CLOTILDA, SAINT

klətĭlˈdə, d. 545, Frankish queen. She converted her husband, Clovis I, to Christianity and built with him in Paris the Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul, later renamed (10th cent.) Sainte-Geneviève. After her husband's death she spent her life caring for the poor. Feast: June 3.

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books on: Clotilda Saint  - 29 results

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Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
Book by Sylviane A. Diouf; Oxford University Press, 2007
Subjects: Clotilda (Ship), Mobile (Ala.)--Race Relations--History--19th Century, Mobile (Ala.)--Social Conditions--19th Century, Slave Trade--Alabama--Mobile--History--19th Century, Slave Trade--United States--History--19th Century, Slavery--Alabama--History--19th Century, Slaves--Alabama--Biography, Slaves--Alabama--History--19th Century, West Africans--Alabama--Biography, West Africans--Alabama--History--19th Century
...not back from a trip when the Clotilda left.14 On the night of March...Chickasaw Bogue, where the Clotilda was anchored. The bag of gold...men boarded the vessel. The Clotilda, now a low ship with tall...of lumber to the island of Saint Thomas, in the Danish Virgin...
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How to Distinguish the Saints in Art by Their Costumes, Symbols, and Attributes
Book by Arthur De Bles; Art Culture, 1925
Subjects: Christian Art And Symbolism, Christian Saints--Art, Christian Saints--Attributes
...d. 1617. Only canonized saint in the Western Hemisphere...PALERMO. d. 1160. Hermit Saint. Crown of Roses. In cave...votive pictures. b HERMIT SAINTS FEMALE See Plates XXIII and...OF PARIS. d. 509. Patron Saint of Paris Saved the city from...Childeric. Converted Clovis and Clotilda to Christianity. Generally...
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Saints' Legends
Book by Gordon Hall Gerould; Houghton Mifflin, 1916
Subjects: English Literature--History And Criticism, Legends, Saints
...for his material. The poem was based on the epitome of the saints life in Legenda Aurea , and was merely a free rendering of...1429-30. It relates an incident from the legend of St. Clotilda , and is undistinguished save in the circumstances of its production...
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Between Slavery and Freedom: Special Magistrate John Anderson's Journal of St. Vincent during the Apprenticeship
Book by Roderick A. Mcdonald; University of the West Indies Press, 2001
Subjects: Anderson, John--1798-1839, Apprenticeship Programs--Saint Vincent--History--19th Century, Blacks--Saint Vincent--History--19th Century, Saint Vincent--Description And Travel, Saint Vincent--Race Relations, Saint Vincent--Social Conditions--19th Century, Saint Vincent--Social Life And Customs--19th Century, Social Classes--Saint Vincent--History--19th Century
...unknown to Creole ears; To arrive at the exact conclusion, your Caesar Augustus, - Scipio, - or if of the gentler sex, - Clotilda, Juliet, or other equally romantic sounding name will tell you, you must reduce, and give to them the following delectable...
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The Earliest Times
Book by Frantz Funck-Brentano, E. F. Buckley; William Heinemann, 1927
Subjects: France--History--Carlovingian And Early Period To 987, Gaul--History
...with Clotilda. He also left a daughter named Clotilda after her mother, who married Amalaric, the...unhappy owing to their religious differences. Clotilda, the daughter of Saint Clotilda, was an ardent Catholic, whilst Amalaric...
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"Femme De Corps et Femme Par Sens": Christine De Pizan's Saintly Women
Journal article by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski; The Romanic Review, Vol. 87, 1996
Subjects: De Pizan, Christine--Criticism, interpretation, etc., French literature--To 1500, Hagiography--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...turns to such upper class saints as Saint Clotilda, Saint Louis, and Saint Elizabeth of Hungary as...clearly preferred active saints such as Saint Elizabeth...characteristic of the child saint (Saints and Society: The Two Worlds...
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Rice, Resistance, and Forced Transatlantic Communities: (Re)envisioning the African Diaspora in Low Country Georgia, 1750-1800
Journal article by Karen B. Bell; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 95, 2010
Subjects: African diaspora--History, African diaspora--Social aspects, Community--Social aspects, Georgia--History, Rice farming--History, Slavery--History
...slave forts along the West African coast such as Saint James in the Gambia, Saint Louis in Senegal, and Goree Island off the coast...Eliza Butler, made at least one recorded voyage to Saint Christophers in the West Indies returning with five...
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The Second Slavery: Modernity in the Nineteenth-Century South and the Atlantic World
Journal article by Anthony E. Kaye; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 75, 2009
Subjects: America--History, Slavery--History
...outset of the Haitian Revolution in 1791, Saint Domingue was the leading producer of coffee...farmers. As Cuban planters aimed to replace Saint Domingue in the sugar market, Brazilians...had surpassed the peaks of production in Saint Domingue and Jamaica. During the 1840s...
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Introduction: Ending the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Bicentennial Research, Reflections, and Commemorations
Journal article by V.P. Franklin; The Journal of African American History, Vol. 93, 2008
Subjects: Black history, Blacks--History, Slave trade--History, United States history, 1789-1817 (Early republic), United States history--1783-1865
...light of the successful slave revolt on Saint Domingue leading to the birth of Haiti...prizewinning book on "The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought...of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought...
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French Royal Symbol Rulers and Their Clever Use of Words
Journal article by Martin H. Levinson; ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 66, 2009
Subjects: Kings and rulers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Kings--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Maupassant, Guy de--Criticism and interpretation, Maupassant, Guy de--Works, Novelists--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Works, Symbolism--Analysis
...Catholicism at the behest of his Catholic wife Clotilda exclaimed, "Oh, why could I not be...says that Louis IX (1214-1270) was a saint (Pope Boniface VIII canonized him in...Griffin, 2004. (10.) Suger, Abbot of Saint Denis. The Deeds of Louis the Fat. Translated...
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From a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Magazine article by R. Daniel Foster; The Advocate, June 8, 1999
Subjects: Gays--Psychological aspects, Prophet, Elizabeth Clare--Public opinion
...notables as Jesus, Buddha, Hercules, Saint Germain, and K-17, head of the Cosmic...reincarnation of Helen of Troy, Marie Antoinette, Saint Clare, Empress Mumtaz Mahal, Queen Guinevere, Queen Clotilda, the queen of Sheba, and Queen Nefertiti...


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encyclopedia articles on: Clotilda Saint  - 1 result

 
 
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Clotilda, Saint
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CLOTILDA, SAINT kl til d , d. 545, Frankish queen. She converted her husband, Clovis I , to Christianity and built with him in Paris the Church...


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