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- ↑ Joris Van Eijnatten; Frederik A. van Lieburg (2011). Niederländische Religionsgeschichte (in Dutch). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. pp. 359–. ISBN 978-3-525-54004-6 . Retrieved 31 July 2013.
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