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Sinterklaas is the basis for the North American figure of Santa Claus. It is often claimed that during the American War of Independence, the inhabitants of New York City, a former Dutch colonial town (New Amsterdam), reinvented their Sinterklaas tradition, as Saint Nicholas was a symbol of the city's non-English past. [55]
James Patrick Shannon was born in South St. Paul, Minnesota, on February 16, 1921, from Patrick Joseph Shannon and Mary Alice McAuliff Foxley Shannon.He was the youngest of 6 children in a large Irish Catholic family.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Michael Edgar Adie, CBE (22 November 1929 – 4 March 2024) was an English Anglican clergyman who was Bishop of Guildford from 1983 until his retirement in 1994. Biography [ edit ]
The shooting death of a Los Angeles Catholic bishop is being investigated as a murder, police said. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...
Mario Eduardo Dorsonville-Rodríguez (October 31, 1960 – January 19, 2024) was a Colombian-born American Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of Houma–Thibodaux from March 2023 until his death in January 2024. He was an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Washington from 2015 to 2023.
Saint Jude, a Catholic cathedral, had a larger seating capacity than the Episcopal Cathedral Church of Saint Peter.) On May 1, 2015, he was nominated for presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church. [9] Smith died after brief illness on October 26, 2024. [10]
Alan Thomas Lawrence Wilson (27 March 1955 – 17 February 2024) was a British Anglican bishop. He served as the area Bishop of Buckingham in the Diocese of Oxford from October 2003 until his death in February 2024.