• Marie of Oignies (Maria Ogniacensis, born Nivelles, now Belgium, 1177, died 1213) was a Beguine saint, known from the Life written by James of Vitry, for...
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    who died as a result of extreme asceticism, which had emaciated her to the point she could no longer be recognized. Marie of Oignies (1177–1213) went to...
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    Country Ascetics and Oriental Luxury: Jacques de Vitry, Marie of Oignies, and the Treasures of Oignies". In Rachel Fulton Brown; Bruce W. Holsinger (eds.)...
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    Oignies (French pronunciation: [waɲi]; Picard: Ongnies) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Oignies...
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    Latin). Also includes biographies of Marie of Oignies, Ida of Louvain, Ida of Nivelles, Ida of Léau, and Lutgard of Aywières.This manuscript has been...
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    Supplementum, to the Life of Mary of Oignies, written in 1215 by Jacques de Vitry regarding the figure of Marie of Oignies. Thomas writes the Supplementum...
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    23 June 1239. He died at Rome as Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals. His remains were transferred to Oignies and buried there in 1241. From a document...
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  • Saint symbolism: Saints (I–P) (category Lists of saints)
    beginnings of the religion. Each saint is said to have led an exemplary life and symbols have been used to tell these stories throughout the history of the Church...
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    influence of the saintly Marie of Oignies and preached the Albigensian Crusade after 1210. He arrived at his new position as Bishop of Acre in 1216 and shortly...
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  • of Assisi (1194–1253); Anthony of Padua (1195–1231); Marie of Oignies (d.1213); Alice of Schaerbeek (d.1250); Thomas Gallus (c.1200–1246) Beatrice of...
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    women of this group settled in huts between the men's priory and the river. Marie of Oignies left her husband and arrived here in the first decade of the...
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    Liège (redirect from History of Liège)
    spirituality: Elizabeth Spaakbeek, Christina the Astonishing, and Marie of Oignies. In 1345, the citizens of Liège rebelled against Prince-Bishop Engelbert III de...
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  • June 23 (redirect from 23rd of June)
    businessman, founded McAfee (b. 1945) Christian feast day: Æthelthryth Marie of Oignies Joseph Cafasso June 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Father's Day (Nicaragua...
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  • August – Baldwin V, King of Jerusalem (d. 1186) Marie of Oignies, French beguin (d. 1213) Sylvester Gozzolini, Italian founder of the Sylvestrines (d. 1267)...
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  • Margery Kempe (category Female saints of medieval England)
    tears. The friar admitted to having read of Marie of Oignies and recognised that Kempe's tears were also a result of similar authentic devotion. During this...
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  • 13th century lay women who led devout lives, following the example of Marie of Oignies. Called mulieres religiosae or mulieres sanctae, some gathered together...
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    amid the Battle of France, the Oignies and Courrières massacre involved mass killings of French civilians in the two nearby town of Oignies and Courrières...
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  • August – Baldwin V, King of Jerusalem (d. 1186) Marie of Oignies, French beguin (d. 1213) Sylvester Gozzolini, Italian founder of the Sylvestrines (d. 1267)...
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    Beauvale Priory (category History of Catholicism in England)
    the vitae of Elizabeth of Spalbeek, Marie of Oignies, and Christina the Astonishing, a letter concerning Catherine of Siena, and Henry Suso's Horologium...
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  • Aiseau (category Former municipalities of Hainaut (province))
    production of glass was also occurred in Aiseau through "Glaceries Sainte-Marie d'Oignies". This huge farm was located along the present street Oignies, the...
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    Carvin (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    within the Oignies group. During World War I, from October 1914 to October 1918, Carvin was occupied by the Germans. Located at the rear of the front as...
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  • François Buisseret (category Old University of Leuven alumni)
    vie, miracles, et translation de Sainte-Marie d'Oingnies (Leuven, Rivius, 1609), a life of Marie of Oignies. Jules Delecourt, "Buisseret (François)"...
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    musical compositions are usually attributed to Goswin: a historia for Marie of Oignies and a historia and pium dictamen for Arnulf Cornibout. The two historiae...
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    Courrières (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    river Deûle forms threequarters of the borders of the commune. Harnes (west) Estevelles (northwest) Carvin (north) Oignies (east) Dourges (southeast) Montigny-en-Gohelle...
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  • from Marie-Josephe de Mastaing-Oignies in 1842; each member is prince/sse de Merode since 1929. Famous is prince Emmanuel de Merode, director of the Virunga...
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    Outreau (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Outreau is a large industrial town and port situated adjacent to, and west of Boulogne, on the N1, N142 and D19...
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    Oigny (French pronunciation: [waɲi]) is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France. Communes of the Côte-d'Or department "Répertoire national...
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    Calais (redirect from History of Calais)
    commemorates Joseph Marie Jacquard, popular in Calais because of his contribution to the development of lace through his invention of the Jacquard loom...
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    Berck (category Communes of Pas-de-Calais)
    Watercolour, 1904 Marie-Joseph Iwill, The flooded road to Berck. 1909, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen Charles Roussel, Dune on the outskirts of Berck. Oil on...
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  • shortly after the death of Mary of Oignies, in 1215 or 1216, to a wealthy family, likely in the town of Digne in Provence, in the south of France. Her father...
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