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... that despite nine hundred Roman Catholic churches being built in England in the fifty years after 1791, St John the Baptist's Church (pictured) in Brighton was only the fourth to be consecrated since the Reformation?
... that in 1847 French Admiral Jean-Baptiste Cécille sent a captain to attack Vietnam to obtain the release of a bishop, not knowing the bishop had already been freed?
... that after Roche MacGeoghegan, Bishop of Kildare, died in 1644, his library was divided between his diocese and the Dominican Order?