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    the Talisman was kept in the Aachen Cathedral Treasury, but then Marc-Antoine Berdolet [de] the first Bishop of Aachen gave it to the Empress Josephine...
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    dioceses Liège, Utrecht, Roermond and Mainz. After the first bishop Marc Antoine Berdolet died in 1809, Pope Pius VII refused to commission the successor...
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    over the ownership of these items continue to this day. In 1804 Marc-Antoine Berdolet, the first Bishop of Aachen, gave two pieces of the collection to...
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    visited Aachen. On this occasion, it is said, the Bishop of Aachen, Marc-Antoine Berdolet, showed the Empress some of the relics of Aachen, as was usual for...
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    held at the Catholic churches in January 1806 on Bishop of Aachen Marc-Antoine Berdolet's orders (Kreuznach was part of his diocese from 1801 to 1821). In...
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