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the Third Week after Epiphany
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Commissariat of the Holy Land
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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The territory or district assigned to a commissary of the Friars Minor for the purpose of collecting alms for the maintenance of the Holy Places in Palestine; also, the convent where the aforesaid commissary resides. Annual collections for the Holy Land, taken up in each diocese of a commissariat, are conveyed through the commissary to Jerusalem. There are 40 commissariats throughout the Christian world, seven in English-speaking countries; in the United States one is established at Mount Saint Sepulcher, Washington, DC.
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Entry for 'Commissariat of the Holy Land'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/c/commissariat-of-the-holy-land.html. 1910.
Entry for 'Commissariat of the Holy Land'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/c/commissariat-of-the-holy-land.html. 1910.
