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    Désiré Félicien François Joseph Mercier (21 November 1851 – 23 January 1926) was a Belgian cardinal of the Catholic Church and a noted scholar. A Thomist...
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  • and impressionist Désiré-Joseph Mercier (1851–1926) Belgian cardinal Émile Mercier (archer), French archer and Olympian Emile Mercier (cartoonist) (1901–1981)...
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    Vallée-Poussin. He was ordained as a priest on 22 September 1923 by Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier. In 1923, he became a research associate in astronomy at the University...
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  • at KU Leuven. The prize is named after the theologian Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier and has been won by Fulton J. Sheen in 1923, John F. Wippel in 1981...
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    from the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches hosted by Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier, from 1921 to 1926, but for which he was less supportive. He became...
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    Benedictus PP. XVI; Italian: Benedetto XVI; German: Benedikt XVI; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger; 16 April 1927 – 31 December 2022) was the head of the...
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    musicologist and composer (c. 1435–1511), was born in the municipality. Désiré-Joseph Mercier, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and national hero (1851–1926)...
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    of his diocese. He was instrumental in the 1882 appointment of Désiré-Joseph Mercier to a new Chair of Thomist Philosophy established at the Catholic...
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    Belgians Ferenc Mádl Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Ivan Mazepa Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier Lennart Meri Alexandre Millerand Roh Moo-hyun Benito Mussolini Sergio...
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    policies of Pius X, other cardinals such as Andrea Carlo Ferrari and Désiré-Joseph Mercier believed that the new pope needed to focus not on Modernism and...
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