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    of St Peter and St Paul, Amadour, having returned to France, on the death of his spouse, withdrew to a wild spot in Quercy where he built a chapel in...
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    Arabic and Western European domes Hugo fortified the rock of Cardaillac in Quercy (département of the Lot) in the mid-eleventh century, and the family remained...
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    in 1594 in favor of Jean de Visandon, and retired to the Abbey of Roc-Amadour, where he died on 8 September 1595, at the age of eighty. Since Pope Clement...
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    century and there dedicated a church to St. Stephen, while his disciple, St. Amadour (Amator), the Zaccheus of the Gospel and husband of St. Veronica, evangelized...
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