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Casimir I the Restorer

According to some older sources he initially wanted to have a career in the Church (it is probable that he held the post of Oblate) and even asked for a dispensation to became a monk.

Clara Nordström

Round about 1950 she again moved to Stuttgart and took orders ("Oblatin" of St. Benedict) in the convent of Neresheim.

Humbert of Silva Candida

When he was 15 years old, he was given by his parents to the monastery of Moyenmoutier in Lorraine, as an oblate, intended for monastic life.

L'Oblat

In L'Oblat, Durtal becomes an oblate, reflecting Huysmans' own experiences in the religious community at Ligugé.


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Benedictine Women of Madison

Other groups involved in Holy Wisdom Monastery include the Oblates and the Community of Benedict, two different groups of single and married people from many religious traditions who follow the Rule of St. Benedict in their daily lives; and Sunday Assembly, which gathers on Sunday mornings for an ecumenical Christian worship service.

Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious

Blessed Louis Brisson, main founder of both congregations: Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales and Oblates of St. Francis de Sales.

Ferocactus viridescens

This cactus is spherical, oblate, or nearly cylindrical, is usually wider than tall, and less than 30 centimeters in height.

Fort Smith, Northwest Territories

Fort Smith Mission Park is a popular tourist attraction featuring historic buildings and a grotto from the Oblate Catholic Mission.

Frank Kacmarcik

Frank Kacmarcik (1920 St. Paul, Minnesota – 2004 Collegeville, Minnesota) was an American designer, in later life a Benedictine Oblate, and a leader in the Liturgical Movement.

Giuseppe Maria Bozzi

He exercised his ministry in the Milanese monastery of St. Eustorgius, in the college of the oblates of Rho, and as provost in the parish church of his native Rosata.

Józef Cebula

On 4 May 1940, the Oblate novices at Markowice were arrested by the Nazis and sent to the concentration camp at Dachau in Upper Bavaria, Germany.

Kiffa beads

Kiffa beads were made in various shapes: blue, red, and polychromatic triangles with yellow, black, white, red and blue chevron-type and decorations that resemble eyes; blue, red and polychromatic diamond shaped beads; cigar shaped and conical beads as well as a variety of small spherical and oblate beads.

Methye Portage

Along the Portage Trail there were marked graves from the fur trade era according to the following Oblate account written in 1933 by Father Louis Moraud (translation).

Minute of arc

The exact distance varies along meridians because the shape of the Earth is slightly oblate.

Mission, Calgary

In 1883, Oblate missionary Father Albert Lacombe, returning after a ten-year absence, obtained two quarter sections of land for a "Mission district" to ensure a strong French speaking Catholic community.

Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate

Notre Dame Broadcasting Corporation, a broadcasting network managed by the Philippine branch of the oblate

Oblate

An oblate in Christian monasticism (especially Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican) is a person who is specifically dedicated to God or to God's service.

Oblate Sisters of Providence

The Oblate Sisters continue in Baltimore, Maryland, Miami, Florida, Buffalo, New York, Alajuela and Siquirres, Costa Rica.

Oblate spheroid

The oblate spheroid is the approximate shape of many planets and celestial bodies, including Saturn and Altair;

An everyday example of an oblate spheroid is the shape of confectionery such as Smarties or M&M's.

Oval

The shape of an egg is approximately half of each of a prolate (long) and a roughly spherical (potentially even slightly oblate/short) ellipsoid joined at the equator, sharing a principal axis of rotational symmetry, as illustrated above.

Pessamit, Quebec

The Innu and Oblate missionaries used Betsiamites, whereas Bersimis was preferred by Admiral Henry Wolsey Bayfield during his hydrographic surveys of the St. Lawrence and by the Hudson's Bay Company.

Rhombic icosahedron

A rhombic icosahedron (or rhombic icosacontahedron) is a polyhedron shaped like an oblate sphere.

United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station

Complete catalogs require much study of binary/multiple, flare, oblate, starspot-laden stars, and astrometrically extended objects, in addition to the classically 'simple', spheroidally shaped single stars.