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NUPTIAL

Usually in the plural, nuptials. a wedding, with a stress on the solemn or elaborate ceremonies with which the marriage takes place. (Etym. Latin nuptialis, of a marriage or wedding.)

Sat8 November
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Saturday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time

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The Roman Martyrology includes these commemorations: —Blessed John Duns Scotus (1266-1308), a Scottish Franciscan priest and theologian who died in 1308. He was beatified in 1993 and the the founder of the Scotistic School in Theology, and until the time of the French Revolution his thought…

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