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INFALLIBLE BOOK

A term sometimes applied to the Bible by those who criticize evangelica Protestants because they believe the Scriptures contain the inerrant word of God.

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Wednesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time

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The Roman Martyrology commemorates Sts. Processus and Martinian whose bodies lie in a chapel at St. Peter's in Rome. During the time when Sts. Peter and Paul were prisoners in the Mamertine, legend says that these two jailors together with forty others were converted through the prayers and miracles…

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