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This became the mother-house of a new congregation, the Canons Regular of St. Genevieve, which spread widely over France.
January 3rd, Feast Day of Ste Geneviève, Patron Saint of Paris de Brantigny........................ 2009
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This became the mother-house of a new congregation, the Canons Regular of St. Genevieve, which spread widely over France.
Archive 2008-12-28 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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This became the mother-house of a new congregation, the Canons Regular of St. Genevieve, which spread widely over France.
Archive 2007-12-23 de Brantigny........................ 2007
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This became the mother-house of a new congregation, the Canons Regular of St. Genevieve, which spread widely over France.
Ste Geneviève, Feast Day, January 3rd de Brantigny........................ 2007
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Benedictines of Durham, was supplied with books from the mother-house, lists of which have been preserved; and subsequently
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Young Mark was gone from his mother-house and from his flock at Saint Giles, gone to the household of the bishop of Lichfield, with Leoric Aspley's endowment to see him through his studies, and the goal of all his longings shining distant and clear before him, the priesthood for which God had designed him.
The Pilgrim of Hate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1984
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The eminent Dr. Ricord, who had been an eyewitness of the devotion of the Brothers, was charged with the office of fastening the cross on the cassock of Frère Philippe, in the great hall of the mother-house.
The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various
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Congregation, it took the name of this mother-house.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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These monasteries have been all united in that of St. Scholastica, which remains in a very flourishing condition, and is regarded as the mother-house of the whole Order, being certainly more ancient than that of Mount Cassino.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler
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The elder brother (they are both priests now) superintends the order in Europe: the younger resides at the mother-house at Jerusalem.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various
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