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Emmaus

American  
[uh-may-uhs] / əˈmeɪ əs /

noun

  1. a city in E Pennsylvania.


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The Abbé Pierre Foundation is to be retitled, while the board of Emmaus France is to vote on removing the priest’s name from its logo.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024

The news was broken by the Emmaus anti-poverty movement which he founded.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2024

She paid attention to a Biden visit earlier this year to a nearby town, Emmaus, where he stopped at local stores to discuss the importance of supporting small businesses.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2024

In Emmaus, Biden recounted to reporters that one of the business owners he spoke with had confided to him that “I can look at my kid now and say: ‘It’s going to be OK.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2024

The veil that hid the true Christ, as Mr. Ruskin has well remarked, was removed in the breaking of bread with the disciples at Emmaus.

From Letters to the Clergy On The Lord's Prayer and the Church by John Ruskin

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