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De L'Orme, Philibert: Celebrated architect of the French Renaissance, born at Lyons, ...
De La Croix, Charles: Missionary, b. at Hoorbeke-St-Corneille, Belgium, 28 Oct., ...
De Lisle, Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps: Born 17 March, 1809; died 5 March, 1878. He was the son of ...
De Paul University: DePaul University, Chicago, is the outgrowth of St. Vincent's ...
De Profundis: ("Out of the depths"). First words of Psalm 129. The author of ...
De Rossi, Giovanni Battista: A distinguished Christian archaeologist , best known for his ...
De Smet, Pierre-Jean: Missionary among the North American Indians , b. at Termonde ...
De Soto, Hernando: Explorer and conqueror, born at Villanueva de la Serena, ...
De Vere, Aubrey Thomas Hunt: Poet, critic, and essayist, b. at Curragh Chase, County ...
Deaconesses: We cannot be sure that any formal recognition of deaconesses as ...
Deacons: The name deacon ( diakonos ) means only minister or ...
Dead Sea: The name given to the lake that lies on the south-eastern border ...
Dead, Prayers for the: This subject will be treated under the following three heads: ...
Deaf, Education of the: Education essentially includes the process of encouraging, ...
Dean: (Gk. déka , ten; Latin decanus ). One of the ...
Dean, William, Venerable: Born in Yorkshire, England, date uncertain, martyred 28 ...
Dease, Thomas: Born in Ireland, 1568; died at Galway, 1651. He sprang from an ...
Death Penalty: The infliction by due legal process of the penalty of death as a ...
Death, Dance of: (French, Dance Macabre , German Todtentanz ) The ...
Death, Preparation for: The basic preparation for death When should a priest be called? ...
Debbora: Prophetess and judge: she was the wife of Lapidoth and was ...
Debt: ( debitum ) That which is owed or due to another; in ...
Decalogue: (Greek deka , ten and logos , word). The term employed ...
Decapolis: (From Greek Deka , ten, and polis , city) Decapolis is ...
Dechamps, Adolphe: Belgian statesman and publicist, brother of Cardinal ...
Dechamps, Victor Augustin Isidore: Cardinal, Archbishop of Mechlin, and Primate of Belgium ; ...
Decius: (C AIUS M ESSIUS Q UINTUS T RAJANUS D ECIUS ). ...
Decker, Hans: A German sculptor of the middle of the fifteenth century. ...
Declaration, The Royal: This is the name most commonly given to the solemn repudiation ...
Decorations, Pontifical: Pontifical decorations are the titles of nobility, orders of ...
Decree: ( Latin decretum , from decerno , I judge). In a general ...
Decretals, Papal: I. DEFINITION AND EARLY HISTORY (1) In the wide sense of the ...
Dedication: A term which, though sometimes used of persons who are ...
Dedication, Feast of the: Also called the Feast of the Machabees and Feast of Lights ...
Deduction: ( Latin de ducere , to lead, draw out, derive from; ...
Deer, Abbey of: A once famous Scotch monastery. According to the Celtic legend ...
Defender of the Matrimonial Tie: ( Defensor matrimonii ) The Defender of the Matrimonial ...
Definitions, Theological: The Vatican Council (Sess. iv, cap. iv) solemnly taught the ...
Definitor (in Canon Law): An official in secular deaneries and in certain religious ...
Definitors (in Religious Orders): Generally speaking, the governing council of an order. Bergier ...
Deger, Ernst: Historical painter, born in Bockenem, Hanover, 15 April, ...
Degradation: ( Latin degradatio ). A canonical penalty by which an ...
Deharbe, Joseph: Theologian, catechist, b. at Straburg, Alsace, 11 April, 1800; ...
Dei gratia; Dei et Apostolicæ Sedis gratia: ( By the grace of God; By the grace of God and the Apostolic ...
Deicolus, Saint: (DICHUIL) Elder brother of St. Gall, b. in Leinster, ...
Deism: ( Latin Deus , God ). The term used to denote ...

Deity: ( French déité ; Late Latin deitas ; Latin ...
Delacroix, Ferdinand-Victor-Eugène: French painter, b. at Charenton-St-Maurice, near Paris, 26 ...
Delaroche, Hippolyte: (Known also as P AUL ) Painter, born at Paris, 17 July, ...
Delatores: ( Latin for DENOUNCERS) A term used by the Synod of Elvira ...
Delaware: Delaware, one of the original thirteen of the United States of ...
Delaware Indians: An important tribal confederacy of Algonquian stock originally ...
Delcus: A titular see of Thrace, suffragan of Philippopolis. The ...
Delegation: ( Latin delegare ) A delegation is the commission to ...
Delfau, François: Theologian, born 1637 at Montel in Auvergne, France ; died 13 ...
Delfino, Pietro: A theologian, born at Venice in 1444; died 16 Jan., 1525. He ...
Delilah: (Or Dalila ). Samson, sometime after his exploit at Gaza ...
Delille, Jacques: French abbé and litterateur , born at Aigueperse, 22 ...
Delisle, Guillaume: Reformer of cartography, born 28 February, 1675, in Paris ; ...
Delphine, Blessed: A member of the Third Order of St. Francis, born in Provence, ...
Delrio, Martin Anton: Scholar, statesman, Jesuit theologian, born at Antwerp, 17 ...
Delta of the Nile, Prefecture Apostolic of the: The Prefecture Apostolic of the Delta of the Nile is situated in ...
Deluge: Deluge is the name of a catastrophe fully described in Genesis ...
Demers, Modeste: An apostle of the Pacific Coast of North America, and the ...
Demetrius: The name of two Syrian kings mentioned in the Old Testament ...
Demetrius, Saint: Bishop of Alexandria from 188 to 231. Julius Africanus, who ...
Demiurge: The word means literally a public worker, demioergós, ...
Democracy, Christian: In Christian Democracy , the name and the reality have two ...
Demon: (Greek daimon and daimonion , Latin daemonium ). In ...
Demoniacs: ( See also DEMONOLOGY, EXORCISM, EXORCIST, POSSESSION.) ...
Demonology: As the name sufficiently indicates, demonology is the science ...
Dempster, Thomas: Savant, professor, author; b., as he himself states at Cliftbog, ...
Denaut, Pierre: Tenth Bishop of Quebec, b. at Montreal, 20 July, 1743; d. at ...
Denifle, Heinrich Seuse: ( Baptized JOSEPH.) Paleographer and historian, born at Imst ...
Denis, Johann Nepomuk Cosmas Michael: Bibliographer and poet, b. at Schärding, Bavaria, 27 ...
Denis, Joseph: ( Baptized JACQUES). Born 6 November, 1657, at Three ...
Denis, Saint: Bishop of Paris, and martyr. Born in Italy, nothing is ...
Denman, William: Publisher, b. in Edinburgh, Scotland, 17 March, 1784; d. in ...
Denmark: ( Latin Dania ). This kingdom had formerly a much larger ...
Denonville, Seigneur and Marquis de: (JACQUES-RENE DE BRISAY, SEIGNEUR AND MARQUIS DE DENONVILLE) ...
Dens, Peter: Theologian, b. at Boom, near Antwerp, Belgium, 12 September, ...
Denunciation: Denunciation ( Latin denunciare) is making known the crime of ...
Denver: (D ENVERIENSIS ). A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Santa ...
Denys the Carthusian: (D ENYS VAN L EEUWEN, also L EUW or L IEUWE ). Born ...
Denza, Francesco: Italian meteorologist and astronomer, b. at Naples, 7 June, ...
Denzinger, Heinrich Joseph Dominicus: One of the leading theologians of the modern Catholic German ...
Deo Gratias: ("Thanks be to God "). An old liturgical formula of the ...
Deposition: A deposition is an ecclesiastical vindictive penalty by which ...
Deprés, Josquin: Diminutive of "Joseph"; latinized Josquinus Pratensis . ...
Derbe: A titular see of Lycaonia, Asia Minor. This city was the ...
Dereser, Anton: (Known also as THADDAEUS A S. ADAMO). Born at Fahr in ...

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Derogation: (Latin derogatio ). The partial revocation of a law, ...
Derry: DIOCESE OF DERRY (DERRIENSIS). Includes nearly all the ...
Derry, School of: This was the first foundation of St. Columba, the great Apostle ...
Desains, Paul-Quentin: Physicist, b. at St-Quentin, France, 12 July, 1817; d. at Paris, ...
Desault, Pierre-Joseph: Surgeon and anatomist, b. at Magny-Vernois a small town of ...
Descartes, René: (Renatus Cartesius), philosopher and scientist, born at La ...
Deschamps, Eustache: Also called M OREL , on account of his dark complexion; b. at ...
Deschamps, Nicolas: Polemical writer, born at Villefranche (Rhône), France, ...
Desclée, Henri and Jules: Henri (1830-); Jules (1828-1911). Natives of Belgium, ...
Desecration: Desecration is the loss of that peculiar quality of ...
Desert: The Hebrew words translated in the Douay Version of the Bible ...
Desertion: The culpable abandonment of a state, of a stable situation, ...
Deshon, George: Priest of the Congregation (or Institute) of St. Paul the ...
Desiderius: (DAUFERIUS or DAUFAR). Born in 1026 or 1027 of a non-regnant ...
Desiderius of Cahors, Saint: Bishop, b. at Obrege (perhaps Antobroges, name of a Gaulish ...
Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Jean: A French dramatist and novelist, born in Paris, 1595, died ...
Desolation, The Abomination of: The importance of this Scriptural expression is chiefly ...
Despair: (Latin desperare , to be hopeless.) Despair, ethically ...
Despretz, César-Mansuète: Chemist and physicist, b. at Lessines, Belgium, 11 May, 1798; ...
Desservants: The name of a class of French parish priests. Under the old ...
Desurmont, Achille: Ascetical writer, b. at Tourcoing, France, 23 Dec., 1828; d. 23 ...
Determinism: Determinism is a name employed by writers, especially since J. ...
Detré, William: Missionary, b. in France in 1668, d. in South America, at an ...
Detraction: (From Latin detrahere , to take away). Detraction is the ...
Detroit: (Detroitensis) Diocese established 8 March, 1838, comprises ...
Deus in Adjutorium Meum Intende: "Deus in adjutorium meum intende," with the response: "Domine ad ...
Deusdedit, Cardinal: Born at Todi, Italy ; died between 1097 and 1100. He was a ...
Deusdedit, Pope Saint: (Adeodatus I). Date of birth unknown; consecrated pope, 19 ...
Deusdedit, Saint: A native of Wessex, England, whose Saxon name was Frithona, ...
Deuteronomy: This term occurs in Deuteronomy 17:18 and Joshua 8:32 , and is ...
Deutinger, Martin: Philosopher and religious writer, b. in Langenpreising, ...
Devas, Charles Stanton: Political economist, b. at Woodside, Old Windsor, England, of ...
Devereux, John C.: Born at his father's farm, The Leap, near Enniscorthy, Co. ...
Devereux, Nicholas: Born near Enniscorthy, Ireland, 7 June, 1791; died at Utica, ...
Devil: (Greek diabolos ; Latin diabolus ). The name commonly ...
Devil Worship: The meaning of this compound term is sufficiently obvious, for ...
Devil's Advocate: ("Advocate of the Devil" or "Devil's Advocate"). A popular ...
Devolution: ( Latin devolutio from devolvere ) Devolution is the ...
Devoti, Giovani: Canonist, born at Rome, 11 July, 1744; died there 18 Sept., ...
Devotions, Popular: Devotion, in the language of ascetical writers, denotes a ...
Deymann, Clementine: Born at Klein-Stavern, Oldenburg, Germany, 24 June, 1844; died ...
Deza, Diego: Theologian, archbishop, patron of Christopher Columbus, b. at ...

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