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Our Lady of Charity, the Glossary

Our Lady of Charity (Nostræ Dominæ Charitatis) is a celebrated Marian title of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated in many Catholic countries.^[1]

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Christianity in Cuba

Agoo

Agoo, officially the Municipality of Agoo (Ili ti Agoo; Baley na Agoo; Bayan ng Agoo), is a 1st class municipality in the province of La Union, Philippines.

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Antioch on the Orontes (Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou)Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Δάφνῃ "Antioch on Daphne"; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ Μεγάλη "Antioch the Great"; Antiochia ad Orontem; Անտիոք Antiokʽ; ܐܢܛܝܘܟܝܐ Anṭiokya; אנטיוכיה, Anṭiyokhya; أنطاكية, Anṭākiya; انطاکیه; Antakya.

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Bantay

Bantay, officially the Municipality of Bantay (Ili ti Bantay; Bayan ng Bantay), is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, Philippines.

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Bantay Church

Saint Augustine of Hippo Parish Church, also known as the Archdiocesan Shrine of Nuestra Señora de la Caridad and Bantay Church, is a Roman Catholic church in Bantay, Ilocos Sur in the Philippines.

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Basilicas in the Catholic Church

Basilicas are Catholic church buildings that have a designation, conferring special privileges, given by the Pope.

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Benedictines

The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (Ordo Sancti Benedicti, abbreviated as OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict.

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Bernardin Gantin

Bernardin Gantin (8 May 1922 – 13 May 2008) was a Beninese prelate of the Catholic Church who held senior positions in the Roman Curia for twenty years and the highest position in the College of Cardinals for nine years.

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Biscayne Bay

Biscayne Bay is a lagoon with characteristics of an estuary located on the Atlantic coast of South Florida.

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Calendar of saints

The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint.

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Calixto García

Calixto García Íñiguez (August 4, 1839 – December 11, 1898) was a Cuban general in three Cuban uprisings, part of the Cuban War for Independence: the Ten Years' War, the Little War, and the War of 1895, itself sometimes called the Cuban War for Independence, which bled into the Spanish–American War, ultimately resulting in national independence for Cuba.

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Canonical coronation

A canonical coronation (Coronatio Canonica) is a pious institutional act of the pope, duly expressed in a formal decree of a papal bull, in which the pope bestows the pontifical right to impose an ornamental crown, a diadem or an aureole to an image of Christ, Mary or Joseph that is widely venerated in a particular diocese or locality.

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Carlos Manuel de Céspedes

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo (18 April 1819, Bayamo, Spanish Cuba – 27 February 1874, San Lorenzo, Spanish Cuba) was a Cuban revolutionary hero and First President of Cuba in Arms in 1868.

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Cartagena, Spain

Cartagena is a Spanish city and a major naval station on the Mediterranean coast, south-eastern Iberia.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Catholic Church by country

The Catholic Church is "the Catholic Communion of Churches, both Roman and Eastern, or Oriental, that are in full communion with the Bishop of Rome (the pope)." The church is also known by members as the People of God, the Body of Christ, the "Temple of the Holy Spirit", among other names.

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Charles IV of Spain

Charles IV (Carlos Antonio Pascual Francisco Javier Juan Nepomuceno José Januario Serafín Diego de Borbón y Sajonia; 11 November 1748 – 20 January 1819) was King of Spain and ruler of the Spanish Empire from 1788 to 1808.

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Christ Child

The Christ Child, also known as Divine Infant, Baby Jesus, Infant Jesus, the Divine Child, Child Jesus, the Holy Child, Divino Niño, and Santo Niño in Hispanic nations, refers to Jesus Christ from his nativity until age 12.

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Cistercians

The Cistercians, officially the Order of Cistercians ((Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contributions of the highly-influential Bernard of Clairvaux, known as the Latin Rule.

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Claretians

The Claretians, officially named the Congregation of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Congregatio Missionariorum Filiorum Immaculati Cordis Beatae Mariae Virginis; abbreviated CMF), is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of Pontifical Right for men headquartered in Rome.

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Cluny Abbey

Cluny Abbey (formerly also Cluni or Clugny) is a former Benedictine monastery in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire, France.

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Cobre mine, Cuba

The Cobre mine was a copper mine in Cuba, the oldest in the new world.

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Coconut Grove

Coconut Grove, also known colloquially as “The Grove,” is an affluent and the oldest continuously inhabited neighborhood of Miami in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.

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Cuban exile

A Cuban exile is a person who emigrated from Cuba in the Cuban exodus.

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Cuban War of Independence

The Cuban War of Independence, also known in Cuba as The Necessary War (La Guerra Necesaria), fought from 1895 to 1898, was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Ten Years' War (1868–1878) and the Little War (1879–1880).

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Cubans

Cubans (Cubanos) are people from Cuba or people with Cuban citizenship.

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Egidio Vagnozzi

Egidio Vagnozzi (26 February 1906 – 26 December 1980) was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church.

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El Cobre, Cuba

El Cobre is a Cuban town and consejo popular ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Santiago de Cuba, capital of the homonym province, with a population of about 7,000.

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist.

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Eucharistic congress

In the Catholic Church, a Eucharistic congress is a gathering of clergy, religious, and laity to bear witness to the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, which is an important Catholic doctrine.

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Eugenius II of Toledo

Saint Eugenius II (died 13 November 657), sometimes called Eugenius the Younger as the successor of Eugenius I, was Archbishop of Toledo from 647 until his death.

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Gardens of Vatican City

The Gardens of Vatican City (Horti Civitatis Vaticanae), also informally known as the Vatican Gardens (Giardini Vaticani) in Vatican City, are private urban gardens and parks which cover more than half of the country, located in the west of the territory and owned by the Pope.

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General Archive of the Indies

The Archivo General de Indias (standard abbreviation AGI), often simply called the Archive of the Indies was created by Carlos III and inaugurated in 1785.

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Golden Rose

The Golden Rose is a gold ornament, which popes of the Catholic Church have traditionally blessed annually.

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Huamantla

Huamantla is a small city in the municipality of the same name in the eastern half of the Mexican state of Tlaxcala.

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Illescas, Toledo

Illescas is a town and municipality of Spain located in the province of Toledo, Castilla–La Mancha.

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Ilocano language

Ilocano (also Ilokano;; Ilocano: Pagsasao nga Ilokano) is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines, primarily by Ilocano people and as a lingua franca by the Igorot people and also by the native settlers of Cagayan Valley.

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John Eudes

John Eudes, CIM (Jean Eudes; 14 November 1601 – 19 August 1680) was a French Roman Catholic priest and the founder of both the Order of Our Lady of Charity in 1641 and Congregation of Jesus and Mary, also known as The Eudists, in 1643.

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La Charité-sur-Loire

La Charité-sur-Loire, known simply as La Charité until 1961, is a riverside commune in the western part of the French department of Nièvre.

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Madonna (art)

In art, a Madonna is a representation of Mary, either alone or with her child Jesus.

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Mambises

The mambises were the guerrilla independence soldiers who fought for Cuba's independence from Spain in the Ten Years' War and Cuban War of Independence.

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Marian apparition

A Marian apparition is a reported supernatural appearance by Mary the mother of Jesus, or a series of related such appearances during a period of time.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus.

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Mass in the Catholic Church

The Mass is the central liturgical service of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church, in which bread and wine are consecrated and become the body and blood of Christ.

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Miami Stadium

Miami Stadium, later officially known as Bobby Maduro Miami Stadium, was a baseball stadium in Miami, Florida.

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Monsignor

Monsignor (monsignore) is a form of address or title for certain members of the clergy in the Catholic Church.

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Moschiano

Moschiano is a town and comune in the province of Avellino, Campania, southern Italy.

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Mulatto

Mulatto is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry.

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National Basilica Sanctuary of the Charity del Cobre

The Basílica Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Cobre (National Shrine Basilica of Our Lady of Charity del Cobre) is a Roman Catholic minor basilica dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary located in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.

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Nativity of Mary

The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Nativity of Mary, Marymas or the Birth of the Virgin Mary, refers to a Christian feast day celebrating the birth of Mary, mother of Jesus.

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Nipe Bay

Nipe Bay (Bahía de Nipe) is a bay on the northern coast of Cuba in Holguín Province, part of the former Oriente Province.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).

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Nola

Nola is a town and a municipality in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Campania, southern Italy.

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Nuncio

An apostolic nuncio (nuntius apostolicus; also known as a papal nuncio or simply as a nuncio) is an ecclesiastical diplomat, serving as an envoy or a permanent diplomatic representative of the Holy See to a state or to an international organization.

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Order of Our Lady of Charity

The Order of Our Lady of Charity (also known as Order of Our Lady of Charity of the Refuge) is a Roman Catholic monastic order, founded in 1641 by Catholic saint, John Eudes in Caen, France.

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Oriente Province

Oriente ("East") was the easternmost province of Cuba until 1976.

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Orisha

Orishas (singular: orisha) are divine spirits that play a key role in the Yoruba religion of West Africa and several religions of the African diaspora that derive from it, such as Haitian Vaudou, Cuban, Dominican and Puerto Rican Santería and Brazilian Candomblé.

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Oshun

Oshun (also Ọṣun, Ochún, and Oxúm) is the Yoruba orisha associated with love, sexuality, fertility, femininity, water, destiny, divination, purity, and beauty, and the Osun River, and of wealth and propersity in Voodoo.

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Papal bull

A papal bull is a type of public decree, letters patent, or charter issued by a pope of the Catholic Church.

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Papal legate

A woodcut showing Henry II of England greeting the Pope's legate. A papal legate or apostolic legate (from the ancient Roman title legatus) is a personal representative of the Pope to foreign nations, to some other part of the Catholic Church, or representatives of the state or monarchy.

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Paul the Apostle

Paul (Koinē Greek: Παῦλος, romanized: Paûlos), also named Saul of Tarsus (Aramaic: ܫܐܘܠ, romanized: Šāʾūl), commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle (AD) who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world.

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Philip II of Spain

Philip II (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent (Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Pietà

The Pietà (meaning "pity", "compassion") is a subject in Christian art depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus Christ after his Descent from the Cross.

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Pope Benedict XV

Pope Benedict XV (Latin: Benedictus XV; Benedetto XV), born Giacomo Paolo Giovanni Battista della Chiesa (21 November 185422 January 1922), was head of the Catholic Church from 1914 until his death in January 1922.

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Pope Benedict XVI

Pope BenedictXVI (Benedictus PP.; Benedetto XVI; Benedikt XVI; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger; 16 April 1927 – 31 December 2022) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation on 28 February 2013.

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Pope Francis

Pope Francis (Franciscus; Francesco; Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936) is head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State.

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Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II (Ioannes Paulus II; Jan Paweł II; Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła,; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.

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Pope Leo XIII

Pope Leo XIII (Leone XIII; born Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci; 2 March 1810 – 20 July 1903) was head of the Catholic Church from 20 February 1878 until his death in July 1903.

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Pope Paul VI

Pope Paul VI (Paulus VI; Paolo VI; born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini,; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his death on 6 August 1978.

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Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI (Pio XI), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (31 May 1857 – 10 February 1939), was the Bishop of Rome and supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 to 10 February 1939.

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Pope Pius XII

Pope Pius XII (born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli,; 2 March 18769 October 1958) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2 March 1939 until his death in October 1958.

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Raúl Castro

Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz (born 3 June 1931) is a Cuban retired politician and general who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the one-party communist state, from 2011 to 2021, and President of Cuba between 2008 and 2018, succeeding his brother Fidel Castro.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami

The Archdiocese of Miami (Archidioecesis Miamiensis, Arquidiócesis de Miami, Achidyosèz Miami) is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church in South Florida in the United States.

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Saint

In Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God.

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Sanlúcar de Barrameda

Sanlúcar de Barrameda, or simply Sanlúcar, is a city in the northwest of Cádiz province, part of the autonomous community of Andalucía in southern Spain.

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Sex worker

A sex worker is a person who provides sex work, either on a regular or occasional basis.

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Sierra Maestra

The Sierra Maestra is a mountain range that runs westward across the south of the old Oriente Province in southeast Cuba, rising abruptly from the coast.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea is a 1952 novella written by the American author Ernest Hemingway.

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Titles of Mary

Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christianity, is known by many different titles (Blessed Mother, Virgin Mary, Mother of God, Our Lady, Holy Virgin, Madonna), epithets (Star of the Sea, Queen of Heaven, Cause of Our Joy), invocations (Panagia, Mother of Mercy, God-bearer Theotokos), and several names associated with places (Our Lady of Loreto, Our Lady of Fátima).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Charity

Also known as La Cachita, La Ermita de la Caridad, Our Lady of Charity del Cobre, Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre, Our Lady of El Cobre, Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre, Virgin of Charity of Cobre.

, Nipe Bay, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nola, Nuncio, Order of Our Lady of Charity, Oriente Province, Orisha, Oshun, Papal bull, Papal legate, Paul the Apostle, Philip II of Spain, Philippines, Pietà, Pope Benedict XV, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Pope Leo XIII, Pope Paul VI, Pope Pius XI, Pope Pius XII, Raúl Castro, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami, Saint, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Sex worker, Sierra Maestra, The New York Times, The Old Man and the Sea, Titles of Mary, Toledo, Spain, Villarrobledo, War in the Vendée, World Heritage Site.

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