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  2. Religious order (Catholic) - Wikipedia

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    An exception is the Order of Saint Benedict which is not a religious order in this technical sense, because it has a system of independent houses, meaning that each abbey is autonomous. However, the constitutions governing the order's global independent houses and its distinct Benedictine congregations (of which there are twenty) were approved ...

  3. Cuius regio, eius religio - Wikipedia

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    Peace of Augsburg; Date: 1555: Location: Augsburg: Participants: Ferdinand, King of the Romans acting for Charles V.Delegates from the Imperial Estates: Outcome: The principle Cuius regio, eius religio allowed princes to adopt either Catholicism or the Lutheran Augsburg Confession and enforce religious conformity within their state.

  4. Monsignor - Wikipedia

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    Monsignor (/ m ɒ n ˈ s iː n j ər /; Italian: monsignore [monsiɲˈɲoːre]) is a form of address or title for certain members of the clergy in the Catholic Church.Monsignor is the apocopic form of the Italian monsignore, meaning "my lord".

  5. Religion - Wikipedia

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    The origin of religious belief is an open question, with possible explanations including awareness of individual death, a sense of community, and dreams. [9] Religions have sacred histories , narratives , and mythologies , preserved in oral traditions, sacred texts , symbols , and holy places , that may attempt to explain the origin of life ...

  6. English relative clauses - Wikipedia

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    The basic grammatical rules for the formation of relative clauses in English are given here. [2] More details can be found in the article on who.. The basic relative pronouns are considered to be who, which and that, but an alternative analysis of that as a relativizer is presented in a succeeding section.

  7. Romance copula - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish copulas are ser and estar.The latter developed as follows: stare → *estare → estar. The copula ser developed from two Latin verbs. Thus its inflectional paradigm is a combination: most of it derives from svm (to be) but the present subjunctive appears to come from sedeo (to sit) via the Old Spanish verb seer.

  8. Subject pronoun - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a subject pronoun is a personal pronoun that is used as the subject of a verb. [1] Subject pronouns are usually in the nominative case for languages with a nominative–accusative alignment pattern.

  9. Religious name - Wikipedia

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    In the Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholicism, converts often take a new name at the time of their reception into the church.When deciding on a name for their child, Orthodox parents will often name the child after a saint whose feast day falls on either the day of the child's birth or the day of its baptism.