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• Agabus: Mentioned in Acts 11:28 , and 21:10 , as a prophet of the ...
• Agape: The celebration of funeral feasts in honour of the dead ...
• Agapetæ: ( agapetai , beloved). In the first century of the ...
• Agapetus: A deacon of the church of Sancta Sophia at Constantinople ...
• Agapetus I, Pope Saint: (Also AGAPITUS.) Reigned 535-536. Date of birth uncertain; ...
• Agapetus II, Pope: A Roman by birth, elected to the papacy 10 May, 946; he ...
• Agar, William Seth: An English Canon, born at York, 25 December, 1815; died 23 ...
• Agatha, Saint: One of the most highly venerated virgin martyrs of Christian ...
• Agathangelus: A supposed secretary of Tiridates II, King of Armenia, under ...
• Agathias: A Byzantine historian and man of letters, born at Myrina in ...
• Agatho, Pope Saint: Born towards the end of the sixth century in Sicily ; died in ...
• Agaunum: (Today ST. MAURICEEN-VALAIS). Agaunum, in the diocese of ...
• Agazzari, Agostini: A musical composer, born 2 December 1578, of a noble family of ...
• Agde, Council of: Held in 506 at Agatha or Agde in Languedoc, under the ...
• Age of Reason: The name given to that period of human life at which persons ...
• Age, Canonical: The word age , taken in its widest meaning, may be described ...
• Agen, Diocese of: (AGINNUM.) Comprises the Department of Lot and Garonne. It ...
• Agents of Roman Congregations: Persons whose business it is to look after the affairs of their ...
• Aggeus: Name and personal life Aggeus, the tenth among the minor ...
• Aggressor, Unjust: According to the accepted teaching of theologians, it is ...
• Agiles, Raymond d': ( Or AGUILERS.) A chronicler and canon of Puy-en-Velay, ...
• Agilulfus, Saint: Abbot of Stavelot, Bishop of Cologne and Martyr, 750. We ...
• Agios O Theos: (O Holy God). The opening words in Greek of an invocation, ...
• Agnelli, Fra. Guglielmo: Sculptor and architect, b. at Pisa, probably in 1238; d. ...
• Agnelli, Giuseppe: Chiefly known for his catechetical and devotional works, b. at ...
• Agnellus of Pisa, Blessed: Friar Minor and founder of the English Franciscan Province, ...
• Agnellus, Andreas, of Ravenna: Historian of that church, b. 805; the date of his death is ...
• Agnes of Assisi, Saint: Younger sister of St. Clare and Abbess of the Poor Ladies, ...
• Agnes of Bohemia, Blessed: (Also called Agnes of Prague). Born at Prague in the year 1200; ...
• Agnes of Montepulciano, Saint: Born in the neighbourhood of Montepulciano in Tuscany about ...
• Agnes of Prague, Blessed: (Also called Agnes of Prague). Born at Prague in the year 1200; ...
• Agnes of Rome, Saint and Martyr: Of all the virgin martyrs of Rome none was held in such high ...
• Agnesi, Maria Gaetana: Born at Milan, 16 May, 1718; died at Milan, 9 January, 1799, ...
• Agnetz: (Latin, agnus , lamb), the Slavonic word for the square ...
• Agnoetae: ( agnoetai ) from agnoeo , to be ignorant of) The ...
• Agnosticism: A philosophical theory of the limitations of knowledge, ...
• Agnus Dei: The name Agnus Dei has been given to certain discs of wax ...
• Agnus Dei (in Liturgy): A name given to the formula recited thrice by the priest at ...
• Agonistici: ( Agon ="struggle"). One of the names given by the ...
• Agony of Christ: (From agonia , a struggle; particularly, in profane ...
• Agony, Archconfraternity of Holy: An association for giving special honour to the mental ...
• Agostini, Paolo: Born at Vallerano in 1593; died 1629, famous composer and pupil ...
• Agostino Novello, Blessed: (Matteo Di Termini), born in the first half of the thirteenth ...
• Agoult, Charles Consstance César Joseph Matthieu d': A French prelate, born at Grenoble, 1747; died at Paris, ...
• Agra: Archdiocese ; it is situated in British India, and lies ...
• Agram: (Also ZAGRAB; Latin Zagrabia ). Archiepiscopal see of the ...
• Agrapha: A name first used, in 1776, by J.G. Körner, for the Sayings ...
• Agrarianism: The Latin word agrarius was applied historically to laws or ...
• Agreda, Maria de: (Or, according to her conventual title, Maria of Jesus) A ...
• Agria: (ERLAU, EGER, JAGER). An archiepiscopal see of Hungary, ...
• Agricius, Saint: Bishop of Trier (Trèves), in the fourth century (332 ...
• Agricola, Alexander: A celebrated composer of the fifteenth century, and pupil of ...
• Agricola, George: (BAUER, latinized into AGRICOLA). Physician, mineralogist, ...
• Agricola, Rudolph: A distinguished humanist of the earlier period, and a ...
• Agrippa of Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius: Born 14 September, 1486, at Cologne ; died at Grenoble or ...
• Agrippinus: Bishop of Carthage at the close of the second and beginning ...
• Aguas Calientes: (Lat. AQUAE CALIDAE). A Mexican see dependent on Guadalajara; ...
• Aguirre, Joseph Saenz de: Cardinal, and learned Spanish Benedictine ; born at Logro o, ...

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