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- An association organized in 1878 to promote the interests of the Catholic press, particularly the daily press, of Germany.
- An Eastern saint whose veneration was transplanted from the Byzantine empire to Rome, whence it spread throughout western Christendom.
- Humanist, and translator of Aristotle, born at Constantinople, 1416; died at Rome about 1486.
- A former Cistercian monastery near Landelies on the Sambre in the Diocese of Liège.
- Name of several Italian cardinals.
- An Irish Jesuit, whose name is sometimes given as Archdekin or Arsdekin. (1620-1693)
- The name given to a thirteenth century code of rules for the life of anchoresses, which is sometimes called "The Nuns' Rule".
- The second successor of St. Peter.
- A theologian and Church historian of the latter part of the twelfth century.
- Baronius places this bishop in the Roman martyrology, Tillemont is inclined to believe that Auxentius was an Arian.
- Discusses forms used to get the most use from scarce and costly materials.
- In the diocese of Sion, Switzerland, owes its fame to an event related by St. Eucherius, Bishop of Lyons, the martyrdom of a Roman legion, known as the "Theban Legion", at the beginning of the fourth century.
- A Mexican see dependent on Guadalaxara; erected by Leo XIII.
- A term applied to the condition of certain ecclesiastics in regard to their benefices or offices.
- A French historian and theologian, of the Order of St. Dominic. (1639-1724)
- A sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin at Ambronay, France, regarded as one of the two candles of devotion to Our Lady in the Diocese of Belley.
- Concerns a correspondence that took place between God and the local potentate at Edessa.
- Philosopher, born at Stagira, a Grecian colony in the Thracian peninsula Chalcidice, 384 B.C.; died at Chalcis, in Euboea, 322 B.C.
- The supposed science which determines the influence of the stars, especially of the five older planets, on the fate of man.
- Theologian, b. of a Roman senatorial family early in the thirteenth century; d. at Rome, 1 September, 1271.
- A son of Ner, a cousin of Saul, and commander-in-chief of Saul's army.
- Historian, born at Vera Cruz, in Mexico, or New Spain, 12 November, 1729; died at Bologna, 16 August, 1788.
- Those who make an abridgment or abstract of a long writing or discourse.
- Jointly with Father Jose de Acosta, directed the publication of catechisms and textbooks of Christian doctrine for the use of the Indians.
- Vicariate Apostolic comprising the territory of the German Duchy of Anhalt.
- A sacerdotal association founded in 1868 at Vienna, and at first confined to that Archdiocese.
- Apostle of the Slavs, probably a native of Lorraine, d. 981.
- Information on three people with this name.
- Franciscan mystic. (1602-1665)
- Pietro Ottoboni, born at Venice, April, 1610; elected 5 October, 1689; died at Rome, 1 February, 1691.
- Theologian and poet, born at Leeds, 4 April, 1813; died at Hinckley (England), 5 October, 1872.
- A step behind the altar, raised slightly above it, for candlesticks, flowers, reliquaries, and other ornaments.
- Diocese comprising the Provincial District of Auckland (New Zealand), with its islets, and the Kermadec Group.
- Either, an appellation common to all Eastern ascetics known by the rigour of their vigils; or, a special order of Greek or Basilian monks devoting themselves to prayer and praise without intermission.
- Chiefly known as an ascetical writer, born in the Tyrol, 1612; died 6 December, 1686.
- A picture of some sacred subject painted on the wall or suspended in a frame behind the altar, or a group of statuary on the altar.
- A Bull of Pius IX (1846-78) which regulates anew the system of censures and reservations in the Catholic church.
- The European monarchy whose dominions have for their main life-distributing artery the River Danube, in its course from Engelhartszell, near Passau, to Orsova. South of the Danube lie the Austrian Alpine provinces and the provinces of Carinthia and Carnol
- A papal constitution dealing with admission to religious orders.
- A principle in psychology to account for the succession of mental states.
- A Spanish Franciscan of the seventeenth century.
- Dominican. (1220-1286)
- One of the four traditional divisions of the teaching body of the university.
- Son of Amri and King of Israel.
- The "Caeremoniale Episcoporum (I, xii, 13), treating of the ornaments of the altar, says that a canopy (baldachinum) should be suspended over the altar.
- Patrologist, b. at Nimeguen, in Holland, early in the sixteenth century; d. same place, in 1588.
- A most solemn fast, on which no food could be taken throughout the day, and servile works were forbidden.
- French linguist and writer. (1716-1792)
- Reigned 1522-1523.
- The name given to the author of a commentary on all the Epistles of St. Paul, with the exception of that to the Hebrews.
- Theologian. (1619-1693)
- Dutch poet and convert. (1622-1669)
- Priest and martyr. He was executed at Tyburn in the beginning of the year 1538.
- An English Catholic, executed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
- The Slavonic word for the square portion of bread cut from the first loaf in the preparation for Mass according to the Greek rite.
- Issued two editions of the Hebrew Bible.
- Dialectician, philosopher, and theologian. (1079-1142)
- Reigned 1254-61.
- An official of the Congregation of the Inquisition.
- Primarily, the smallest particle of matter which can exist.
- The episcopal see of the Azores, suffragan of Lisbon.
- English Benedictine. (1611-1671)
- Old Testament prophet.
- A Christological theory, according to which Christ had a human body and a human sensitive soul, but no human rational mind, the Divine Logos taking the place of this last.
- A French historian. (1723-1806)
- The incumbent of an ecclesiastical office dating back to antiquity and up to the fifteenth century of great importance in diocesan administration, particularly in the West.
- The daughter of Putiphare (Poti-phera), priest of On.
- Anti-Montanist Greek ecclesiastical writer, between 180 and 210.
- Born at Granada in Spain, probably 1514; died 1594.
- One of the conspicuous ecclesiastics in the troubles between the Holy See and Federick Barbarossa; date of birth uncertain; died 14 September, 1215.
- An Italian diocese in the Archdiocese of Ancona.
- Twelfth-century scholastic philosopher.
- Describes several biblical uses of the word.
- The title of a certain hymn or, an Office in the Greek Liturgy in honour of the Mother of God.
- A titular see of Lydia in Asia Minor.
- A titular see of Pamphylia in Asia Minor.
- Tragic poet of Italy. (1749-1803)
- Brother of Moses, and High Priest of the Old Law.
- A Frankish Bishop of the latter part of the seventh century.
- An altar is said to be privileged when, in addition to the ordinary fruits of the Eucharistic Sacrifice, a plenary indulgence is also granted whenever Mass is celebrated thereon.
- An absence of law.
- Certain revealed supernatural truths such as those contained in the symbol of the Apostles.
- In a broad sense, whatever is necessary to sustain human life: not merely food and drink, but lodging, clothing, care during sickness and burial.
- A technical expression used in scholastic philosophy.
- A titular see of Syria near Apameia.
- A titular metropolitan see of Cilicia (Lesser Armenia), suffragan of Antioch.
- A Byzantine historian and man of letters, born at Myrina in Asia Minor about 536.
- Those Jansenists who accepted the Bull Unigenitus, issued in 1713 against the Jansenist doctrines.
- An educator, scholar, and theologian born about 735; died 19 May, 804.
- The corporal, pall, purificator, and finger towels.
- A metaphorical term, used, as happens in all languages, to express the abstract notion of authority by the concrete name of the place in which it is exercised.
- Mentioned in Acts 11:28, and 21:10, as a prophet of the New Testament.
- Archbishop, of Trier born about 1080; died 1152.
- Written in the form of Avennio in the ancient texts and inscriptions, takes its name from the House, or Clan, Avennius.
- A South American diocese, dependent on San Salvador of Bahia.
- A martyr of the Faith in Lampsacus, a city of Mysia, in the persecution of Decius.
- Reigned 399-403.
- Fifth-century bishop.
- Florentine painter. (1387-1455)
- The receptions given by the pope to cardinals, sovereigns, princes, ambassadors, and other persons, ecclesiastical or lay, having business with or interest in the Holy See.
- Soldier, born at Quito, Ecuador, 1755.
- The title which was taken by Cardinal Pietro Pierleone at the contested papal election of the year 1130.
- Diocese comprising the Department of Haute-Savoie in France.
- The friend of Gregory VII and Anselm, conspicuous in the contest of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, as Bishop of Passau and Papal Legate.
- The name, before the Roman conquest in 146 B.C., of a strip of land between the gulf of Corinth and Elis and Arcadia, embracing twelve cities leagued together.
- An Eastern sect which flourished about A. D. 200 to 400, and which was so designated as being the "opponents of Mary".
- First martyr of Britain, suffered c. 304.
- A Prefecture Apostolic in the ecclesiastical province of Calcutta, India, established in 1889.
- Foundress of the Irish Sisters of Charity. (1787-1858)
- Abbot of Rievaulx, homilist and historian (1109-66).
- A miraculous shrine near Lur, France, containing a crypt (Sainte Chapelle) which tradition dates back to an early period.
- The name given to those who denied the omniscience either of God or of Christ.
- Military body of Portuguese knights.
- Outline of his life, with New and Old Testament views.
- Virgin and abbess. (c. 639-684)
- The adoption of man by God in virtue of which we become His sons and heirs.
- Convert, poet, controversialist, the son of a Lutheran Polish Nobleman. (1624-1677)
- Archdeacon of Fiesole, born probably at the beginning of the ninth century; died about 877.
- An heresiarch, born about A.D. 250; died 336.
- The family name of four generations of distinguished French artists, natives of Paris and Lyons, which included eight prominent engravers and two painters.
- A Bull issued by Pius VI, 28 August, 1794, in condemnation of the Gallican and Jansenist acts and tendencies of the Synod of Pistoia (1786).
- Centered in Adelaide, capital of South Australia.
- Painter, born at Dole, France, 31 July, 1702; died at Pekin, 8 December, 1768.
- A French word meaning primarily and strictly an abbot or superior of a monastery of men.
- Physician, mineralogist, historian, and controversialist. (1494-1555)
- A surname applied to the tribe of the Mexica, or Chichimeca Mexitin, which occupied aboriginal Mexico, in more or less contiguous groups, at the beginning of the sixteenth century, when the Spaniards first came into contact with them.
- The number of steps leading up to the high altar is for symbolical reasons uneven; usually three, five, or seven, including the upper platform.
- Includes history, education, and religious statistics.
- An Italian bishopric, suffragan to Venice.
- Missionary and explorer of Tibet in the seventeenth century.
- That part of the altar which faces the congregation.
- The popular designation of the doctrines held by a party formed in the early days of the seventeenth century among the Calvinists of the Netherlands.
- A peculiar service in the Greek Church performed as the concluding part of Vespers.
- A title given to the Kings of Hungary.
- The word is used only once in Sacred Scripture (Luke, xxii, 43) to designate the anguish of Our Lord in the Garden of Gethsemani.
- Cappadocian bishop.
- A name applied, in the Middle Ages, to certain lay persons, generally of noble birth, whose duty it was, under given conditions, to represent a particular church or monastery, and to defend its rights against force.
- Animal forms have always occupied a place of far greater importance than was ever accorded to them in the art of the pagan world.
- In 246 and 247 two councils were held at Bostra in Arabia against Beryllus, Bishop of the see, and others who maintained with him that the soul perished and arose again with the body.
- The Hail Mary (sometimes called the "Angelical salutation", sometimes, from the first words in its Latin form, the "Ave Maria") is the most familiar of all the prayers used by the Universal Church in honour of our Blessed Lady.
- A holy virgin who suffered martyrdom in Alexandria during a local uprising against the Christians previous to the persecution of Decius at the end of 248 or beginning of 249.
- The peninsular mass that the Asiatic continent projects westward of an imaginary line running from the Gulf of Alexandretta (Issus) on the Mediterranean to the vicinity of Trebizond (Trapezus) on the Black Sea.
- In theology, appropriation is used in speaking of the different Persons of the Trinity.
- A Danish prelate, also known as Axel. (1128-1201)
- The sacred books were composed by and for a people almost exclusively given to husbandry and pastoral life, hence in constant communication with nature.
- The Syrian houses in the region of Hauran were inhabited, from the third century to the seventh, by the upper and middle classes of the population. A house of this kind in perfect preservation is still to be seen at Amrah.
- A manuscript Scottish missal or mass-book, written in 1491 by James Sibbald, priest of Arbuthnott, in Scotland, for use in that church.
- Italian architect and sculptor. (1447-1522)
- Details on two places with this name.
- Saint Elphege, martyred Archbishop of Canterbury. (954-1012)
- One of the first great martyrs of the church.
- A Roman general, patrician, and consul, b. towards the end of the fourth century; d. 454.
- In the Old Testament God commanded that a lamp filled with the purest oil of olives should always burn in the Tabernacle of the Testimony without the veil.
- An open place or court before a church.
- The shiretown of the county of the same name in Nova Scotia.
- Founder of a Gnostic sect; died at an advanced age late in the second century.
- A white linen vestment with close fitting sleeves, reaching nearly to the ground and secured round the waist by a girdle.
- An Italian woman of remarkable intellectual gifts and attainments. Member of the Blue Nuns in Milan. (1718-1799)
- The word is used, in a technical sense, in the Hindu religion to denote the descent upon earth of a portion of the essence of a god, which then assumes some coarser material form, be it animal, monster, or man.
- Dominican promoter of the Rosary. (1428-1475)
- Employed from the fourth century as a symbol expressing the confidence of orthodox Christians in the scriptural proofs of Our Lord's divinity.
- Missionary to China. (1718-1793)
- Diocese comprising the entire counties of Albany, Columbia, Delaware, Fulton, Greene, Montgomery, Otsego, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Warren, Washington, and that part of Herkimer and Hamilton counties south of the northern line of the t
- Jesuit missionary and explorer. (1620-1689)
- Consists of three main divisions: North America, Central America, and South America.
- Several councils held here are detailed.
- An ornamental plant indigenous to middle Europe.
- A supposed secretary of Tiridates II, King of Armenia, under whose name there has come down a life of the first apostle of Armenia, Gregory the Illuminator, who died about 332.
- A titular see of Troas in Asia Minor, suffragan of Cyzicus in the Hellespontic province.
- A friend and fellow ascetic of Eustathius, who became Bishop of Sebaste (355), and who ordained Aërius and placed him over the hospital or asylum in that city.
- Roman virgin and martyr.
- Abbess, born in the tenth century. (d. 1015)
- Master of musical theory, and teacher of Hummel and Beethoven. (1736-1809)
- Generally considered a foundling; came to Panama in 1514 with Pedro Arias de Avila (D'Avila), and soon distinguished himself in military expeditions.
- Carmelite monk. (1302-1373)
- Archbishop of Prague. (1347-1427)
- Details of several councils held here.
- A Bull issued by Benedict XIV, 23 February, 1741, against secular pursuits on the part of the clergy.
- The Emperor Francis I of Austria, King Frederick William III of Prussia, and the Tsar Alexander I of Russia, signed a treaty on 26 September, 1815, by which they united in a "Holy Alliance."
- A Christian grammarian of the fourth century, first at Berytus in Phoenicia, then at Laodicea in Syria.
- Officials who attend to the sending of Bulls, Briefs, and Rescripts, that emanate from the Apostolic Chancery, the Dataria, the Sacred Paenitentiaria, and the Secretariate of Briefs.
- The word itself in its etymological sense, signifies the desertion of a post, the giving up of a state of life; he who voluntarily embraces a definite state of life cannot leave it, therefore, without becoming an apostate.
- Italian composer. (1593-1629)
- Arose in England on the appointment of George Blackwell as archpriest with jurisdiction over the secular clergy of England and Scotland, by the Holy See on 7 March, 1598.
- An Italian diocese immediately subject to the Holy See.
- The Greek Liturgy uses antiphons, not only in the Office, but also in the Mass, at Vespers, and at all the canonical Hours.
- Physicist and mathematician. (1775-1836)
- A Dominican friar, and a theologian of note, b. at Limerick, Ireland, early in the seventeenth century; d. (probably) 1670.
- Reigned 678-81.
- Virgins who consecrated themselves to God with a vow of chastity and associated with laymen.
- Name of several Bishops in the early Christian period.
- An act by which a bishop or other superior grants to an ecclesiastic the actual exercise of his ministry.
- Demon mentioned in the Book of Tobias.
- Born at Patrae, Greece, about 860.
- Merovingian bishop and statesman. (580-640)
- Martyred English priest. (d. 1586)
- English composer, b. 12 March 1710, at London; d. 5 March, 1778.
- In ecclesiastical terminology signifies the order or arrangement of the divine office and also, in a wide sense, the office itself.
- A cleric who puts into execution a papal rescript, completing what is necessary in order that it be effective.
- The capital, and second residential city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
- Biographer and ascetic writer.1590-1672)
- According to their Greek derivation these two terms refer to the origin of life.
- Missionary to Ethiopia. (1567-1628)
- English insurgent. (d. 1537)
- Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397.
- Enclosure, garden; the Garden of the Gods.
- The form, very likely foursquare, was not convenient for navigation, but, as has been proven by the experiments of Peter Jansen and M. Vogt, it made the Ark a very suitable device for shipping heavy cargoes and floating upon the waves without rolling or p
- A title given to the superior of a community of twelve or more monks.
- A kind of chest, measuring two cubits and a half in length, a cubit and a half in breadth, and a cubit and a half in height.
- Archbishop of Sens; d. 25 November 879, or 883.
- An antiphon so called from its first line, Ave regina caelorum (Hail, Queen of Heaven).
- Grand Master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, born 1423; died 1503.
- The property by which a being exists of and from itself.
- Fifth century Greek prelate.
- Bishop of Le Mans in the time of Louis le Debonnaire, born c. 800; died at Le Mans, 7 January, 856.
- Archbishop of Florence. (1389-1459)
- An English Catholic, b. 1557; d. 1618.
- Suffragan of Saint Boniface; erected 8 April, 1862, by Pius IX.
- Jesuit missionary in Scotland. (1532-1613)
- Method of acquiring ownership of a thing arising from the fact that it is in some way added to, or is the fruit of something already belonging to oneself.
- In 1172 (September 27-28) a Council was held at Avranches in France, apropos of the troubles caused in the English Church by the murder of St. Thomas Becket.
- An Italian diocese comprising twenty-seven towns and three villages in the province of Potenza and nine towns and one village in the province of Cosenza, Archdiocese of Acerenza.
- Writer, born at Lyons in 1793; died in Paris, 21 February, 1851.
- Received Holy Orders, and in 1819 became choirmaster at the cathedral, succeeding his father as organist, in 1832.
- A Reformed Minorite. (1834-1884)
- The sacred books of Parsees, or Zoroastrians, and the main source of our knowledge concerning the religious and spiritual life the ancient Persians.
- Roman Emperor. (138-161)
- Born 1256, in Borgo San Sepolero, Tuscany, Italy; d. there 31 August, 1315.
- Architect. (d. 1364)
- Titular See of Palestine.
- King of the West Saxons. (849-899)
- Mentioned in John 3:23, as the locality where the forerunner of Christ baptized.
- Details domestic, political, and sacred antiquities.
- French cardinal. (1772-1851)
- Roman martyrs. (d. 303)
- A celebrated Catholic physician of the seventeenth century, born at Limerick, 1593, died c. 1666.
- A solemn form of address or speech from the throne employed by the Pope on certain occasions.
- English Jesuit and writer, born in London, 26 December, 1816; died 28 July, 1890.
- Jesuit professor of humanities. (1737-1802)
- Article intended to give a rapid survey of the geography, ethnography, political and religious history of Asia, and especially of the rise, progress, and actual condition of Asiatic Christianity and Catholicism.
- Diocese in Umbria.
- Developed from the already existing schools of the city, was formally constituted in 1303, by a Bull of Boniface VIII.
- Spanish theologian, born about 1550; died At Trani, Kingdom of Naples, 1635.
- A Christian apologist of the second half of the second century of whom no more is known than that he was an Athenian philosopher and a convert to Christianity.
- A neo-Manichæan sect that flourished in southern France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
- A Semitic term meaning mother, adopted by the Copts and the Greeks as a title of honour applied to religious and ladies of high rank.
- Scripture recognizes affinity as an impediment to wedlock.
- Fourth-century Cappadocian bishop.
- An early Jesuit missionary in Maryland; born in Ireland, 1742; died in Maryland, 1814, or 1815.
- Eighteenth Archbishop of Magdeburg in Saxony, date of birth unknown; d. 1232.
- The author of the homilies in Anglo-Saxon, a translator of Holy Scripture, and a writer upon many miscellaneous subjects.
- A name given in the history of theology to the doctrine which teaches that a time will come when all free creatures will share in the grace of salvation; in a special way, the devils and lost souls.
- High-priest, the leader of the hellenizing party in the time of Judas Machabeus.
- The Order of St. Ambrose was the name of two religious congregations, one of men and one of women, founded in the neighbourhood of Milan during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
- English writer. (1813-1903)
- Spanish Jesuit philologist. (1715-1799)
- An Italian bishopric under the immediate jurisdiction of the Holy See, comprising seven towns in the Province of Rome.
- A bishop of Caria in Syria; d., probably, in 770.
- A false claimant of the Holy See in opposition to a pontiff canonically elected.
- Name of several medieval figures.
- The oldest fresco in which an angel appears is the Annunciation scene (second century) of the cemetery of St. Priscilla.
- A title often given to a deceased woman in early Christian inscriptions.
- Placed in the Roman Martyrology by Gregory XIII, in 1584, the evidence of his sanctity being sufficiently clear from the account of his life by St. Augustine.
- Roman martyr.
- Born at Brescia towards the end of the eleventh century, date of death uncertain.
- Bishop of Laodicea in Syria. (d. 283)
- A series of medieval councils.
- In general it signifies any altar of which the Blessed Virgin is the titular.
- Wine is one of the two elements absolutely necessary for the sacrifice of the Eucharist. For valid and licit consecration vinum de vite, i.e. the pure juice of the grape naturally and properly fermented, is to be used.
- Seventh century Greek writer.
- Located in Denmark.
- Spanish naturalist, b. at Barbunales in Aragon, 18 May, 1746; d. 1811.
- Catholic theologian and popular writer. (1794-1843)
- A supernatural gift of God to intellectual creatures (men, angels) for their eternal salvation.
- A form of dramatic literature which is peculiar to Spain, though in some respects similar in character to the old Morality plays of England.
- Bishop of Auxerre, Grand Almoner of France. (1513-1593)
- Two famous Greeks of the later Byzantine period.
- A Bull issued by Clement XIII, 12 January, 1765, in defense of the Society of Jesus against the attacks made upon it.
- S. Maria dell' Anima, the German national church and hospice in Rome, received its name, according to tradition, from the picture of Our Lady which forms its coat of arms.
- A small bell placed on the credence or in some other convenient place on the epistle side of the altar.
- An Encyclical Letter on Christian marriage, issued 10 February, 1880, by Leo XIII.
- In French, Aix-la-Chapelle, the name by which the city is generally known; in Latin Aquae Grani, later Aquisgranum.
- Of all the names used, a special prominence accrues to those of Abel, Melchisedech, and Abraham.
- The code of laws enacted by the Crusaders for the government of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
- In canon law, the act by which one receives a thing with approbation or satisfaction.
- Reigned 867-872.
- The largest and outer-most covering of the chalice and paten in the Greek church, corresponding to the veil in the Latin rite.
- A convert to the Catholic faith. (1633-1714)
- English priest and martyr. (1577-1612)
- An Italian diocese comprising twenty-two communes in the province of Sassari, and four in that of Cagliari, Archdiocese of Sassari.
- This term designates The Twelve Apostles as the body of men commissioned by Christ to spread the kingdom of God over the whole world and to give it the stability of a well-ordered society.
- Byzantine historian, eldest daughter of Alexius Comnenus, Emperor of Constantinople (1081-1118).
- Titular see of Lycia.
- The maintainers of the Mosaic Law against the invasion of Greek customs.
- Jesuit lay-brother who entered the Society at the age of forty. (1532-1617)
- One charged with the care of church property.
- The Apostle of Prussia.
- English Jesuit lay-brother, cook and domestic servant, was tortured and martyred in 1606.
- Joined the Laudesi, a pious confraternity of the Blessed Virgin, and there met the six future companions of his life of sanctity.
- An Italian sculptor and architect, b. 1270; d. 1349.
- First committed to the care of the Castilian Knights of Calatrava.
- Cardinal and theologian. (1815-1892))
- A term applied to the Eutychians who withdrew from Peter Mongus, the Monophysite Patriarch of Alexandria, in 482.
- Signifies in ecclesiastical usage, a student preparing for the sacred ministry in a seminary.
- An altar having a double front constructed in such a manner that Mass may be celebrated on both sides of it at the same time.
- Rules as to what is fitting and customary in the matter of ecclesiastical correspondence.
- Manichæan heretics who lived in Albania, probably about the eighth century.
- A Russian city in the trans-Caucasian province of Kutais.
- Historical and bibliographical notes concerning the more important of these associations of learned men.
- Bishop of La Paz, appointed 22 October, 1901; b. at Bemedo, diocese of Vittoria, Spain, 5 December, 1845.
- Their peculiarity consists in the sediment of dark red colour they contain, from which they derive the name, blood-ampullæ, on the theory that the sediment is the remains of the blood of a martyr.
- Mexican statesman and historian. (1792-1853)
- Theologian, d. 1440.
- Three councils were held in the former capital of Galatia (now Angora) in Asia Minor, during the fourth century.
- A Christian apologist living at Athens in the second century.
- Founded between 1603 and 1609 by Cardinal Federigo Borromeo at Milan.
- An academic degree higher than that of Bachelor.
- Jesuit Orientalist and Scriptural commentator. (1660-1721)
- Prefecture Apostolic in Chile.
- Apostle and Bishop of Auvergne. (c. 314)
- Comprises three towns in the Province of Bari and one in the Province of Potenza, Archdiocese of Trani, Italy.
- A box in which the Eucharist was kept by the primitive Christians in their homes.
- Provides details on the geography, ethnology, political revolutions, as well as church information.
- A tribe of North American Indians belonging linguistically to the Athapascan stock whose original habitat is believed to have been Northwestern Canada.
- Bishop of Carthage at the close of the second and beginning of the third century.
- A titular see of Armenia, suffragan of Melitene.
- A term employed in scholastic philosophy to express the absolute perfection of God.
- Martyred in A.D. 628.
- Educator, essayist, litterateur, and philosopher, b. near Killenaule, County Tipperary, Ireland, 29 June, 1847.
- The popes very often delegated to others the power to give this blessing in answer to petitions from princes, at the close of missions, and on such occasions.
- The railing which guards the sanctuary and separates the latter from the body of the church. Also called the communion-rail.
- A South American confederation of fourteen provinces, or States, united by a federal Constitution framed on the same lines as the Constitution of the United States of America.
- Benedictine, died 1088.
- Roman Emperor, 270-275, born near Sirmium in Pannonia, 9 September, 214; died 275.
- English cardinal. (1803-1847)
- Scientist and educator. (1799-1875)
- Sixtieth Archbishop of Canterbury, second son of Robert, Earl of Arundel and Warren, b. 1353; d. 19 February, 1414.
- A native of Mexico in the eighteenth century.
- The School of Armagh seems to have been the oldest, and down to the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion continued to be one of the most celebrated, of the ancient schools of Ireland.
- A cloth, on which images of Our Lord, of the Blessed Virgin, or of saints, are represented, may be suspended above the altar, unless such images are painted on the wall.
- Used in the classical Latin of Republican Rome as a general term for any manifestation of popular feeling expressed by a shout.
- Theologian. (1549-1624)
- Fourth son of King David, and Adonias the Levite are discussed.
- The Wednesday after Quinquagesima Sunday, which is the first day of the Lenten fast.
- The undue craving for honor.
- A Hebrew word signifying: ruin, destruction (Job 31:12); place of destruction; the Abyss, realm of the dead (Job 26:6; Proverbs 15:11).
- A Spanish knight from Segovia, b. about the middle of the fifteenth century; d. at Leon, 1530.
- Martyred at Milan in 1065, for his attempt to reform the simoniacal and immoral clergy of that city.
- Definitor-general and Commissary of the Capuchins. (d. 1669)
- Comprises eighty towns in the province of Cuneo and two in the province of Alexandria, in Italy.
- A Benedictine abbey in Styria, Austro-Hungary.
- A term used by writers of ascetical and mystical books to signify the first stage of the union of the soul with God by conforming to His Will.
- The name of God in Arabic.
- French Benedictine. (1609-1685)
- In a broad sense, a christological theory according to which Christ, as man, is the adoptive Son of God.
- Diocese in Ireland, suffragan to the Archdiocese of Tuam.
- Accompanied Grijalva on his exploration of Yucatan and the Mexican coast in 1518, and was the chief officer of Cortez during the conquest of Mexico.
- A secret chamber or place of retirement in the ancient temples, and esteemed the most sacred spot; the innermost sanctuary or shrine.
- A solid piece of natural stone, consecrated by a bishop, large enough to hold the Sacred Host and chalice.
- Used by the Nestorians and also by Eastern Catholic bodies in Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia, and Malabar, who have separated from them.
- A tomb, or monument, over a grave, oblong in form, which is covered with a slab or table, having the appearance of an altar.
- A titular see of Paphlagonia in Asia Minor, on a peninsula jutting into the Black Sea.
- Priest and martyr. (1497-1540)
- Any material favour done to assist the needy, and prompted by charity.
- Ptolemais, a titular metropolis in Phoenicia Prima, or Maritima. The city of Acre, now Saint-Jean d'Acre, was called Ptolemais in 281 or 267 B.C., by Ptolemy II.
- Fourth-century writer.
- A circumstance which favoured the study of letters and philosophy was the accession to the throne about A.D. 750 of the Abassides, an enlightened line of Caliphs who encouraged learning, and patronized the representatives, chiefly Syrian and Persian, of f
- Dominican missionary and papal ambassador. (d. 1253)
- A process (or a faculty) by which the mind selects for consideration some one of the attributes of a thing to the exclusion of the rest.
- A scholarly English monk, pupil of Archbishop Theodore, and of Abbot Adrian of St. Peter's, Canterbury, contemporary of Saint Bede (673-735).
- Includes examples of Old and New Testament references.
- An early medieval writer and abbot of the Benedictine Order, born in France, early in the eighth century.
- Born about 770, of noble parentage; died 20 July, 833, or 834.
- A former city of the Roman Empire, situated at the head of the Adriatic.
- Counsellor of David, who joined the rebellion of Absalom.
- Spanish writer. (1280-1352)
- Jesuit. (1625-1715)
- Church historian. (1808-1878)
- The remission of sin, or of the punishment due to sin, granted by the Church.
- Details for three family members.
- The name given to certain discs of wax impressed with the figure of a lamb and blessed at stated seasons by the Pope.
- Briefly defined as the scientific exposition of Christian asceticism.
- An act that is neither good nor bad.
- Studied theology at Landshut, was ordained at Ratisbon, 1816, studied Oriental languages (1818-20), became professor in the University at Landshut in 1824, and was transferred with the university to Munich in 1826, but owing to a weak throat he had to acc
- Mathematician, b. at Florence and died there in 1639.
- Pietro Philarghi, born c. 1339, on the island of Crete (Candia), whence his appellation, Peter of Candia; elected 26 June, 1409; died at Bologna, 3 May, 1410.
- According to 1907 usage, a period beginning with the Sunday nearest to the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle and embracing four Sundays.
- Jewish statesman, apologist and exegete. (1437-1508)
- Jesuit missionary in Canada, born at Gisors in Normandy.(1673-1755)
- Archbishop of Paris. (1793-1848)
- Also known as St. Ewin, Abhan, or Evin.
- Has been claimed as a native of Scotland, but this is owing to a misunderstanding of the name "Scotia", which until late in the Middle Ages really meant Ireland.
- The science of the form and structure of living beings.
- Article covers Absalom, Son of David, Absalom, father of Mathathias, and Absalom, father of Jonathan.
- Benedictine abbey in England.
- An encyclical letter of Pope Leo XIII (issued 4 August, 1879); not to be confused with the apostolic letter of the same name written by Pope Pius IX.
- Italian jurist. (1492-1550)
- English canonist, born 1350.
- A term used in its widest sense to signify the tendency of man to conceive the activities of the external world as the counterpart of his own.
- Had its inception in the thirteenth century, when Sancho IV, conceived the idea of founding a Studium Generale in Alcalá de Henares.
- A bishop deputed to a diocesan who, capable of governing and administering his diocese, is unable to perform the pontifical functions; or whose diocese is so extensive that it requires the labors of more than one; or whose episcopal see has attached to it
- The family of liturgies originally used in the Patriarchate of Antioch begins with that of the Apostolic Constitutions; then follow that of St. James in Greek, the Syrian Liturgy of St. James, and the other Syrian Anaphorus.
- A city in the Transylvanian county of Szolnok-Doboka.
- The name given by the Arabs to the portion of Spain subject to their dominion.
- An Austrian musician, born at Salzburg, 11 February, 1790; died in Vienna, 31 August, 1862.
- Professor and poet. (310-394)
- authority of Holy Writ is twofold on account of its twofold authorship. The various books which make up the Bible are authentic because of their respective authors. They also possess a higher authenticity because they're the inspired word of God.
- Primarily and classically an adjective, very deep.
- English Canon. (1815-1872)
- Bishop of Alexandria, Confessor and Doctor of the Church.(296-373)
- Reigned 672-676.
- Benedictine abbot and writer. (d. 1202)
- A term applied to the voting in conclave for the election of a pope, by which a cardinal changes his vote and accedes to some other candidate.
- First Archbishop of San Francisco. (1814-1888)
- French theologian. (1678-1743)
- The first knowledge of Alaska was acquired in 1741 through the expedition under Vitus Bering, a Dane in the Russian service, who sailed from Okhoysk.
- A high court official under Josias and his two sons, who protected Jeremias from the fury of the populace.
- An Italian diocese in the Province of Naples, suffragan to Benevento.
- Nephew of King David.
- A hymn sometimes styled Rhythmus, or Oratio, S. Thomæ (sc. Aquinatis) written c. 1260.
- Devoted himself to philosophy, mathematics, and astronomy.
- Titular see of Phoenicia from 325 to 451.
- Classified according to their origin, instead of following the misleading division of the apocrypha of the Old and New Testaments.
- A former Cistercian Abbey in the valley of the Vils in Lower Bavaria.
- Vicariate Apostolic in Chile, dependent on the Sacred Congregation of Ecclesiastical Affairs.
- An Act of Parliament for putting a man to death or for otherwise punishing him without trial in the usual form.
- A diocese of Tuscany, in Italy, which is directly dependent on the Holy See. It
- In the sixth month after the conception of St. John the Baptist by Elizabeth, the angel Gabriel was sent from God to the Virgin Mary.
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