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Pope Alexander VI sent explorers to evangelize the New World
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Francis Xavier baptized many people in Goa and Japan
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Galileo Galilei proved the theory that the Earth revolves around the sun
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Pope Gregory XV founded the Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith
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George Calvert establish Mary Land
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William Penn founded Pennsylvania
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King Louis XIV was the absolute monarch of France, the leading catholic country in the world. He made the French bishops sign the Gallican Articles.
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King Joseph II abolished monasteries and put the state in charge of seminaries
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Pope Pius VI began to organize the Church in America and chose Father John Carroll to be the "Superior of the Mission"
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Bishop John Carroll was ordained the first bishop of Baltimore, Maryland and founded the first Catholic college in the United States, Georgetown University
