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Current:- Pious Fund of the Californias, The
Nearby ArticlesFernao Mendes Pinto - Portuguese traveller, b. at Montemor-o-Velho near Coimbra, c. 1509; d. at Almada near Lisbon, July 8, 1583 Pinturicchio - Surnamed Pinturiccijio, b. at Verona, about 1454; d. at Siena, December 11, 1513 Martin Alonso Pinzon - Spanish navigator and companion of Columbus on his first voyage to the New World, b. at Palos de Moguer, 1441; d. there at the convent of La Rabida, 1493 Sebastian Del Piombo - More correctly known as Sebastian Luciani, Venetian portrait painter, b. at Venice, 1485; d. in Rome, 1547 Pionius, Saint - Martyred at Smyrna, March 12, 250 Pious Fund of the Californias, The - Had its origin, in 1697, in voluntary donations made by individuals and religious bodies in Mexico to members of the Society of Jesus, to enable them to propagate the Catholic Faith in the territory then known as California
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