quincentenary
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The Guadalupana Intercontinental Novena, or series of special prayers, begins leading up to the 2031 quincentenary observance of the apparition.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
If you fancy finding out more about Leonardo, why not visit one of the many exhibitions that are running in this quincentenary year?
From The Guardian ● Apr. 22, 2019
And with the quincentenary of Thomas More’s Utopia falling this year, the parlour game is again being dusted off.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 24, 2016
As much as the quincentenary of its "encounter" with America, this country of 39 million is celebrating -- with justifiable swagger -- its breakneck pace of change since General Francisco Franco's death in 1975.
From Time Magazine Archive
The full power of his genius was only revealed to the world when, at the quincentenary celebration of his birth, the greater part of his life-work was brought together in Florence.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various
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