX had information taken on the subject, in 1236, through the Bishops of Malfi, Molfetta, and Venosa, and permitted these three dioceses to allot to him an office, which is now said by the whole Order of Friars Minor.

    The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi Chalippe, Father Candide 1917

  • Italy, on the Adriatic Sea; its origin is unknown, but many objects of the neolithic, bronze, and the Mycenæan epoch have been found at a place called Pulo, which shows that the site of Molfetta was inhabited in prehistoric times.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Molfetta is a city of the province of Bari, in Apulia, southern

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • Savona in 1467, but exchanged this see in 1472 for that of Molfetta in south-eastern Italy and was raised to the cardinalate the following year.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • The Diocese of Molfetta contains 4 parishes; 80 secular and 6 regular priests; 42,000 Catholics.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

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