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Monday, June 16th, 2025
the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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Pitris
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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E . Fathers), in the Hindu mythology an order of divine beings, and equal to the greatest of the gods, who, by their sacrifice, delivered the world from chaos, gave birth to the sun and kindled the stars, and in whose company the dead, who have like them lived self-sacrificingly, enter when they lay aside mortality. See Rev. vii. 14.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Pitris'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/pitris.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Pitris'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/p/pitris.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
