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    Anthony of Padua, OFM, (Portuguese: António/Antônio de Pádua; Italian: Antonio di/da Padova; Latin: Antonius Patavinus) or Anthony of Lisbon (Portuguese:...
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    Padua (/ˈpædjuə/ PAD-ew-ə; Italian: Padova [ˈpaːdova] ; Venetian: Pàdova, Pàdoa or Pàoa) is a city and comune (municipality) in Veneto, northern Italy...
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    Carlos Antonio de Padua Chávez y Ramírez (13 June 1899 – 2 August 1978) was a Mexican composer, conductor, music theorist, educator, journalist, and founder...
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    Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón, usually known as Antonio López de Santa Anna (Spanish pronunciation: [anˈtonjo ˈlopes...
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    The Reliquary of Saint Daniel is a liturgical object that comes from the Cathedral Church of Padua. This object was created by Bartolomeo da Bologna,...
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    Hieronymus Fabricius (category University of Padua alumni)
    University of Padua, receiving a Doctor of Medicine degree in 1559 under the guidance of Gabriele Falloppio. He was a private teacher of anatomy in Padua, 1562–1565...
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    is dedicated to Daniel of Padua. The altar is characterized by the use of red marble from France and the marbles of Carrara and Padua; the altarpiece...
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    Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: [ˈʁi.u d(ʒi) ʒɐˈne(j)ɾu] ), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the second-most-populous city...
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    Rasmus Bartholin (category University of Padua alumni)
    Copenhagen. In 1654, he received a Doctoral degree at the University of Padua. He was a professor at the University of Copenhagen, first in Geometry,...
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    Daniel in the Lions' Den is a painting from around 1615 by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens which is displayed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington...
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    Introduction to the Devout Life. De Sales completed his studies at Collège de Clermont and enrolled at the University of Padua, in Italy, where he studied...
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    intervention of the monk Ambrogio Traversari on his behalf. Cosimo travelled to Padua and then to Venice, taking his bank along with him and finding friends and...
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    Giuseppe Tartini (category Musicians from Padua)
    Scuole Pie in Capodistria (today Koper). He studied law at the University of Padua, where he became skilled at fencing. After his father's death in 1710, he...
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    University of Padua, in 1599. During Harvey's years of study there, he developed a relationship with Fabricius and read Fabricius's De Venarum Ostiolis...
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    on his ninth birthday, was sent to a boarding house on the mainland in Padua. For Casanova, the neglect by his parents was a bitter memory. "So they...
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    Daniele Manin (redirect from Daniel Manin)
    is commemorated by a plaque. His mother, Anna Maria Bellotto, came from Padua, while his father, Pietro Antonio Fonseca (1762–1829), came from a family...
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    Appleton Company. Padua, St. Anthony of (1865). "Book I: First Part (Against sin)" . The Moral Concordances of Saint Anthony of Padua. J.T. Hayes. Pieper...
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    Institute of Hydraulics and Hydraulic Constructions of the University of Padua, and were carried out with funding of SADE, under the control of the study...
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    Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, TOSD (French pronunciation: [lwi maʁi ɡʁiɲɔ̃ də mɔ̃fɔʁ]; 31 January 1673 – 28 April 1716) was a French Catholic priest...
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    students Francesco Albergotti. He subsequently taught law at Pisa, Florence, Padua and Pavia, the rivals to Bologna. During his period at Pavia he sometimes...
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  • apprenticeship sessions with his father, then applied to the University of Padua. He was denied entry due to his low social rank, and was also rejected by...
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    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (French: [pjɛʁ tɛjaʁ də ʃaʁdɛ̃] ; 1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French Jesuit, Catholic priest, scientist, palaeontologist...
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    Nicolaus Copernicus (category University of Padua alumni)
    Natio Germanica Bononiae, as Dominus Nicolaus Kopperlingk de Thorn – IX grosseti. At Padua he signed himself "Nicolaus Copernik", later "Coppernicus"...
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  • 11.8722693 The Diocesan museum of Padua displays arts and artifacts belonging to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Padua; it is housed in the 15th-century...
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    the conquest of the Della Scala and Da Carrara territories of Verona and Padua. Between 1390 and 1398, the attacks of Gian Galeazzo encountered the opposition...
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  • Daniel of Padua, 2nd-century Italian martyr Daniel of Persia, 4th-century Persian martyr Daniel of Scetis, 5th-century Egyptian Christian monk Daniel...
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    727302°N 74.00141°W / 40.727302; -74.00141 The Church of St. Anthony of Padua is a Catholic parish church in the Archdiocese of New York, located at 155...
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    dei preumanisti padovani". Italia Medievale e Umanistica (in Italian). I. Padua: Antenore: 155–243. ISBN 978-88-8455-089-7. Brandt, Samuel (1885). "Zur...
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    Luis de León OESA (Belmonte, Cuenca, 1527 – Madrigal de las Altas Torres, Castile, Spain, 23 August 1591), was a Spanish lyric poet, Augustinian friar...
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  • Carrera Sunglasses (category Companies based in Padua)
    Pacino in Scarface, Robert De Niro in Casino, James Franco in Spring Breakers, actors Chris Hemsworth (who plays Hunt) and Daniel Brühl (who plays Lauda)...
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