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- ↑ Vatican Council , as it appeared in the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
- ↑ Caiazzo, Michael and Monika K. Hellwig. "The Modern Catholic Encyclopedia", 2004
- ↑ "Bishop Luigi Riccio [Catholic-Hierarchy]".
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