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…up to the Twelfth Year. In the year 1602, on the second day of May, at the third 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…
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