DAVENPORT – State College of Jova.
of money, sums which they later recovered through the intervention of various persons and in particular of Miss Anna di Melun, princess d’Epinoy, who had become a Hospitaller religious. The process for the beatification of D. and Ferre has been deposited with the Sacred Congregation of Rites.
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