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    Vásquez de Arce y Ceballos. This chapel is adorned with a half-round arch and a masonry altar. It contains a statue of the Immaculate Conception, patron saint...
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    officially proclaim it until 1854. The work's patron is clearly identified: the Immaculate Conception Brotherhood, a lay confraternity in Milan, attached...
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    as the patron saint of Porto, the second largest city in Portugal. An article from June 2004 in The Guardian remarked that "Porto's Festa de São João...
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    water (Veles) against heaven/sky and fire (Perun). The Ivanov/Toporov conception of "the key myth" of Slavic mythology has been criticized by several authors...
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    fitted with glass or latticework. Flanking the entrances are four pairs of Composite columns elevated on pedestals. A set of Corinthian columns stands directly...
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    narrative; only Notre-Dame de la Belle-Verrière includes a larger image made up of multiple panels. This window is actually a composite; the upper part, showing...
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    the Chapel of Saint Catherine (which leads to the cloister). Its patron was Sancho de Rojas who is buried here; more than a chapel, it sometimes serves...
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    instead that the Shang likely had a particularised, impersonal conception of Di as a composite of ancestor and nature powers. The Shang often noted the winds...
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    Pepita Tudó is a more likely candidate. Others believe that the woman is a composite of several different models. The word maja is the feminine form of majo...
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    of Merlin), or just the Vulgate Merlin, concerns Merlin's complicated conception and childhood and the early life of Arthur, which Merlin has influence...
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