• landowner Porcarius is introduced while boar hunting. The Spanish name Suarius may have a similar origin. Known bearers of the name include; Porcarius I (fl...
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    after the early 450s and the earliest reference to Porcarius. The next known abbot after Porcarius was Marinus, mentioned in the Vita patrum Iurensium...
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    fifth century. Around 500, the community was led by Porcarius I. Around 732, the Abbot Porcarius II was killed during a Saracen raid. In 1047 the islands...
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    the abbot, Saint Porcarius, were massacred on the island by invaders. It is said that many of the monks escaped, because Porcarius had been warned of...
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  • jazz singer A Latin word meaning "instructions": Monita, work by Abbot Porcarius I of Lérins (c. 500) Monita Secreta, an alleged code of instructions of...
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    century) Saint Seigine (Ségéne mac Fiachnaí), Abbot of Iona (652) Saint Porcarius, Abbot of Lérins, and 500 Companions, massacred by the Saracens (c. 732)...
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  • was at Lérins Abbey in the period 506–510, when Porcarius I (fl. 489–495) was abbot there. Porcarius was the author of the Monita (Counsels), a short...
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    & Engratia of Segovia, c. 715 Theofrid of Orange, 728/-32 by Saracens Porcarius of Lérins, c. 732 by Saracens Boniface, 754. Æthelberht II of East Anglia...
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  • Pope Innocent XI Jænberht Jane Frances de Chantal Muiredach (or Murtagh) Porcarius II August 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Glorious Twelfth (United Kingdom)...
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  • from Newhouse, Lincolnshire; founded before 1160 (1163, 1162) by William Porcarius; dissolved 1538 (1539); granted to Thomas, Earl of Rutland 1538/9 Croxton...
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