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LAZARIST

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Laz"a*rist\, Lazarite \Laz"a*rite\, n. (R. C. Ch.)
One of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission, a
religious institute founded by Vincent de Paul in 1624, and
popularly called Lazarists or Lazarites from the College of
St. Lazare in Paris, which was occupied by them until 1792.
 

 

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