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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ven. John Pibush". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company. The entry cites: - Thomas Francis Knox, Douay Diaries (London, 1878), 169, 179, 198, 212, 214, 222;
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