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November 21 - The four Gospels of the Bible say nothing about the life of the Virgin Mary, but the apocryphal book called Protegospel of James fills this gap. Protévangile means "First Gospel".
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November 20 - Edmond was born 841 in Norbury. He is the son of Æthelweard, in Kent, a descendant of the Saxon kings of East Anglia. At the age of fourteen, he was chosen by King Æthelstan to succeed him as head of the kingdom, because this king was going to live as a hermit in the Holy Land, to end his life in prayer and repentance.
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19 November - Gurguy, or Tanguy is the son of Galonus, lord of Trémazan, on his first wedding day. Galonus went to look for a new wife, but this woman ruddered and mistreated the children like a real stepmother for eight years. Gurguy, already grown up, asked his father for leave and went to the court of King Childebert, where he stayed for twelve years.
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18th November - Odon is born around 882. He comes from a noble Frankish family. He was sent to the court of the Count of Anjou, then to that of the Duke of Aquitaine William I the Pious to receive an education as a knight. He learned music and dialectics in Paris, where he was a pupil of Rémi, Bishop of Auxerre.
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November 17 - Elizabeth of Hungary, daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary, was born in Pressburg, Hungary on July 7, 1207. Engaged at four years of age and married at fourteen to Landgrave Louis IV of Thuringia, she became aware of the movement founded in Italy by Francis of Assisi, to which she adhered from the depths of her soul.
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16 November - Gertrude was born on 6 January 1256 in Eisleben, Thuringia. At the age of five, she was entrusted to the care of the Cistercian nuns of the monastery of Helfta in what is now Saxony-Anhalt. Mechtilde of Hackeborn, who, at the age of 20, took over Gertrude's education.
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15 November - Albert the Great is born Albrecht von Bollstädt in Lauingen, Swabia in 1193. He introduced Greek and Arabic sciences into the universities of Europe. He is already nicknamed "the Great" during his lifetime.
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November 14 - Joseph Pignatelli, born in Zaragoza, Spain, on December 27, 1737, came from families of great nobility, both on the side of his Italian father, Antonio Pignatelli, and his Spanish mother, Francesca Moncayo-Fernandez de Heredia. He lost his mother at the age of 4 and was raised in Naples.
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13 November - St. Stanislaus Kostka, born 28 October 1550 in Rostkowo, Poland, belongs to a Catholic noble family from Mazovia, Poland, whose members held important positions in the government of Poland.
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12 November - Jehoshaphat, born Ivan Kountsevich in Volhynia, Ukraine, in 1584. He was still very young at the time of the Union of Brest in 1596 when part of the Church of Ruthenia was attached to Rome and constituted the Greek-Catholic Church or Ruthenian Church.
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11 November - Martin was born in the year 316 in Pannonia, in the city of Sabaria, now the city of Szombathely, Hungary. His father was a military tribune of the Roman Empire, i.e. a senior officer in charge of the administration of the army. It is probably no coincidence that Martin's name means "dedicated to Mars", Mars being the god of war in Rome.
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10th November - Leon was born towards the end of the 4th century, some say he was born in Tuscany, some say in Rome. Other documents say it was in Etruria. His father's name was Quintianus and the story of his childhood is not well known but his first known history dates back to 418. He was then an acolyte to Pope Zosimus.
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