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  2. List of Catholic saints from Oceania - Wikipedia

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    Some of these people were born, died, or lived their religious life in any of the states or territories of Oceania. The region of Oceania was the last continent where the Catholic Church arrived. Consequently, it is the continent with the fewest Catholic saints. Mother Mary of the Cross (Mary MacKillop), the first saint from Australia.

  3. Lists of saints - Wikipedia

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    The Martyrology of Tallaght is an Irish martyrology from the late eighth century. It lists of hundreds of saints from Ireland and beyond. [1]In various religions, a saint is a revered person who has achieved an eminent status of holiness, known as sainthood.

  4. Indigenous peoples of Oceania - Wikipedia

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    Oceania is generally considered the least decolonized region in the world. In his 1993 book France and the South Pacific since 1940, Robert Aldrich commented: . With the ending of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands became a 'commonwealth' of the United States, and the new republics of the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia signed ...

  5. List of Australian saints - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of Roman Catholic and Orthodox canonized saints and beatified people of Australia.. St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney. The list includes all Catholic saints, blesseds, and Servants of God with Australian connections, either because they were of Australian origin and ethnicity, or because they travelled to Australia from their own homeland and became noted in their hagiography ...

  6. Category:Christianity in Oceania - Wikipedia

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    Christianity in Oceania by country (9 C) * Oceanian Christians (24 C) A. Christianity in American Samoa (6 C, 3 P) F. Christianity in French Polynesia (5 C, 1 P) G.

  7. List of South American saints - Wikipedia

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    The following is the list of saints, including the year in which they were canonized and the country or countries with which they are associated. St. Louis Bertrand (1526–1581), Dominican priest (Colombia) Beatified: 19 July 1608 by Pope Paul V; Canonized: 12 April 1671 by Pope Clement X; St. Rose of Lima (1586–1617), Dominican tertiary (Peru)

  8. Patron saints of places - Wikipedia

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    Mary, mother of Jesus Mary is the patron saint of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando , [ 116 ] which Bishop William Donald Borders claimed included the moon due to a technicality in the 1917 Code of Canon Law which supposedly expanded the diocese's territory to include the moon following the flight of Apollo 11 .

  9. Biblical names in their native languages - Wikipedia

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    Meaning: Is Born [5] Nazareth (This is the village that Jesus grew up in. Although Bethlehem is the biblical birthplace of Jesus, some scholars believe that Jesus was born in Nazareth.) Village 2200 BC: Aramaic: נצרת Pronunciation: Naw-saw-reth Nebuchadnezzar II (son of Nabopolassar) (King of Babylonia) Person 642 BC: 562 BC: Akkadian: