Gregory XVI had confirmed for Goa the Benedictine José Maria da Silva Torres under somewhat ambiguous conditions. The Pope publicly recognized the Portuguese rights of patronage in the Estado da India but in a private letter to the new ...
7. Steven B. Oppenheimer and George Lefever Jr. , Introduction to Embryonic Development , 2d ed . ( Boston : Allyn and Bacon , 1984 ) , 87 . 8. Ibid . , 87 . 9. Bruce M. Carlson , Patten's Foundations of Embryology , 5th ed .
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