FACTOID #8:Israel's per capita military expenditure is the highest in the world, at over $1,400 per person. Syria, still officially at war with Israel, spends $46.51 per person on its military.
Sint-Truiden (also Saint-Trond) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg, near the town of Hasselt and Tongeren (Tongres). On January 1st, 2004 Sint-Truiden had a total population of 37,722 (18,582 males and 19,140 females). The total area is 106.90 kmē which gives a population density of 352.88 inhabitants per kmē.
The municipality formed around an abbey founded by St. Trudo in the 1600s. It is now noted for a 13th-century Beguinage church and the 15th-century Church of Notre Dame.
He succeeded St. Boniface as bishop of Metz, where he worked with such zeal that he was called "the pride of the episcopate." He continued the reforms begun by St. Boniface and gave the canons of his cathedral a rule for the common life, which was based on the Rule of St. Augustine.
It was a double cloister in which the nuns lived according to the Rule of St. Benedict, the lay brothers according to the Statutes of the Cistercians and the canons according to the Rule of St. Augustine.
Like St. Vincent de Paul, he is a sign of the flowering of sanctity that occurred in France in the generation born after the reforms of the Council of Trent.
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