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  • Thumbnail for Opus Dei
    Opus Dei (Work of God) is an institution of the Catholic Church that, by a purported divine inspiration, was founded in Spain in 1928 by Catholic priest...
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    president of the Council of Ministers (Italian: Presidente del Consiglio dei ministri), is the head of government of the Italian Republic. The office...
    25 KB (2,724 words) - 14:29, 6 September 2024
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    ˈmɑːk-/ DAY-əs ex-MA(H)K-in-ə, Latin: [ˈdɛ.ʊs ɛks ˈmaːkʰɪnaː]; plural: dei ex machina; English "god from the machine") is a plot device whereby a seemingly...
    24 KB (2,803 words) - 05:01, 6 September 2024
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    The Chamber of Deputies (Italian: Camera dei deputati) is the lower house of the bicameral Italian Parliament, the upper house being the Senate of the...
    88 KB (1,178 words) - 12:21, 15 September 2024
  • Capo dei capi (Italian: [ˈkaːpo dei ˈkaːpi]; "boss of [the] bosses") or capo di tutti i capi (Italian: [ˈkaːpo di ˈtutti i ˈkaːpi]; "boss of all [the]...
    13 KB (1,421 words) - 23:50, 15 August 2024
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    Servant of God (redirect from Servus Dei)
    in Heaven. The term Servant of God (Latin: Servus Dei) should not be confused with Servus Servorum Dei (Servant of the Servants of God), one of the titles...
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    Agnus Dei is the Latin name under which the "Lamb of God" is honoured within Christian liturgies descending from the historic Latin liturgical tradition...
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    in the Palazzo dei Conservatori nearby. He provided new fronts to the two official buildings of Rome's civic government, the Palazzo dei Conservatori,...
    28 KB (3,501 words) - 14:59, 15 August 2024
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    Lamb of God (redirect from Angus Dei)
    of God (Greek: Ἀμνὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ, romanized: Amnòs toû Theoû; Latin: Agnus Dei, Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈaɲ.ɲus ˈde.i]) is a title for Jesus that appears...
    26 KB (3,064 words) - 04:59, 28 August 2024
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    Mater Dei High School is a private, Catholic, co-educational secondary school in Santa Ana, California, located in and administered by the Diocese of...
    21 KB (1,749 words) - 20:52, 15 September 2024
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    Catherine of Bologna [Caterina de' Vigri] (8 September 1413 – 9 March 1463) was an Italian Poor Clare, writer, teacher, mystic, artist, and saint. The...
    15 KB (1,734 words) - 21:44, 26 August 2024
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    On the City of God Against the Pagans (Latin: De civitate Dei contra paganos), often called The City of God, is a book of Christian philosophy written...
    14 KB (1,685 words) - 04:26, 25 June 2024
  • The Accademia dei Lincei (Italian pronunciation: [akkaˈdɛːmja dei linˈtʃɛi]; literally the "Academy of the Lynx-Eyed"), anglicised as the Lincean Academy...
    25 KB (2,452 words) - 14:42, 6 September 2024
  • fraudulent, and so on. The Devil's advocate opposed 'God's advocate' (advocatus Dei; also known as the 'Promoter of the Cause'), whose task was to make the argument...
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    Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 – 21 June 1527) was a Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who lived during the Italian...
    110 KB (12,427 words) - 05:38, 14 September 2024
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    /ˌkɑːr-/, Italian: [karabiˈnjɛːri]; formally Arma dei Carabinieri, "Arm of Carabineers"; previously Corpo dei Carabinieri Reali, "Royal Carabineers Corps")...
    51 KB (5,555 words) - 14:40, 15 August 2024
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    1147–1254 (Leiden, Brill. 2007) (The Northern World, 26). Guido Levi, Registri dei Cardinali Ugolino d' Ostia e Ottaviano degli Ubaldini (Roma 1890). Damian...
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    Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers) is a fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy. It was designed in 1651 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini...
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  • -laɪ/ VOKS POP-yoo-lee, -⁠lye) is a Latin phrase (originally Vox populi, vox Dei -The voice of the people is the voice of the God) that literally means "voice...
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    Redemptorists, in November 1732. In 1762 he was appointed Bishop of Sant'Agata dei Goti. A prolific writer, he published nine editions of his Moral Theology...
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