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World Toleration Celebrated In Maryland's 300th Year
Maryland marked 300 years since the Act of Toleration with leaders like Governor William Preston Lane Jr. praising religious freedom. Observances centered at St. Mary’s Seminary recalled the 1649 act that protected free exercise of religion but noted it applied to Christians, a seed for later constitutional freedoms.
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Maryland
T. Mary’s City
Free State of Maryland
William Preston Lane Jr
U. S
George L. Radcliffe
State Department
Voice of America
St. Mary’s Seminary
St. Mary’s
Leonard Calvert
Lord Baltimore
Potomac