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• Ad Apostolicae Dignitatis Apicem: Apostolic letter issued against Emperor Frederick II by Pope ...
• Ad Limina Apostolorum: An ecclesiastical term meaning a pilgrimage to the sepulchres ...
• Ad Limina Visit: (Sc. Apostolorum ) The visit ad limina means, ...
• Ad Sanctam Beati Petri Sedem: This letter was issued by Alexander VII , and is dated at ...
• Ad Universalis Ecclesiae: A papal constitution dealing with the conditions for ...
• Adalard, Saint: Born c. 751; d. 2 January, 827. Bernard, son of Charles Martel ...
• Adalbert: Archbishop of Hamburg - Bremen ; born about 1000; died 1072 ...
• Adalbert I: (Or ALBERT). Archbishop of Mainz (Mayence) 1111 to 1137. ...
• Adalbert, Saint: Apostle of the Slavs, probably a native of Lorraine, d. 981. ...
• Adalbert, Saint: Born 939 of a noble Bohemian family ; died 997. He assumed the ...
• Adam: The first man and the father of the human race. ETYMOLOGY ...
• Adam in Early Christian Liturgy and Literature: Adam's importance to the Fathers and to the authors of the ...
• Adam of Bremen: A German historian and geographer of the eleventh century. The ...
• Adam of Fulda: Born about 1450, died after 1537, one of the most learned ...
• Adam of Murimuth: An English chronicler of about the middle of the fourteenth ...
• Adam of Perseigne: A French Cistercian, Abbot of the monastery of Perseigne in ...
• Adam of St. Victor: A prominent and prolific writer of Latin Hymns, born in the ...
• Adam of Usk: An English priest, canonist, and chronicler, born at Usk, in ...
• Adam Scotus: (Or THE PREMONSTRATENSIAN). A theologian and Church ...
• Adam, John: A distinguished preacher and a strenuous opponent of Calvinists ...
• Adam, Nicholas: Linguist and writer, b. in Paris, 1716; d. 1792. He achieved ...
• Adam, The Books of: The Book of Adam, or "Contradiction of Adam and Eve", is a ...
• Adami da Bolsena, Andrea: An Italian musician b. at Bolsena, 1663; d. in Rome, 1742. ...
• Adamites: An obscure sect, dating perhaps from the second century, which ...
• Adamnan, Saint: (Or Eunan). Abbot of Iona, born at Drumhome, County ...
• Adams, James: Professor of humanities at St. Omers , born in England in ...
• Adams, Ven. John: Priest, martyred at Tyburn, 8 October, 1586. He had been a ...
• Adana: A diocese of Armenian rite in Asia Minor (Asiatic Turkey). ...
• Adar: (1) A frontier town in the South of Chanaan ( Numbers 34:4 ; ...
• Adauctus and Felix, Saints: Martyrs at Rome, 303, under Diocletian and Maximian. The ...
• Adda, Ferdinando d': Cardinal and Papal Legate, b. at Milan, 1649; d. at Rome, ...
• Addai, Doctrine of: ( Latin Doctrina Addoei ). A Syriac document which ...
• Addas: One of the three original disciples of Manes, who according to ...
• Addeus and Maris, Liturgy of: This is an Oriental liturgy, sometimes assigned to the Syrian ...
• Addresses, Ecclesiastical: It is from Italy that we derive rules as to what is fitting ...
• Adelaide, Archdiocese of: Centred in Adelaide, capital of South Australia. It comprises ...
• Adelaide, Saint: Abbess, born in the tenth century; died at Cologne, 5 ...
• Adelaide, Saint: (ADELHEID). Born 931; died 16 December, 999, one of the ...
• Adelard of Bath: A twelfth-century Scholastic philosopher, b. about 1100. ...
• Adelham, John Placid: (Or ADLAND). A Protestant minister, born in Wiltshire, who ...
• Adelmann: Bishop of Brescia in the eleventh century. Of unknown ...
• Adelophagi: ( Adelos = secretly, and phalo = I eat). A sect ...
• Aden: (ADANE). It comprises all Arabia, and is properly known as ...
• Adeodatus: Son of St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo , b. 372; d. 388. St. ...
• Adeodatus (II), Pope Saint: (Reigned 672-676). A monk of the Roman cloister of St. ...
• Adeodatus I, Pope Saint: (Adeodatus I). Date of birth unknown; consecrated pope, 19 ...
• Adeste Fidelis: A hymn used at Benediction at Christmastide in France and ...
• Adjuration: (Latin adjurare , to swear; to affirm by oath ). An ...
• Administrator: The term Administrator in its general sense signifies a ...
• Administrator (of Ecclesiastical Property): One charged with the care of church property . Supreme ...
• Admonitions, Canonical: A preliminary means used by the Church towards a suspected ...
• Admont: A Benedictine abbey in Styria, Austro-Hungary, on the river ...
• Ado of Vienne, Saint: Born about 800, in the diocese of Sens ; d. 16 December, ...
• Adonai: Adonai (Hebrew meaning "lord, ruler") is a name bestowed upon ...
• Adonias: (Hebrew: Adoniyah, Adoniyahuh , Yahweh is Lord; Septuagint ...
• Adoption: IN THE OLD TESTAMENT Adoption, as defined in canon law, is ...
• Adoption, Canonical: In a legal sense, adoption is an act by which a person, with ...
• Adoption, Supernatural: ( Latin adoptare , to choose.) Adoption is the gratuitous ...
• Adoptionism: Adoptionism, in a broad sense, a christological theory according ...
• Adoration: In the strict sense, an act of religion offered to God in ...
• Adoration, Perpetual: A term broadly used to designate the practically uninterrupted ...

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• Adorno, Francis: A celebrated Italian preacher, b. 1531; d. at Genoa, 13 ...
• Adoro Te Devote: ("I adore Thee devoutly"). A hymn sometimes styled ...
• Adria: An Italian bishopric, suffragan to Venice, which comprises 55 ...
• Adrian I, Pope: From about 1 February, 772, till 25 December, 795; date of ...
• Adrian II, Pope: (Reigned 867-872.) After the death of St. Nicholas I , the ...
• Adrian III, Pope Saint: Pope St. Adrian III, of Roman extraction, was elected in the ...
• Adrian IV, Pope: Born 1100 (?); died 1 September, 1159. Very little is known ...
• Adrian of Canterbury, Saint: An African by birth, died 710. He became Abbot of Nerida, ...
• Adrian of Castello: Also called D E C ORNETO from his birthplace in Tuscany ; ...
• Adrian V, Pope: (OTTOBUONO FIESCHI). A Genoese, and nephew of Innocent IV. ...
• Adrian VI, Pope: The last pontefice barbaro ( Guicciardini, XIV, v), and the ...
• Adrianople: A city of Turkey in Europe. According to legend, Orestes, son ...
• Adrichem, Christian Kruik van: (Christianus Crucius Adrichomius). Catholic priest and ...
• Adso: Abbot of the Cluniac monastery of Moutier-en-Der, d. 992, on ...
• Aduarte, Diego Francisco: Missionary and historian, b. 1566, at Saragossa, in Spain ; ...
• Adullam: (Hebrew Adhullam , Vulgate Odollam , but Adullam in Joshua ...
• Adulteration of Food: ( Latin adulterare , to pollute, to adulterate). This act ...
• Adultery: It is the purpose of this article to consider adultery with ...
• Advent: (Latin ad-venio , to come to). According to present [1907] ...
• Adventists: A group of six American Protestant sects which hold in common ...
• Advertisements, Book of: A series of enactments concerning ecclesiastical matters, ...
• Advocates of Roman Congregations: Advocates of Roman Congregations are persons, ecclesiastical ...
• Advocates of St. Peter: A body of jurists constituting a society whose statutes were ...
• Advocatus Diaboli: ("Advocate of the Devil" or "Devil's Advocate"). A popular ...
• Advocatus Ecclesiæ: A name applied, in the Middle Ages , to certain lay ...
• Advowson: ( Latin, advocatio ; Old French, avoëson ). In ...
• Adytum: (From adyton ; sc. a privative + dyo =enter). A ...

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