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5 unusual facts about Laus


Bienvenu de Miollis

Myriel used his own silver candlesticks to redeem Jean Valjean; and, Miollis used his own silver coin to redeem the church and the presbytery of the sanctuary of Notre-Dame du Laus.

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After he had been appointed to Digne in 1805, Bishop de Miollis at his own expense bought back the church and the presbytery of the sanctuary of Notre-Dame du Laus, which had been confiscated during the French Revolution.

Laus

Paul Laus (born 1970), former professional ice hockey player

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Saint-Étienne-le-Laus, an administrative division in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France

Roman Catholic Marian churches

Again, in this case, a young Benoite Rencurel (who could not read or write) reported that a lady in white appeared to her on a remote mountain top in Saint-Étienne-le-Laus and asked her for a church to be built there.



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