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  • There's a greatniece of Mother Mariana, daughter to a cloth merchant here in Shrewsbury, who's coming to take the veil among us.

    A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old 2010

  • A greatniece of St. Edward the Confessor, Margaret, whose personality stands out clearly before us in the pages of her biography by her confessor Turgot, was a woman not only of saintly life but of strong character who exercised the strongest influence on the Scottish

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • It was not often that the old lady exercised authority; but on that afternoon the famous New York visitor was just as much an audience for Hannah as for Hannah's greatniece.

    Leonora Arnold Bennett 1899

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