Word: potentian
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...town beneath it to heaven with its spires, the new church was the seventh to rise upon the sacred spot-sacred to the Druids for its shrine to the mysterious "Virgin Who Shall Bear a Son," sacred later to the Christians as a place of prayer built by Saints Potentian and Albin. Before King Louis on that dedication day in 1260, a great cross was drawn on the cathedral floor with ashes, and the people of Chartres who had labored on it for 65 years rejoiced at the house they had built for their Virgin...
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