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Blessed Veronica of Milan (c. 1445 – 13 January 1497) was an Italian nun in the Augustinian Order. She was reputed to have received frequent visions of the Virgin Mary, and her local cultus was confirmed by Pope Leo X in 1517. Veronica grew up in the small town of Binasco, Lombardy, not far from Milan. She and her family were poor and she worked with her mother and father, doing chores and in the... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
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    Veronica of Milan

    Blessed Veronica of Milan (c. 1445 – 13 January 1497) was an Italian nun in the Augustinian Order. She was reputed to have received frequent visions of the Virgin Mary, and her local cultus was confirmed by Pope Leo X in 1517.
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    John Ozell

    He was also at pains to express his anti-Catholicism with a translation of the life of Veronica of Milan, whom he termed a saint, in 1716 (just after a Jacobite uprising), and he took a political stance by translating Paul de Rapin's Dissertation sur les Whig et les Torys with a pro-Whig slant.
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    List of saints

    | Veronica of Milan | 13 January 1497 | | | | Yes |
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    Silvio Berlusconi

    | Spouse | Carla Dall'Oglio (1965) Veronica Lario (1985) | ... | Alma mater | University of Milan |
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    Ambrosians

    Saint Charles Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan, successfully reformed their discipline, grown lax, in 1579. ... Another group of cloistered "Nuns of St Ambrose", also called the Annunciatae (Italian: Annunziate) of Lombardy or "Sisters of St Marcellina", were founded in 1408 by three young women of Pavia, Dorothea Morosini, Eleonora Contarini, and Veronica Duodi.
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    Music of Italy

    In the Metro Area of Milan there are more than 700 concerts each year. ... (Italian) Monti, Giangilberto; Veronica Di Pietro (2003).
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    Veronica Geng

    Veronica Geng (1941 – December 24, 1997) was an American editor and writer. ... She attended the University of Pennsylvania, and wrote for The New Yorker from 1976 until 1992 and was an editor for that magazine, where she worked closely with The New Yorker writers such as Philip Roth, Frederick Barthelme, Milan Kundera, William Trevor, James McCourt, and Ian Frazier.
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    Depiction of Jesus

    From the middle of the 4th century, after Christianity was legalized by the Edict of Milan in 313, and gained Imperial favour, there was a new range of images of Christ the King, often still physically as before, but adopting the costume and often the poses of Imperial iconography. ... Veil of Veronica
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    Pontius Pilate

    With the Edict of Milan in AD 313, the state-sponsored persecution of Christians came to an end, and Christianity became officially tolerated as one of the religions of the Roman Empire. ... One class of the Latin manuscripts contain as an appendix or continuation, the Cura Sanitatis Tiberii, the oldest form of the Veronica legend.
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    Italian literature

    Bernardino Corio wrote the history of Milan in Italian, but in a rude way. ... And a good many ladies are to be placed near these poets, such as Vittoria Colonna (loved by Michelangelo), Veronica Gambara, Tullia d'Aragona, and Giulia Gonzaga, poets of great delicacy, and superior in genius to many literary men of their time.

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