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Jeffrey Meyvaert in the United Kingdom on November 12, 1921; his mother was British, his father, whom he barely knew, was Belgian. His mother was very religious; she raised him in England, Belgium, and Ireland, with an eye on his entering a religious vocation. When he entered the
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