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Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day (French: Fête de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste, la Saint-Jean, Fête nationale du Québec), also known in English as St John the Baptist Day, is a holiday celebrated on June 24 in the Canadian province of Quebec.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint-Jean–Longueuil (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Ioannis–Longoliensis) is a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Montréal in (mostly francophone) Québec, southeastern Canada. Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathédrale Saint-Jean-l’Évangéliste dedicated to John the Evangelist, in Saint-Jean-sur ...
The site had been the castle of the lords of Heverlee since the 12th century, but this family became impoverished and had to sell the site in 1445 to the Croÿ family from Picardy. Antoine I de Croÿ demolished the medieval castle and started works to build the current château in 1455 on the site, of which he destroyed all but one tower.
Saint-Jean-de-la-Léqueraye, in the Eure department; Saint-Jean-de-la-Motte, in the Sarthe department; Saint-Jean-de-la-Neuville, in the Seine-Maritime department; Saint-Jean-de-la-Porte, in the Savoie department; Saint-Jean-de-la-Rivière, in the Manche department; Saint-Jean-de-la-Ruelle, in the Loiret department; Saint-Jean-de-Laur, in the ...
Stained glass windows,Collection Cinquantenaire, Brussels. Arms of abbot Guillelmus Herent (1643), Brussels. The abbey was founded in 1129 by Duke Godfrey, surnamed "Barbatus" ("the Bearded"), who possessed an immense park near Leuven and had invited the Premonstratensians to take possession of a small church he had built there.
Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Quebec, a former municipality in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec that is now part of Mont-Joli, Quebec Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Restigouche, New Brunswick , Canada Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society (Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste), institution in Quebec dedicated to protection of francophone interests
The Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Amérique (USJB), also referred to by its member organizations as the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Amérique (lit. "Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of America"), was a Franco-American benefit society first organized in 1899 when the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Holyoke (French: Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Holyoke) invited several other so-named independent ...
The Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society (French: Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste, pronounced [sɔsjete sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ batist]) is an institution in the Canadian province of Quebec dedicated to the protection of Quebec francophone interests and to the promotion of Quebec sovereignism. It is known as the oldest patriotic association in French North America. [1]