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Pavlovsk

(Encyclopedia)Pavlovsk pävˈləfsk [key], city (1989 pop. 25,500), NW Russia, a summer resort near St. Petersburg. Founded by Catherine the Great in 1777, it was named for Czar Paul I, for whose country estate it ...

Cajetan, Saint

(Encyclopedia)Cajetan, Saint kăjˈətăn, käˌyātänˈ [key], 1480–1547, Italian churchman and reformer. Son of the count of Thiene, he studied civil and canon law, but abandoned work as a jurist at the papal ...

Sarpi, Paolo

(Encyclopedia)Sarpi, Paolo päˈōlō särˈpē [key], 1552–1623, Venetian councillor, theologian, and historian. In 1565 he became a Servite friar and later theologian and adviser to the republic. In the conflic...

Passionists

(Encyclopedia)Passionists: see Paul of the Cross, Saint. ...

Tychicus

(Encyclopedia)Tychicus tĭkˈĭkəs [key], in the New Testament, companion of Paul. ...

Demas

(Encyclopedia)Demas dēˈmăs [key], in the New Testament, companion who forsook Paul. ...

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