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  2. Rhoda Wise - Wikipedia

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    Rhoda Wise. Rhoda Greer Wise (February 22, 1888 – July 7, 1948) was an American Catholic stigmatist and mystic from Canton, Ohio (originally in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland and now part of the Diocese of Youngstown ). Between 1939 and her death in 1948, Wise reported seeing regular visions of Jesus Christ and Saint Thérèse of ...

  3. List of venerated Americans - Wikipedia

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    Henriette DeLille (1813–1862), Founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family of New Orleans (Louisiana, USA) Declared Venerable: March 27, 2010. Kasimira Kaupas (Maria) (1880–1940), Founder of the Sisters of Saint Casimir (Panevėžys, Lithuania – Illinois, USA) Declared Venerable: July 1, 2010.

  4. Society for the Propagation of the Faith - Wikipedia

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    The Society for the Propagation of the Faith (Latin: Propagandum Fidei) is an international association coordinating assistance for Catholic missionary priests, brothers, and nuns in mission areas. The society was founded in Lyon, France, in 1822, by Pauline Jaricot. It is the oldest of four Pontifical Mission Societies of the Catholic Church .

  5. Jacobellis v. Ohio - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Const. amends. I, XIV; Ohio Rev. Code § 2905.34. Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), was a United States Supreme Court decision handed down in 1964 involving whether the state of Ohio could, consistent with the First Amendment, ban the showing of the Louis Malle film The Lovers ( Les Amants ), which the state had deemed obscene. [1]

  6. William Henry Venable - Wikipedia

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    He was an editor of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly. He was actively connected with many educational associations, and a member of several learned bodies. The Ohio University gave him the degree of LL.D. in 1886. In 1889 he became Chairman of the English Department at Hughes High School in Cincinnati and in 1896 became Chairman ...

  7. History of Ohio - Wikipedia

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    A 2016 study on immigrants in Ohio concluded that immigrants make up 6.7% of all entrepreneurs in Ohio although they are just 4.2% of Ohio's population, and that these immigrant-owned businesses generated almost $532 million in 2014. The study also showed that "immigrants in Ohio earned $15.6 billion in 2014 and contributed $4.4 billion in ...

  8. Kateri Tekakwitha - Wikipedia

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    Kateri Tekakwitha ( pronounced [ˈɡaderi deɡaˈɡwita] in Mohawk ), given the name Tekakwitha, baptized as Catherine, and informally known as Lily of the Mohawks (1656 – April 17, 1680), is a Catholic saint and virgin who was a Mohawk. Born in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon, in present-day New York State, she contracted smallpox in an ...

  9. Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Members. 166,521 (1929) Ministers. 768 (1929) The Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio and Other States, commonly known as the Joint Synod of Ohio or the Ohio Synod, was a German-language Lutheran denomination whose congregations were originally located primarily in the U.S. state of Ohio, later expanding to most parts of the United States.