Celestine Raalte is a writer and performance artist from Suriname living in the Netherlands. Her work first appeared in the 1981 anthology Tide tamara, Dichten voor het volk. Raalte moved to Utrecht in 1986. In 1989, she published her first collection of poems Akwenda / Streven. That was followed by Ma Awitya in 1997. Both works also appeared in Dutch. Celestine Raalte has published both in Dutch as Sranan Tongo. In 1997, she received the Kwakoe Award for her contribution to Surinamese art. In 2010, she was named an Officer in the Surinamese Honorary Order of the Yellow Star.
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Celestine Gonzaga-Soriano, better known as Toni Gonzaga, is a Filipino singer, host, actress, producer, vlogger and entrepreneur. Referred as the country's "Ultimate Multimedia Superstar" by various media outlets, she is the former lead host of long-running reality show, Pinoy Big Brother.
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There have been five Popes Celestine of the Roman Catholic Church: Pope Celestine I (422–432) Antipope Celestine II (1124) Pope Celestine II (1143–1144) Pope Celestine III (1191–1198) Pope Celestine IV (1241) Pope Celestine V (1294)
There was a darling series of books when I was a little girl involving a mouse named Celestine. Again, definitely a girl's name, and a nice one as well.
In 1997, she received the Kwakoe Award for her contribution to Surinamese art. In 2010, she was named an Officer in the Surinamese Honorary Order of the Yellow Star.