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  2. Crispin and Crispinian - Wikipedia

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    The feast day of Saints Crispin and Crispinian is 25 October. [4] Although this feast was removed from the Roman Catholic Church's universal liturgical calendar following the Second Vatican Council, the two saints are still commemorated on that day in the most recent edition of the Roman Church's martyrology.

  3. Crispus, Crispinianus, and Benedicta - Wikipedia

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    Crispus (or Crispinus), Crispinianus and Benedicta were Roman Christian martyrs, venerated after their death as saints. According to hagiographical accounts, their death followed as a result of the martyrdom of Saints John and Paul. According to the Acta Sanctorum, they were killed during the reign of Julian. This would place their deaths ...

  4. Saint Crispin's Day - Wikipedia

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    Saint Crispin's Day, or the Feast of Saint Crispin, falls on 25 October and is the feast day of the Christian saints Crispin and Crispinian, twins who were martyred c. 286. [1] They are both the patron saints of cobblers, leather workers, tanners, saddlers and glove, lace and shoemakers (among other professions). [2]

  5. Paganism - Wikipedia

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    The notion of paganism, as it is generally understood today, was created by the early Christian Church. It was a label that Christians applied to others, one of the antitheses that were central to the process of Christian self-definition. As such, throughout history it was generally used in a derogatory sense.

  6. Popery - Wikipedia

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    An 1807 satirical painting by James Gillray showing King George III of the United Kingdom saying "bring in the papists!". The words Popery (adjective Popish) and Papism (adjective Papist, also used to refer to an individual) are mainly historical pejorative words in the English language for Roman Catholicism, once frequently used by Protestants and Eastern Orthodox Christians to label their ...

  7. Christendom - Wikipedia

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    These hospitals were established to cater to "particular social groups marginalized by poverty, sickness, and age," according to historian of hospitals, Guenter Risse. [70] Christianity also had a strong impact on all other aspects of life: marriage and family, education, the humanities and sciences, the political and social order, the economy ...

  8. Nethinim - Wikipedia

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    In the 10 genealogical classes (yuhasin) set forth in the Mishnah, they are ranked above shetukim (people of whose paternity is unknown) and assufim (foundlings) [16] but beneath mamzerim, the offspring of illicit unions, and were prohibited from marrying Israellites of good standing, [15] though intermarriage between the last four classes ...

  9. Ioudaios - Wikipedia

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    One complication in the translation question is that the meaning of the word evolved over the centuries. For example, Morton Smith, writing in the 1999 Cambridge History of Judaism, [13] states that from c.100 BCE under the Hasmoneans the meaning of the word Ioudaioi expanded further: For clarity, we may recall that the three main earlier ...