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  2. Beauty Union - Wikipedia

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    The union was founded on 16 October 1932, as the Dutch Catholic Union of Barbers and Hairdressers, also known as "St Cosmas". It affiliated to the Dutch Catholic Trade Union Federation (NKV). It initially had only 179 members, and by 1939 had grown to only 232.

  3. List of patron saints by occupation and activity - Wikipedia

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    Barbers - Cosmas, [5] Damian [8] Barristers - Genesius; Bartenders - Amand [9] Basket makers - Anthony the Abbot, [2] Beekeepers - Ambrose of Milan, Bernard of Clairvaux, Valentine; Beggars - Ambrose of Milan, [5] Elisabeth of Hungary, [10] Giles, Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur; Bell makers - Agatha of Sicily [6] Belt makers - Alexius of Rome

  4. Michael C. Barber - Wikipedia

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    Barber was the first American jesuit bishop appointed by Francis. [4] [3] Besides English, Barber speaks Italian, French, Samoan, liturgical Spanish and Latin. [5] In March, 2014, Barber transferred two pastors, one of whom was openly gay, from Newman Hall Holy Spirit Parish in Berkeley, California. Barber refused to provide any explanation to ...

  5. Gertrude A. Barber - Wikipedia

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    Gertrude Agnes Barber was an American educator and administrator who founded the Barber Center in 1952 to serve disabled children, adults, and families. [ 1 ] Born in 1911, she was the child of an Irish immigrant mother and first-generation Irish-American father.

  6. Worshipful Company of Barbers - Wikipedia

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    The Worshipful Company of Barbers is one of the livery companies of the City of London, and ranks 17th in precedence.. The Fellowship of Surgeons merged with the Barbers' Company in 1540, forming the Company of Barbers and Surgeons, but after the rising professionalism of the trade broke away in 1745 to form what would become the Royal College of Surgeons.

  7. Pierre Toussaint - Wikipedia

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    The Pierre Toussaint Haitian-Catholic Center in Miami, Florida, is named for him. [ 7 ] Toussaint Academy San Diego (formerly The Pierre Toussaint Academy of Arts and Sciences) is a residential secondary school for homeless 14–18-year-old youth founded by Father Joe Carroll in 1992 and operated as a component of Father Joe's Villages ...

  8. List of barbers - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of barbers and barber surgeons. Ambroise Paré — a pioneering surgeon of 16th century France when barbers also performed surgery. [1] Hugo E. Vogel — Wisconsin assemblyman and barber for more than fifty years [2] Johanna Hedén — a midwife who became the first female barber surgeon in Sweden [3]

  9. Barber - Wikipedia

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    A barber is a person whose occupation is mainly to cut, dress, groom, style and shave hair or beards. A barber's place of work is known as a barbershop or the barber's. Barbershops have been noted places of social interaction and public discourse since at least classical antiquity. In some instances, barbershops were also public forums.