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nativity

Christian festival celebrating a birth: Christmas has been celebrated on 25 December from AD 336 in memory of the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem; Nativity of the Virgin Mary is celebrated on 8 September by the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches; Nativity of John the Baptist is celebrated on 24 June by the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican churches.



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Pena, that the Queen Mother, who was given to curious arts, caused the King her husband's nativity to be calculated, under a false name; and the astrologer gave a judgment, that he should be killed in a duel; at which the Queen laughed, thinking her husband to be above challenges and duels: but he was slain upon a course at tilt, the splinters of the staff of Montgomery going in at his beaver.
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These bells reminded Pierre that it was Sunday and the feast of the Nativity of the Virgin.
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In Missouri a recognized superiority attached to any person who hailed from Old Virginia; and this superiority was exalted to supremacy when a person of such nativity could also prove descent from the First Families of that great commonwealth.
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