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A14418 An appendix of the saints lately canonized, and beatifyed by Paule the fift, and Gregorie the Fifteenth Kinsman, Edward.; Villegas, Alonso de, b. 1534. Flos sanctorum. 1624 (1624) STC 24738; ESTC S119155 96,102 310

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