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Staff , staff1 / staf/ • n. 1. [treated as sing. or pl.] all the people employed by a particular organization: a staff of 600 hospital staff were not to blam… Patristic Literature , patristic literature, Christian writings of the first few centuries. They are chiefly in Greek and Latin; there is analogous writing in Syriac and in… Sty , sty1 / stī/ • n. a pigpen. • v. (sties, stied) [tr.] archaic keep (a pig) in a sty: the most beggarly place that ever pigs were stied in. sty2 (also… Fourteen , Skip to main content
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four·teen / ˌfôrˈtēn; ˈfôrˌtēn/ • cardinal number equivalent to the product of seven and two; one more than thirteen, o… Saint Anthony , Anthony of Egypt, St
Anthony of Egypt, St (c.251–356), Egyptian hermit, the founder of monasticism. During his seclusion in the Egyptian desert he at… Saint Peter Gonzalez , Erasmus, St 4th-century bishop of Formiae and martyr, also known as St Elmo; he is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. His emblem is a windlass; the ic…
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