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    He was beatified by Pope Francis on May 15, 2021. He was born John Baptist Jordan in the town of Gurtweil, in the Grand Duchy of Baden (now part of the...
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    but returned home the following year without taking vows. She met Johann Baptist Jordan in mid-1882. With him she established the Sisters of the Divine...
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  • 2021 Agrigento, Italy Cardinal Marcello Semeraro 29 October 5. Johann Baptist Jordan 15 May 2021 Rome, Italy Cardinal Angelo De Donatis 21 July 6. María...
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    baptized by John the Baptist in it. Several hypotheses for the origin of most of the river's names in modern languages (e.g., Jordan, Yarden, Urdunn), one...
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  • Thumbnail for Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7
    Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam (Christ our Lord came to the Jordan), BWV 7, is one of several church cantatas which Johann Sebastian Bach composed for...
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    John the Baptist (c. 1st century BC – c. AD 30) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early 1st century AD. He is also known...
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    Buxtehude (BuxWV 180) and Johann Pachelbel. Johann Sebastian Bach composed the chorale cantata Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7, for Johannistag...
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    founded in Rome on 8 December 1881 by Johann Baptist Jordan (1848–1918), known as Pater Jordan. In 1895, P. Jordan sent to Timișoara the young Salvatorian...
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    "Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam", which became associated with the Baptist's day. The feast was celebrated in Lutheran Leipzig, Johann Sebastian Bach composed...
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    George Starkey argued it came from the German word al-gehest (all spirit). Johann Rudolph Glauber posed that it could have come from the words alhali est...
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