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    The University of Douai (French: Université de Douai) (Dutch: Universiteit van Dowaai) was a former university in Douai, France. With a medieval heritage...
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  • 300 priests Douai sent into England by the end of the 16th century, more than 130 (mainly the secular clergy, known as the Douai Martyrs) are known to...
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    Gregory's, Douai, France (now Downside Abbey). Returning to England as a missionary priest during the period of recusancy, he was martyred at Tyburn....
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    Ireland. In the year of 1571, Campion left Ireland in secret and escaped to Douai in the Low Countries (now France) where he was reconciled to the Catholic...
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    Douai Abbey is a Benedictine Abbey at Upper Woolhampton, near Thatcham, in the English county of Berkshire, situated within the Roman Catholic Diocese...
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    Maurontius of Douai (634 – May 5, 702) was a nobleman and Benedictine abbot. His parents were Rictrude and Adalbard. He is a Catholic saint, with a feast...
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  • Catholic Church in the United Kingdom Douai Martyrs Nuns of Tyburn Convent, The One Hundred and Five Martyrs of Tyburn, p.21, Burns & Oates, 1917 Camm...
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  • both 2 February (his martyrdom) and 2 May (translation of his relics to Douai in 1221). Adalbald was the son of Gerberga, daughter of the magister militum...
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    quartered. James Claxton was from Yorkshire. He went to the English College at Douai, which had relocated temporarily to Rheims, and was ordained at Soissons...
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    Wayback Machine. "Our Patron St Edmund". Douai Abbey: Under the Patronage of St Edmund, King & Martyr. Trustees of Douai Abbey. Retrieved 14 December 2021....
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  • England. The English College at Douai was founded as a Catholic seminary in 1569. Similar colleges also came about at Douai for Scottish and Irish Catholic...
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  • portal Douai Martyrs "The Douay Martyrs Catholic School Workforce". Gov.uk. Department for Education. Retrieved 23 August 2020. "The Douay Martyrs Catholic...
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  • was founded in 1579 by William Allen on the model of the English College, Douai. The current Rector is Rev. Stephen Wang from the Diocese of Westminster...
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  • John Sandys (priest) (category Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales)
    on 22 November 1987. Catholic Church in the United Kingdom Douai Martyrs "Beatified Martyrs of the Clifton Diocese", Clifton Diocese "Blessed John Sandys"...
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    The Eighty-five Martyrs of England and Wales, also known as George Haydock and Eighty-four Companion Martyrs, are a group of men who were executed on charges...
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    Colleges of St Omer, Bruges and Liège (category History of the Pas-de-Calais)
    twenty-two martyrs. St Philip Evans SJ, executed at Cardiff in 1679. St Thomas Garnet SJ, protomartyr of St Omers, one of the Forty Martyrs of England...
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    Thomas Belson (category 16th-century Roman Catholic martyrs)
    was punishable by death. Douai Martyrs Thomas Belson Archived 23 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Camm 1913. "Catholic Martyrs, Holywell, Oxford". www...
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    house in Fourth Form. It is named after the martyr Blessed Philip Powell, a monk of St Gregory's at Douai. Barlow House (Boys) is situated on the south...
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    Richard Challoner (category English College, Douai alumni)
    only published source on the list of Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation, including the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, among others. It remains...
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    and martyr. Born at Barlow Hall, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Lancashire c 1585. Professed a monk at Priory of St Gregory the Great, Douai in 1615-17. Martyred at...
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  • John Thulis (category Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales)
    Pollen in his Acts of the English Martyrs (London, 1891), 194–207. Catholic Church in the United Kingdom Douai Martyrs Attribution  This article incorporates...
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    Saint Blaise (category 4th-century Christian martyrs)
    (15+); Head: Naples, Saint-Maximin (Provence), Montpellier, Orbetello; Jaw: Douai, Ventimiglia, Bourbon-l'Archambault; Arms: Rome, Milan, Capua, Paris, Compostela...
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    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cambrai (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    arrondissements of Avesnes-sur-Helpe, Cambrai, Douai, and Valenciennes within the département of Nord, in the region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais. The current archbishop is...
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    Benedictines (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    commonly known as Downside Abbey, The Abbey of St Edmund, King and Martyr commonly known as Douai Abbey in Upper Woolhampton, Reading, Berkshire, Ealing Abbey...
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  • hanged, despite having been offered his life if he would go to church. Douai Martyrs Attribution  This article incorporates text from a publication now in...
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    Alexander Briant (category Forty Martyrs of England and Wales)
    entered the English College at Reims then went to the English College, Douai, and was ordained priest on 29 March 1578. Assigned to the English mission...
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    deliberate fire set by the Prussians as they left, or a bombardment by La Douai , a naval cannon, placed in bastion 74 of the Thiers wall. The ruins were...
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    Alexander Cameron (priest) (category 18th-century Roman Catholic martyrs)
    Episcopal Church to Roman Catholicism. After attending the Scots College, Douai and ordination as a priest, he was ordered by the Society of Jesus in 1741...
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    expatriate recusants in Rheims, France, in 1582 (New Testament) and in Douai, France in 1609 (Old Testament). It was revised by Bishop Richard Challoner...
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    staff from the English Mission and students from the English College at Douai. The College inherited the assets of the English College of St Gregory in...
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