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... that Father Jacques-Désiré Laval (pictured), a Spiritan missionary to Mauritius, was the first person beatified by Pope John Paul II?
... that Andrew Ritchie named his Brompton folding bicycle company after the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary?
... that in May 1776, at the age of 16, the future Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon Yohannan Hormizd was consecrated metropolitan bishop with right of succession by his uncle, Patriarch Mar Eliya XII Denkha?