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Emerentia is the name given for a grandmother of Mary, mother of Jesus, in some European traditions and art from the late 15th century. [1] She is not to be confused with Saint Emerentiana , a Roman martyr of the 3rd century who features briefly in Alban Butler 's The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints 1812, volume 1.
Vincent Kartheiser (born 1979), actor; maternal great-grandmother was Polish, from Błonie Harvey Keitel (born 1939), Academy Award-nominated actor, of Polish Jewish and Romanian Jewish descent Ted Knight (1923–1986), Emmy Award-winning film and television actor ( The Mary Tyler Moore Show , Too Close for Comfort ) [ 14 ]
Świętosława was the daughter of Duke Casimir I of Poland and his wife Maria Dobroniega of Kiev. [1] She was related to the House of Přemysl, the family of her future husband, through her great-grandmother Doubravka of Bohemia.
Elizabeth Cheney (referred to as Lady Say; April 1422 – 25 September 1473) was a member of the English gentry, who was the great-grandmother of Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, and Catherine Howard, three of the wives of King Henry VIII of England, thus making her great-great-grandmother to King Edward VI, the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, and Elizabeth I, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne ...
26 August 1956 The Polish Episcopacy made the act of renewing the Lviv vows, which 300 years earlier was made by the Polish king Jan II Casimir. In 1962, Pope John XXIII, announced Mary as "Patronness of Poland" and Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland became a first-class holiday in all Polish dioceses.
A woman in Poland found a unique stone in a field and kept it. Over 50 years later, archaeologists got their first look at the stone — and identified it as a rare ancient artifact.
This is a list English words of Polish origin, that is words used in the English language that were borrowed or derived, either directly or indirectly, from Polish. Several Polish words have entered English slang via Yiddish , brought by Ashkenazi Jews migrating from Poland to North America .
During the War of the Polish Succession in 1733–1736, she supported her father's candidacy to the Polish throne, and upon her father's demand, [4] she did her best to encourage Cardinal Fleury to support her father's candidacy, but she expressed to the Cardinal that she had never wished for the war and that she was an innocent cause of it ...