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…hour after midnight, on the very feast day of St. Athanasius, I was brought forth into the common air of suffering in Geisa, a town distant three hours’ journey from Fulda, by my parents Johann Kircher and Anna Ganskin, Catholics and most devoted to divine worship and pious works. At that time, my father was holding the office of prefect in Haselstein,…
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