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- 1 2 Margaret R Bunson, Matthew Bunson, Stephen Bunson (2003). Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia Of Saints - Revised. Our Sunday Visitor Publishing. p. 1008. ISBN 1-931709-75-0.
- 1 2 Watkins, Basil, ed. (2002). Book of Saints (Reference) (7th ed.). A&C Black. pp. 655. ISBN 0713653000.
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