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• Acacia: (In Hebrew shíttah , plural shíttîm ; ...
• Acacians, The: Known also as the HOMOEANS, an Arian sect which first emerged ...
• Acacius: Bishop of Beroea. Born in Syria c. 322; died c. 432. While ...
• Acacius: Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, disciple and biographer of ...
• Acacius: Patriarch of Constantinople; Schismatic ; d. 489. When ...
• Acacius, Saint: Bishop of Melitene in the third century. The Greeks ...
• Academies, Roman: The Italian Renaissance at its apogee [from the close of the ...
• Academy, The French: The French Academy was founded by Cardinal de Richelieu in ...
• Acadia: The precise location and extent of Acadia was a subject of ...
• Acanthus: A titular see of Macedonia, on the Strymonic Gulf, now known ...
• Acanthus: A plant, indigenous to middle Europe, the leaf of which has ...
• Acathistus: (Greek akathistos ; a privative, kathizo "sit"; i.e. ...
• Acca, Saint: Bishop of Hexham, and patron of learning (c. 660-742). Acca ...
• Accaron: ( Ekron ). The most northern of the five principal ...
• Accentus Ecclesiasticus: The counterpart of concentus . In the ancient Church music ...
• Acceptance: Acceptance, in canon law, the act by which one receives a thing ...
• Acceptants: Those Jansenists who accepted without any reserve or mental ...
• Accession: (From Latin accedere , to go to; hence, to be added to). ...
• Accessus: A term applied to the voting in conclave for the election of a ...
• Acciajuoli: Name of three cardinals belonging to an illustrious Florentine ...
• Accident: [Latin accidere , to happen what happens to be in a subject; ...
• Acclamation: ( Latin ad , to, clamare , to cry out). IN CIVIC LIFE The ...
• Acclamation (in Papal Elections): One of the forms of papal election . The method of electing ...
• Accommodation, Biblical: We shall consider (1) what is meant by biblical accommodation; ...
• Accomplice: A term generally employed to designate a partner in some form of ...
• Accursius, Francesco: ( Italian Accorso ). (1)FRANCESCO ACCURSIUS (1182-1260) A ...
• Acephali: A term applied to the Eutychians who withdrew from Peter ...
• Acerenza: (ACHERONTIA.) This archdiocese, in the provinces of Lecce ...
• Achéry, Lucas d': French Benedictine (Maurist), born 1609 at Saint Quentin in ...
• Achab: ( 'A'h'abh, Achaab in Jeremiah 29:22 , 'Ehabh, Achiab ) ...
• Achaia: (Ægialeia). The name, before the Roman conquest in 146 ...
• Achaicus: A Corinthian Christian, who, together with Fortunatus and ...
• Achaz: (AHAZ). King of Juda, placed variously, 741-726 B.C., ...
• Achiacharus: Achiacharus is mentioned only once in the Vulgate version of ...
• Achilleus and Nereus, Domitilla and Pancratius, Saints: The commemoration of these four Roman saints is made by the ...
• Achimaas: (1) Father of Achinoam, wife of Saul ( 1 Samuel 14:50 ). (2) ...
• Achimelech: (1) The priest of Nobe who extended hospitality to David ...
• Achitopel: Achitopel was an able and honoured counsellor of David, who ...
• Achonry: (Gaelic, Achadh-Chonnaire , Connary's Field). In Ireland, ...
• Achor Valley: The scene of the death of the "troubler" Achan, with whom its ...
• Achrida: A titular see in Upper Albania, the famous metropolis and ...
• Achterfeldt, Johann Heinrich: Theologian, b. at Wesel, 17 June, 1788; d. at Bonn, 11 May, ...
• Achtermann, Theodore William: A German sculptor, was born in 1799, at Munster in ...
• Aci-Reale, The Diocese of: (JACA REGALIS). Located in the island of Sicily ; includes ...
• Acidalius, Valens: ( German, Havekenthal ). Philologist, Latin poet, and ...
• Ackermann, Leopold: A Catholic professor of exegesis, b. in Vienna, 17 November, ...
• Acmonia: A titular see of Phrygia Pacatiana, in Asia Minor, now known ...
• Acoemetae: (Greek akoimetai , from privative a and koiman , to ...
• Acolouthia: (From the Greek akoloutheo , to follow.) In ...
• Acolyte: (Greek akolouthos ; Latin sequens, comes , a follower, an ...
• Acosta, Joaquín: A native of Colombia in South America, who served in the ...
• Acosta, José de: The son of well-to-do and respected parents, born at Medina del ...
• Acquapendente: A diocese in Italy under the immediate jurisdiction of the ...
• Acquaviva: Name of several Italian cardinals. FRANCESCO, b. 1665 at ...
• Acquaviva: Name of several Italian cardinals. FRANCESCO, b. 1665 at ...

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• Acquaviva, Claudius: Fifth General of the Society of Jesus , born October, 1543; ...
• Acqui: A diocese suffragan of Turin, Italy, which contains ...
• Acre: (SAINT-JEAN-D'ACRE). In Hebrew Accho , in the Books of ...
• Acre: (SAINT-JEAN D'ACRE) Ptolemais, a titular metropolis in ...
• Acrostic: ( Akros stichos , "at the end of a verse".) A poem the ...
• Act of Settlement (Irish): In 1662 an act was passed by the Irish Parliament, the ...
• Acta Pilati: (Or the Gospel of Nicodemus.) This work does not assume to ...
• Acta Sanctæ Sedis: A Roman monthly publication containing the principal public ...
• Acta Sanctorum Hiberniæ: The abbreviated title of a celebrated work on the Irish saints ...
• Acta Triadis Thaumaturgæ: (THE ACTS OF A WONDER-WORKING TRIAD) The lives of St. ...
• Acton, Charles Januarius: An English cardinal, born at Naples, 6 March, 1803; died at ...
• Acton, John: An English canonist, after 1329 canon of Lincoln; born 1350. ...
• Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Baron Acton: Baron Acton, Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, ...
• Acton, John Francis Edward: Sixth Baronet of the name, son of a Shropshire physician, born ...
• Acts of Roman Congregations: A term used to designate the documents (called also decrees) ...
• Acts of the Apostles: In the accepted order of the books of the New Testament the ...
• Acts of the Martyrs: In a strict sense the Acts of the Martyrs are the official ...
• Acts, Canonical: According to the old Roman jurisprudence, acts are the ...
• Acts, Human: Acts are termed human when they are proper to man as man; ...
• Acts, Indifferent: A human act may be considered in the abstract ( in specie ) ...
• Actual Grace: Grace ( gratia, Charis ), in general, is a supernatural gift ...
• Actus et Potentia: A technical expression in scholastic phraseology. I. The ...
• Actus primus: A technical expression used in scholastic philosophy. Actus ...
• Actus Purus: A term employed in scholastic philosophy to express the ...
• Acuas: One of the first to spread Manicheism in the Christian ...

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