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King Charles II opposed James's conversion, ordering that James's daughters, Mary and Anne, be raised in the Church of England. [49] Nevertheless, he allowed the widowed James to marry Mary of Modena, a fifteen-year-old Italian princess. [50] James and Mary were married by proxy in a Roman Catholic ceremony on 20 September 1673. [51]
By the 11th century, when the patriarchate was moved from Alexandria to Cairo, the Bohairic dialect had already become the dominant language in the Coptic Church. Consequently, the translation of the New Testament into the Bohairic dialect (cop bo) became the official text of the Coptic Church in Egypt. It is uncertain whether the Bohairic text ...
In 1979, the desire for Catholic co-education resulted in the amalgamation of St Mary's School and Sacred Heart College to create St Mary's Primary School (the primary school for boys and girls) and St Mary's College (the secondary school for boys and girls). [38] [39] [40] St Aidan's Anglican Church at Baddow closed circa 1983. [74]
Fishermen brought in 47 million lbs (21 million kg) of seafood, mainly scallops, worth $85 million (2016 USD). [115] [116] This was up from $73.7 million in 2009, when the overall market value of the port was estimated at $442 million, making it the fourth most valuable port in the country. In the 1980s, the scallop industry was worth only $15 ...
Scotland [e] is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjacent islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles.
This list of museums in Minnesota encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Battle between the Slavs and the Scythians — painting by Viktor Vasnetsov (1881). The early Slavs were speakers of Indo-European dialects [1] who lived during the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages (approximately from the 5th to the 10th centuries AD) in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe and established the foundations for the Slavic nations through the Slavic states of the Early ...
Jamaica [a] is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies.At 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi), it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. [9]