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Chur 1640

Drawing: View of the City of Chur, Switzerland 1640

Drawing: View of the City of Chur, Switzerland 1640

From Wikipedia: Several holy and extraordinary men have contributed to the splendour of the Diocese of Chur. Four of its bishops are honoured as saints: St. Asimo (c. 450), St. Valentinian (530-48), St. Ursicinus (d. 760), and St. Adalbert (1151–60). Fidelis of Sigmaringen, a Capuchin priest sent to convert the local Protestant population during a period of Austrian military occupation in 1621, was martyred in the see, in the village of Seewis, in 1622.

 

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