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Birgitta

(bɪəˈɡɪtə)
n
(Biography) Saint Birgitta See Bridget2
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Like the Benedictine nuns of Cambrai and Paris, the English Brigittine community of Syon, which finally settled in Spanish-controlled Lisbon, was engaged in developing a form of oppositional nationalism, influenced by St Birgitta. The Lisbon Brigittines had connections with Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza who entered England in 1605 to advance the Catholic cause.
According to a statement released by PACE office in Ankara, Cavusoglu will meet Swedish Minister for EU Affairs Birgitta Ohlsson and PACE Swedish Delegation.
Birgitta of Sweden were first printed in Lubeck in 1492 at the press of Bartholomaeus Ghotan in an edition that was commissioned by the mother-house of the Birgittine order at Vadstena in Sweden.
We thank Anna Musku and Birgitta Aittanen for technical assistance.
Now Birgitta Json Lagerkvist of Umea University in Sweden and colleagues present findings that complicate that idea [EHP 112:1768-1771].
The 29-year-old, who has lived in the country for eight years, had enjoyed a night out at trendy nightclub Traffic with his 24--year-old girlfriend, Birgitta Karadottir.
The rapporteur, Finnish Member Ulla Birgitta Sirkeinen (Group I - Employers), wants to see a harmonised European support regime for renewables, because national systems are too disparate and because none, she claims, are perfect.
The 22-year-old hit the front on the 3-1 shot at the two-furlong marker and the winner kept on to score by half a length from Lady Birgitta.
Birgitta Lundberg, custodian of Coventry's "at risk" register, said: "While the number of children on the register had been reducing, in the past year we have seen the pattern reverse.
And Torsby's mayor Birgitta Halvarsson, an old friend of Sven Goran, said she was on Cloud Nine after the Munich result.
15 (Petra) -- Minister of Water and Irrigation, Raed Abu Soud, and German ambassador, Birgitta Maria Siefker-Eberle, Tuesday lead a celebration at the Al Hussein Youth City to mark 60 years of German-Jordanian relations.
Capio AB (STO:CAPIO), a provider of a range of medical, surgical and psychiatric healthcare services, announced on Friday the proposal by its nomination committee to re-elect all of the members of its board of directors, namely Michael Wolf, Gunnar Nemeth, Birgitta Stymne Goransson, Pascale Richetta, Michael Flemming, Gunilla Rudebjer, Joakim Rubin and Hans Ramel, to the Annual General Meeting on 3 May 2018.