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Saint John  ( Kovalevsky )  of Saint-Denis  (April 8, 1905-January 30, 1970), was the First Hierarch of the  Orthodox Church of France  (ECOF) from 1966 until his death in 1970. He was canonised as a saint of the Orthodox Church on 12 October 2008 by Bishop Gregory of Arles. Contents    [ hide ]  1 Life 2 Death and Canonisation 3 Writings 4 References 5 External links Life [ edit ] St John was born  Eugraph Kovalevsky  in St Petersburg, Russia, on April 8, 1905. He was the brother of the  deacon  and musicologist Maxime Kovalevsky (1903-1988) and the historian Pierre Kovalevsky (1901-1979). He was co-founder with  Vladimir Lossky  of the  Brotherhood of St. Photius  (1925) and the  St Denys Institute  (1944). He was ordained a  priest  of the  Moscow Patriarchate  by  Metropolitan  Eleutherius (Bogoyavlenky) in 1937. Upon the death of  Archim...

Jane Bathori  (born  Jeanne-Marie Berthier , June 14, 1877 – January 25, 1970) was a French  mezzo-soprano . She was famous on the operatic stage and important in the development of contemporary French music. Life and career [ edit ] Bathori originally studied piano and planned a career as concert pianist but soon turned to singing, making her professional debut sometime in 1898 at the small  Théâtre de la Bodinière  in the  rue Saint-Lazare  in a concert to celebrate the poet  Paul Verlaine . [1]  In the same year she made her debut in the  grands concerts  at the  Concerts du Conservatoire  followed by performances in  Fauré 's  La Naissance de Vénus  and  Saint-Saëns 's  Messe de Requiem . During the season 1899–1900 she made her operatic debut at  Nantes . [2]  Her first roles included  soprano  parts such as Mimi in  La bohème  and Micaëla in  Carmen . [...

Jean Etienne Valluy  (15 May 1899 – 4 January 1970) was a  French   general . Contents    [ hide ]  1 Early life 2 Military career 2.1 World War I 2.2 World War II 2.3 Indochina 2.4 Post Indochina 3 References Early life [ edit ] He was born in  Rive-de-Gier ,  Loire , on 15 May 1899 to Claude (Claudius) Valluy and Jeanne, Adrienne Cossanges. Military career [ edit ] World War I [ edit ] In 1917 he entered the military academy of  Saint-Cyr . He left as “ Aspirant ” in July 1918 and joined the  Régiment d'Infanterie Coloniale du Maroc (RICM)  in August 1918. He took part in the last four months of the First World War, where he was wounded in the neck and received the first of his citations which included the  Croix de Guerre . [1] :168 World War II [ edit ] At the outbreak of the war, Valluy was a Major and operations officer with the XX1 Corps, captured by the Germans he was released in 1941...