• St Francis House, the successor to the Church of England Hostel for Inland Children, was a home for inland Aboriginal Australian boys from 1946 to 1959...
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    Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, 1st Lord Verulam, PC (/ˈbeɪkən/; 22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served...
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    Brookline to them in 1927, which they then converted into St. Francis Friary, a retreat house for laymen which opened the following year. In 1944, shortly...
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    The St. Francis Dam, or the San Francisquito Dam, was a concrete gravity dam located in San Francisquito Canyon in northern Los Angeles County, California...
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  • Saint Francis House is a nonprofit, nonsectarian, daytime shelter, primarily for the homeless, located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, and founded...
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  • The University of St. Francis (USF) is a private Franciscan university with its main campus in Joliet, Illinois. It enrolls nearly 3,200 students at locations...
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    St. Francis College (St. Francis of Brooklyn or SFC) is a private Franciscan college in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City. It was founded in 1859 by the...
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    Christianity portal The Community of St. Francis (CSF) is a Franciscan Anglican religious order of sisters founded in 1905, and is the oldest surviving...
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    Center in Hartford, CT, United States. St. Francis de Sales Broadcast Center in Batangas City, Philippines houses two radio stations under the Catholic...
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  • St. Francis Xavier University is a public undergraduate liberal arts university located in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a member of the Maple...
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  • Saint Francis University (SFU) is a private Catholic university in Loretto, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1847 and conducted under the tradition of...
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    Ambassador Boulevard. St. Francis was named after Francis of Assisi. In 1855 Dwight Woodbury built a dam, grist and saw mill, and the first house, which later...
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  • St. Francis", and a church historian has noted that the phrasing of the first half of the text ("let me...") is atypically self-oriented for Francis:...
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    Francis Xavier Basilica of Bom Jesus, Old Goa The Shrine of Saint Francis Xavier The Life of St. Francis Xavier The life and letters of St. Francis Xavier...
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    is said that they earnestly beseeched God, through the intercession of St Francis of Assisi, for a son. They vowed to direct him to God's service, so that...
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    St. Francis, also known as Sápauŋ thí (Lakota: Sápauŋ thí; "Catholic House") is a town in the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Todd County, South Dakota,...
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    The Westin St. Francis, formerly known as St. Francis Hotel, is a hotel located on Powell and Geary Streets in San Francisco, adjacent to the whole western...
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  • Norman Antony Francis St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley, PC, FRSL (/ˌsɪndʒən ˈstiːvəs/ sin-jən-STEE-vəs; born Norman Panayea St John Stevas; 18...
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  • Australia St Francis Xavier's Cathedral, Geraldton, Western Australia St Francis Xavier Church, Goodna, Chapel of St. Francis Xavier, Macau St. Francis Xavier...
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    of Saint Francis were brought in a solemn procession to the Lower Basilica from its temporary burial place in the church of San Giorgio (St. George),...
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    The church is named after St. Francis of Assisi. The St. Francis Church was built as part of the Abrahamic Family House project which was announced...
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  • The Ven. Francis Harry House OBE MA was Archdeacon of Macclesfield from 1967 to 1978. Born into an ecclesiastical family on 9 August 1908, he was educated...
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    St Francis Bay (Afrikaans: St Francisbaai) is a holiday town in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, roughly...
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    Trinity Retreat House for clergy and executive director of St. Francis House. Groeschel served as professor of Pastoral Psychology at St. Joseph's Seminary...
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  • St. Francis Wood is a residential neighborhood located in southwestern San Francisco, California, south of the West Portal neighborhood and west of Mount...
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    later became a priest. Francis was educated in Sunderland at Benedict Biscop Primary School (a Church of England primary school) and St Anthony’s Secondary...
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    Pope Francis on behalf of the Catholic Church and Ahmed El-Tayeb on behalf of the al-Azhar Mosque on 4 February 2019 in Abu Dhabi. It houses the St. Francis...
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    1821. It was named after the St. Francis River. The origin of the river's name is unclear. It may refer to St. Francis of Assisi. Another possibility...
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    St Francis of Assisi Church is a Catholic parish church on Pottery Lane in Notting Hill, Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London. It was built from 1859...
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    Domus Sanctae Marthae (Latin for Saint Martha's House; Italian: Casa Santa Marta) is a building adjacent to St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. Completed...
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