French Jesuit, b. at Neuville-sur-l' Escaut (Nord), 28 June 1810; d. at Lille, 7 July, 1891. He ...
A celebrated French bishop and author, b. in the Château de Fénelon in ...
Novelist, b. at Rennes, 27 September, 1817; d. in Paris, 8 March 1887. He belonged to an old ...
German entomologist; b. at Aachen, 20 Jan., 1810; d. in the same city, 12 Aug., 1884. His father ...
(Born 1800; died 1876.) Joseph Führich was as Catholic in his art as in his life. He was ...
( Hungarian PÉCS, QUINQUE ECCLESIENSIS)
Located in Hungary, in the ecclesiastical ...
A statesman and educator, b. 7 August, 1729, at Herdringen in Westphalia ; d. 16 September, 1810, ...
The face or front of any building. In ecclesiastical architecture the term is generally used to ...
An Italian mathematician and priest, born at Alessandria, 7 March, 1825; died at Turin, 26 ...
German writer, born about 1441 at Zurich, of a famous family commonly known as Schmid; died in ...
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Oratorian and devotional writer, b. 28 June, 1814, at Calverley, Yorkshire, England ; d. in ...
Theologian, b. at Leutkirch, in Swabia, 1478; d. in Vienna, 21 May, 1541.
He studied ...
Johann Faber of Heilbronn, controversialist and preacher; b. 1504, at Heilbronn in Wittenberg ; ...
Theologian, born at Fribourg, Switzerland, c. 1470; died about 1531. He entered the Dominican ...
Writer and preacher, born at Altomünster, Germany, 24 February, 1586; died at Tyrnau, 26 ...
Born 13 April, 1506, at Villaret, Savoy ; died 1 Aug., 1546, in Rome. As a child he tended his ...
(Or Fabri.)
Theologian, philosopher and noted commentator of Duns Scotus ; born in 1564, at ...
(FABIANUS)
Pope (236-250), the extraordinary circumstances of whose election is related by ...
A Roman matron of rank, died 27 December, 399 or 400. She was one of the company of noble Roman ...
Second Superior General of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, born 14 November, 1824, at Cuges, ...
(Lefèvre.)
Jesuit, theologian, b. about 1607 in the Department of Ain, France ; d. at ...
(Or Fabri.)
Theologian, philosopher and noted commentator of Duns Scotus ; born in 1564, at ...
Diocese of Fabriano and Matelica (Fabrianensis et Mathelicensis).
Fabriano, a city in the ...
A Latin term, meaning, etymologically, the construction of a church, but in a broader sense the ...
(Surnamed ab Aquapendente ).
Distinguished Italian anatomist and surgeon, b. in the little ...
English chronicler, died 28 February, 1513. He was a London clothier, a member of the Drapers' ...
Lexicographer and philologist, b. at Torreglia, near Padua, Italy, 4 Jan., 1682; d. at Padua, 26 ...
(1) Definition
By a dogmatic fact , in wider sense, is meant any fact connected with a dogma ...
I. MEANING
Whatever doctrine one may hold concerning the nature of the human soul and its ...
( Latin Facultates )
In law, a faculty is the authority, privilege, or permission, to ...
A sixth-century Christian author, Bishop of Hermiane in Africa, about whose career very little ...
DIOCESE OF FAENZA (FAVENTINA)
Diocese in the province of Ravenna (Central Italy ), suffragan ...
Canonist, b. in Italy, place and date of birth uncertain; d. in 1678. Some writers place his ...
Mathematician, born at Sinigaglia, Italy, 26 September, 1682; died there 18 May, 1766. He made ...
Historian, born at Tarascon, France, 3 January, 1800; died at Paris, 25 October, 1870. He studied ...
I. THE MEANING OF THE WORD
( Pistis , fides). In the Old Testament , the Hebrew means ...
The names of two groups of Roman martyrs around whom a considerable amount of legendary lore has ...
The word rule ( Latin regula , Gr. kanon ) means a standard by which something can be ...
( Latin fideles , from fides , faith.)
Those who have bound themselves to a religious ...
Painter, b. at Valencia of an ancient noble family in 1641; d. 14 May, 1711. He was a pupil of ...
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(Latin faldistorium ; also facistorium, faudestolus, faudestola ).
A movable folding ...
Born 6 Oct., 1707; died 30 Jan., 1784. He was the son of Thomas Falkner, a Manchester ...
DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER (RIVERORMENSIS), U.S.A.
A suffragan see of the Province of Boston ; ...
Anatomist, "one of the most important of the many-sided physicians of the sixteenth century" ...
Frédéric Alfred Pierre, Vicomte de Falloux du Coudray
Born at Angers, 7 March, ...
(The Decretals of the Pseudo-Isidore)
False Decretals is a name given to certain apocryphal ...
( Latin Falsitas .)
A perversion of truth originating in the deceitfulness of one party, and ...
A titular see in the Island of Cyprus. The name appears to be derived from the Greek ...
Strictly speaking, seculars subject to a master's authority and maintained at his expense. In this ...
A term derived from the Latin, famulus , servant, and familia , household servants, or the ...
(FANENSIS.)
Fano, the ancient Fanum Fortunæ, a city of the Marches in the province of ...
A shoulder-cape worn by the pope alone, consisting of two pieces of white silk ornamented with ...
Titular Bishop of Anémour and first Vicar Apostolic of Athabasca-Mackenzie , Canada ; ...
Situated about 26 miles from Rome, not far from the Farfa Sabina Railway station. A legend in the ...
(FARGUS; FARGENSIS)
Diocese ; suffragan of St. Paul, U.S.A., embracing the whole of the State ...
An archaeologist, b. at Quebec, Canada, 3 Dec., 1789; d. 1866. He was a first cousin of ...
A trader with the Indians and early settler in Minnesota, U.S.A.; b. 19 October, 1774, at ...
An Italian painter, b. at Verona 1524; d. there, 1606. He belonged to the old Florentine ...
( Vere COOK).
English martyr ; b. probably at Faringdon, Berkshire, date unknown; d. at ...
An ecclesiastical historian, b. at San Daniele del Friuli in the present Italian province of ...
The name of two cardinals. For the elder see POPE PAUL III. The young Alessandro Farnese -- ...
(PHARENSIS)
A suffragan of Evora, Portugal, and extending over the province of Algarve. The ...
Geography and Statistics
A group of Danish islands rising from the sea some four hundred miles ...
In general abstinence from food or drink, a term common to the various Teutonic tongues. Some ...
Fatalism is in general the view which holds that all events in the history of the world, and, in ...
( Latin fatum, from fari, to tell or predict ). This word is almost redundant in the ...
A congregation of missionary priests first established at Lyons, France, in 1808, and later at ...
The Appeal to the Fathers
Classification of Patristic Writings
Apostolic Fathers and the Second ...
Christian writers of the first and second centuries who are known, or are considered, to have had ...
A Jesuit theologian, b. 1554, d. at Wilna, Poland, 28 February, 1590-91. After two years at ...
A historian, b. at St-Etienne, France, 27 October, 1772; d. at Paris,15 July, 1844. He studied ...
Martyrs, members of a noble family of Brescia ; the elder brother, Faustinus, being a priest, ...
Bishop of Riez ( Rhegium ) in Southern Gaul (Provence), the best known and most distinguished ...
A former Benedictine monastery of the Cluniac Congregation situated in the County of Kent ...
An astronomer, b. at Saint-Benoît-du-Sault (Indre, France ), Oct., 1814; d. at Paris, 4 ...
(CONSIDERED FROM A MORAL STANDPOINT.)
Fear is an unsettlement of soul consequent upon the ...
(IN CANON LAW.)
A mental disturbance caused by the perception of instant or future danger. ...
A celebration marked by much license and buffoonery, which in many parts of Europe, and ...
( Latin Festum ; Greek heorte ).
Feast Days, or Holy Days, are days which are celebrated in ...
The politico-ecclesiastical system outlined by Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, Auxiliary Bishop of ...
Last Abbot of Westminster, and confessor of the Faith ; b. in Feckenham Forest, ...
A German theologian, b. 25 May, 1753, at Oellingen in Bavaria ; d. 26 July, 1824, at ...
The eighth Earl of Denbigh, and ninth Earl of Desmond, b. 9 April, 1823; d. 1892. He was educated ...
A theologian and Biblical scholar, b. 8 April, 1777, at Hopfgarten, Tyrol; d. at Tübingen, ...
A German educational reformer, pedagogical writer, and canon regular of the Order of St. ...
Suffered martyrdom about 304 in the Diocletian persecution. The "Martyrologium Hieronymianum" ...
Founded 21 November, 1855, at Warsaw, Poland, by Mother Mary Angela, under the direction of ...
A deacon of Carthage who, in the middle of the third century, headed a short-lived but dangerous ...
Martyrs, suffered at Carthage, 7 March 203, together with three companions, Revocatus, Saturus, ...
MARTYR.
The earliest list of the Roman feasts of martyrs, known as the "Depositio Martyrum" ...
Martyrs at Rome, 303, under Diocletian and Maximian. The Acts, first published in Ado's ...
Martyrs during the persecution of Diocletian (303). The relics of these holy witnesses to the ...
Date of birth unknown; d. 274. Early in 269 he succeeded Saint Dionysius as head of the Roman ...
Pope (more properly Antipope ), 355-358; d. 22 Nov., 365.
In 355 Pope Liberius was ...
(Reigned 483-492).
Born of a Roman senatorial family and said to have been an ancestor of ...
(Reigned 526-530).
On 18 May, 526, Pope John I died in prison at Ravenna, a victim of the ...
A Capuchin friar, b. at Cantalice, on the north-western border of the Abruzzi; d. at Rome, 18 ...
Born at Nola, near Naples, and lived in the third century. After his father's death he ...
Born in 1127; d. at Cerfroi, 4 November, 1212. He is commemorated 20 November. He was surnamed ...
Regnal name of Amadeus of Savoy, Antipope (1440-1449).
Born 4 December, 1383, died at ...
An author and apologist, b. at Brussels 18 August, 1735; d. at Ratisbon 22 May, 1802. He ...
Born in Oberdorf, Allgau, Bavaria, 9 Feb., 1751; died 12 Oct., 1812. He studied at Kaufbeuren and ...
Born at Montacute near Wells in Somersetshire; d. 27 Dec., 1615. He was the eldest brother of Ven. ...
A Friar Minor and controversialist, born at Herborn, Germany, in 1485; died at Toulouse, 15 ...
Emperor, eldest son of Archduke Karl and the Bavarian Princess Maria, b. 1578; d. 15 February, ...
King of Leon and Castile, member of the Third Order of St. Francis, born in 1198 near ...
Prince of Portugal, b. in Portugal, 29 September, 1402; d. at Fez, in Morocco, 5 June, 1443. He ...
Italian geographer and naturalist, b. at Bologna 10 July, 1658; d. at Bologna 1 Nov., 1730. He ...
(FERENTINUM)
In the province of Rome, immediately subject to the Holy See. The town was in ...
St. Fergus Cruithneach
Died about 730, known in the Irish martyrologies as St. Fergus ...
( Latin for "free day").
A day on which the people, especially the slaves, were not obliged ...
A French Canadian historian, b. at Montreal, 25 December, 1805; d. at Quebec, 11 January, ...
(FIRMANA).
In the province of Ascoli Piceno (Central Italy ). The great antiquity of the ...
A Spanish conqueror and historian; b. at Palencia in the early part of the sixteenth century. ...
A Jesuit missionary; b. at Lisbon, c. 1569; d. at Goa, 12 November, 1642. About 1602 he was ...
A Jesuit lay brother and missionary; b. at Cordova ; d. 12 June, 1567, in Japan. In a letter ...
DIOCESE OF FERNS (FERNENSIS).
Diocese in the province of Leinster ( Ireland ), suffragan of ...
A RCHDIOCESE OF F ERRARA (F ERRARIENSIS ).
Archdiocese immediately subject to the Holy ...
An Italian painter and the greatest master of the Piedmontese School, b. at Valduggia, near ...
An eighteenth-century canonist of the Franciscan Order. The exact dates of his birth and death ...
Theologian, b. at Valencia, Spain ; d. at Salamanca in 1682. He entered the Dominican Order ...
A poet, important both for his lyric and his dramatic compositions, b. at Lisbon, Portugal, in ...
A Spanish missionary and explorer; b. at Valencia, in 1570; d. at San José, Peru, in ...
Famous Dominican missionary, born at Valencia, 23 January, 1350; died at Vannes, Brittany, 5 ...
Situated in the Diocese of Orléans , department of Loiret, and arrondissement of ...
Architect; with Hansen and Schmidt, the creator of modern Vienna ; b. 7 July, 1828, at Vienna ; ...
Cardinal, b. at Ajaccio, Corsica, 3 January, 1763; d. at Rome, 13 May, 1839. He was the son of a ...
Bishop of St. Polten in Austria and secretary of the Vatican Council ; b. 2 December, 1813, at ...
Priest and martyr ; died at Smithfield, 30 July, 1540. He was chaplain to Catharine of Aragon ...
An Italian painter ; born at Rome, 1589; died at Venice, 1624. He was a pupil of Cigoli ...
Fetishism means the religion of the fetish. The word fetish is derived through the Portuguese ...
A Franciscan, theologian, preacher of the Ligue, b. at Coutanees, Normandy, in 1539; d. at ...
An Austrian poet, philosopher, and physician; born at Vienna, 29 April, 1806; died 3 September, ...
Etymology
This term is derived from the Old Aryan pe'ku , hence Sanskrit pacu , "cattle"; ...
The Cistercians who, about 1145, founded an abbey in a shady valley in the Diocese of Rieux ...
(FEUILLÉE)
Geographer, b. at Mane near Forcalquier, France, in 1660; d. at Marseilles ...
A celebrated Spanish writer, b. at Casdemiro, in the parish of Santa Maria de Molias, Galicia, ...
(Lived about 415-520.) A poet, chief bishop of Leinster, and founder of two churches. His ...
Abbot, born in Ireland about the end of the sixth century; died 18 August, 670. Having been ...
A philosopher, philologist, physician, b. at Florence, 19 Oct., 1433; d. at Correggio, 1 Oct, ...
(More correctly Caspar von Ficker).
Historian, b. at Paderborn, Germany, 30 April, 1826; d. at ...
(Latin fides , faith).
A philosophical term meaning a system of philosophy or an ...
Born in 1577, at Sigmaringen, Prussia, of which town his father Johannes Rey was burgomaster; ...
DIOCESE OF FIESOLE (FÆSULANA).
Diocese in the province of Tuscany, suffragan of Florence. ...
A celebrated Spanish poet, surnamed "the Divine", b. at Alcalá de Henares, c. 1540, d. ...
Franciscan, b. in the latter part of the eighteenth century at Toluca, in the Archdiocese of ...
Comprising the islands belonging to the Fiji Archipelago. This archipelago forms the central ...
Blessed William Filby
Born in Oxfordshire between 1557 and 1560; suffered at Tyburn, 30 May, ...
A humanist, b. at Tolentino, 25 July, 1398; d. at Florence 31 July, 1481. He studied grammar, ...
(Latin filialis , from filia , daughter), a church to which is annexed the cure of souls , ...
Lyric poet; born at Florence, 30 December, 1642; died there 24 September, 1707. At Pisa he was ...
Filioque is a theological formula of great dogmatic and historical importance. On the one ...
French cardinal, canonist, humanist, and geographer, b. 1348 at La Suze, Maine, France ; d. at ...
Jesuit moralist; b. at Sienna, Italy, 1566; d. at Rome 5 April, 1622. Having entered the Society ...
(Or, as his name is more often found, in its Italian form, FIGLIUCCI).
An Italian humanist, a ...
( Perseverantia finalis ).
Final perseverance is the preservation of the state of grace till ...
Second Bishop of Lindisfarne ; died 9 February, 661. He was an Irish monk who had been ...
(Lochan, Barr).
Bishop and patron of Cork, born near Bandon, about 550, died at Cloyne, 25 ...
A martyr, b. about 1548; d. 20 April, 1584. He was a yeoman of Eccleston, Lancashire, and a ...
An English martyr ; b. at Barnby, near Howden, Yorkshire; executed at York, 8 August, 1586. He ...
Note: This article was taken from the 1909 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia, and is presented ...
Born about 495; died 589. Though not so celebrated as his namesake of Clonard, he was the ...
Born at Ferrara, Italy, 21 September, 1817; died at Central City, Colorado, 10 January, 1879. ...
St. Fintan of Clonenagh
A Leinster saint, b. about 524; d. 17 February, probably 594, or at least ...
Little Flowers of Francis of Assisi , the name given to a classic collection of popular legends ...
Fire is one of the most expressive and most ancient of liturgical symbols. All the creeds of ...
(Septuagint stereoma ; Vulgate, firmamentum ).
The notion that the sky was a vast solid ...
Christian author of the fourth century; wrote a work "De errore profanarum religionum". Nothing ...
Bishop of Cæsarea in Cappadocia, died c. 269. He had among his contemporaries a reputation ...
The word, though casually taken in Holy Writ in a metaphorical sense, is most generally used by ...
The practice of consecrating first-fruits to the Deity is not a distinctly Jewish one (cf. ...
( Latin PROCURATOR FISCALIS).
The duties of the fiscal procurator consist in preventing ...
Archbishop of Cologne and cardinal, b. at Julich, 30 May, 1840; d. at Neuenahr, 30 July, 1912. ...
Among the symbols employed by the primitive Christians, that of the fish ranks probably first in ...
(An alias , real name THOMAS COPLEY)
Missionary, b. in Madrid, 1595-6; d. in Maryland, U. ...
The earliest mention of the Fisherman's ring worn by the popes is in a letter of Clement IV ...
Born in Worcestershire, England, 1628; died at St. Thomas' Priory, near Stafford, 6 Feb., 1700. ...
Missionary, b. at Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. , 10 April, 1805; d. there, 15 Sept., 1881. His ...
American merchant, b. in Ireland, 1741; d. at Philadelphia, U.S.A. 26 Aug., 1811. There is no ...
Twelfth Earl of Arundel, b. about 1511; d. in London, 24 Feb., 1580 (O.S. 1579). Son of William, ...
(Catherine FitzGibbon.)
Born in London, England, 12 May, 1823; died in New York, 14 August, ...
Judge, b. in 1470; d. 27 May, 1538. He was the sixth son of Ralph Fitzherbert of Norbury, ...
Wife of King George IV; b. 26 July, 1756 (place uncertain); d. at Brighton, England, 29 March, ...
Born 1552, at Swynnerton, Staffs, England ; died 17 Aug., 1640, at Rome. His father having died ...
Historian, b. in Dublin, Ireland, 31 Aug., 1830; d. there 24 Dec., 1895. The son of a rich ...
Archbishop of Armagh, b. at Dundalk, Ireland, about 1295; d. at Avignon, 16 Dec., 1360. He ...
(Fitz Simon).
Jesuit, b. 1566 (or 1569), in Dublin, Ireland ; d. 29 Nov., 1643 (or 1645), ...
Astronomer, b. at Achleuthen near Kremsmünster, Austria, in 1721; d. at Kremsmünster, ...
Physicist, b. at Paris, 23 Sept., 1819; d. at Nanteuil, Seine-et-Marne, 18 Sept., 1896. His ...
Bishop; b. at Pernes, France, 1632; died at Montpellier, 1710; member of the Academy, and ...
Spanish theologian, archeologist, and historian; born at Valladolid, 14 February, 1701; died at ...
The flabellum, in liturgical use, is a fan made of leather, silk, parchment, or feathers ...
( Plakilla )
Empress, wife of Theodosius the Great , died c. A. D. 385 or 386. Like ...
A fanatical and heretical sect that flourished in the thirteenth and succeeding centuries, Their ...
The history of the whip, rod, and stick, as instruments of punishment and of voluntary penance, ...
First Bishop of Bardstown (subsequently of Louisville ), Kentucky, U.S.A. b. at Contournat, ...
Born in England in 1814, though Irish by descent; died at Kidderminster, 21 July, 1865. He was ...
(Flemish VLAENDEREN; German FLANDEREN; French FLANDRE).
Designated in the eighth century a ...
French painter, b. at Lyons, 23 March, 1809; d. at Rome, 21 March, 1864. He came of a family of ...
A name used in both Americas, without special ethnologic significance, to designate tribes ...
( Alias Major).
An English priest and martyr ; b. probably c. 1580 at Weston, Yorkshire, ...
A Christian Roman matron of the imperial family who lived towards the close of the first ...
Bishop of Constantinople, date of birth unknown; d. at Hypæpa in Lydia, August, 449. ...
A titular see of Cilicia Secunda. Nothing is known of its ancient name and history, except that ...
A Benedictine abbey in the Diocese of Dijon, the department of Côte-d'Or, and ...
A titular see in the province of Honorias. The city, formerly called Cratia, originally belonged ...
(The name was also spelled FLEMALLE and FLAMAEL).
Painter, b. at Liège, Flanders, in ...
Franciscan friar b. at Lagan, Couny Louth, Ireland, 17 April, 1599; d. 7 November, 1631. His ...
(FLEMMING, FLEMMYNGE).
Bishop of Lincoln and founder of Lincoln College, Oxford; b. of a ...
Archbishop of Dublin, son of the Baron of Slane, b. in 1593; d. in 1665. He studied at thy ...
A missionary and theologian, b. at Ormskirk, England, of an old Catholic family ; educated at ...
An Augustinian hermit friar, a contemporary and great friend of St. Catherine of Siena ; the ...
A French novelist, b. at Saint-Brieuc, 12 September, 1829; d. at Paris, 18 December, 1890. She ...
( More completely FLEURY-SAINT-BENOÎT)
One of the oldest and most celebrated ...
Born at Lodève, 26 June, 1653; died at Paris, 29 January, 1742. He was a ...
(Or FRODOARD)
French historian and chronicler, b. at Epernay in 894; d. in 966. He was ...
Deluge is the name of a catastrophe fully described in Genesis 6:1 - 9:19 , and referred to in the ...
Pleasantly situated on the right bank of the Sambre, about seven miles southwest of Namur, ...
(Latin Florentia ; Italian Firenze ). ARCHDIOCESE OF FLORENCE (FLORENTINA).
Located in ...
English chronicler; all that is known of his personal history is that he was a monk of ...
The Seventeenth Ecumenical Council was, correctly speaking, the continuation of the Council of ...
Virgin ; born towards the middle of the sixth century; died about 612. The family of St. ...
Born at the château of Florian (Gard), 6 March, 1755; died at Sceaux, 13 September, 1794. An ...
(Floriacenses), an altogether independent order, and not, as some consider, a branch of the ...
The Peninsular or Everglade State, the most southern in the American Union and second largest east ...
Florilegia (Lat., florilegium, an anthology) are systematic collections of excerpts (more or ...
A deacon of Lyons, ecclesiastical writer in the first half of the ninth century. We have no ...
English missionary, wrote under the names Flud, Daniel à Jesu, Hermannus Loemelius, George ...
ARCHDIOCESE OF FOGARAS (FOGARASIENSIS).
Archdiocese in Hungary, of the Greek-Rumanian Rite. It ...
DIOCESE OF FOGGIA (FODIANA).
Diocese in the province of the same name in Apulia (Southern ...
( Irish FAELAN, FAOLAN, FOELAN, FOALAN.)
Represented in iconography with a crown at his ...
An Italian poet, better known by his pseudonyrn MERLIN COCCALO or COCAI; b. at Mantua in 1496; ...
Born at Astley in Worcestershire, England, 9 Aug., 1811; died at Manresa House, Roehampton, 19 ...
DIOCESE OF FOLIGNO (FULGINATENSIS).
Diocese in the province of Perugia, Italy, immediately ...
Bishop of London, b. early in the twelfth century of an Anglo-Norman family and connected ...
Folkestone Abbey -- more correctly FOLKESTONE PRIORY -- is situated in the east division of ...
(ANTONIO DAS CHAGAS). Friar Minor and ascetical writer; b. at Vidigueira, 25 June, 1631; d. at ...
Friar Minor ; b. at Evora, 3 Dec., 1690; d. at Porto, 16 June, 1752. He was received into the ...
A philosopher and theologian, born at Cortizada, Portugal, 1528; died at Lisbon, 4 Nov., 1599. ...
An architect and writer; b. at Bruciato, near Como, 1634; d. at Rome, 1714. There seems to be no ...
A Roman architect of the Late Renaissance, b. at Melide on the Lake of Lugano, 1543; d. at ...
Italian naturalist and physiologist, b. at Pomarolo in the Tyrol, 15 April, 1730; d. at Florence, ...
In religion Mother St. John, second foundress and superior-general of the Sisters of St. Joseph ...
A suppressed order of hermits, which takes its name from their first hermitage in the Apennines. ...
(Or ABBEY OF SAINT WANDRILLE).
A Benedictine monastery in Normandy ...
I. CHARACTER OF THE ORDER
The monastery of Fontevrault was founded by Blessed Robert ...
Vessels intended for the use of holy water are of very ancient origin, and archaeological ...
A celebration marked by much license and buffoonery, which in many parts of Europe, and ...
Generally known as CARADOSS0.
Italian goldsmith, sculptor, and die sinker, b. at Mondonico in ...
Capuchin, b. 1570; d. 1606. His father, John, eighth Lord Forbes, being a Protestant, and his ...
A Bishop of Nancy and Toul, founder of the Association of the Holy Childhood , born in Paris, ...
Latin lexicographer, b. at Fener, near Treviso, Italy, 26 Aug., 1688; d. at Padua, 4 April, ...
Born in Devonshire; died at Tyburn, 28 May, 1582. He incepted M.A. at Trinity College, Oxford, 14 ...
Fordham University developed out of Saint John's College, founded by Bishop Hughes upon the old ...
A Scottish prelate, of good border family ; b. at Hatton, near Berwick-on-Tweed; d. 1522. His ...
Controversialist, b. at Lucerne, 1580; d. at Ratisbon, 7 January, 1659. He entered the Society ...
I
On 30 July, 1879, some members of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of Boston, Massachusetts, ...
If we accept the definition usually given by canonists, forgery ( Latin falsum ) differs very ...
(FOROLIVIENSIS)
Diocese in the province of Romagna (Central Italy ); suffragan of Ravenna. ...
(Latin forma; Greek eidos, morphe, he kata ton logon ousia, to ti en einai : Aristotle)
...
Born 1816; died at Normanton Hall, Leicester, 12 March, 1884. His father, Henry Grenehalgh Formby, ...
(891-896)
The pontificate of this pope belongs to that era of strife for political supremacy ...
(LIBRI FORMULARUM)
Formularies are medieval collections of models for the execution of ...
Priest and poet; dates of birth and death uncertain. Few personal details are known of him. He ...
Prince-Abbot of St. Emmeram at Ratisbon, b. 30 Aug., 1709, at Königsfeld in Upper Bavaria ...
Astronomer and naturalist, b. at London, 9 Nov., 1789; d. at Brussels, 2 Feb., 1860. His literary ...
St. Benedict's Abbey, at Fort Augustus, Inverness-shire, is at present the only monastery for ...
DIOCESE OF (WAYNE CASTRENSIS).
The Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana, U.S.A. established in ...
(FORTALEXIENSIS)
The Diocese of Fortaleza is co-extensive with the State of Ceará in ...
Knight of St. John, martyr, b. about 1476, executed 10 July, 1539. He belonged to the Salden ...
(1) Manliness is etymologically what is meant by the Latin word virtus and by the Greek andreia ...
Morphologist and Minorite of the Reform of Lombardy ; b. at Brescia, 1701; d. at Madrid, ...
Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus
A Christian poet of the sixth century, b. ...
Also called Quarant' Ore or written in one word Quarantore , is a devotion in which continuous ...
A party of soldiers who suffered a cruel death for their faith, near Sebaste, in Lesser Armenia, ...
That the Church of Christ has judicial and coercive power is plain from the constitution given ...
DIOCESE OF FOSSANO (FOSSANENSIS).
Fossano is a town in the province of Cuneo, in Piedmont, ...
DIOCESE OF FOSSOMBRONE (FOROSEMPRONIENSIS).
Diocese in the province of Pesaro, Italy, a ...
(Latin fossores , fossarii from fodere , to dig).
Grave diggers in the Roman ...
Soldier, convert, b. at Whitfield, New Hampshire, U.S.A. 27 May, 1823; d. at Nashua, New ...
Surnamed NA CANOINE ("of the Canon").
A monk of Fahan-Mura, County Doneval, Ireland, at the ...
An ecclesiastical writer b. at Elbeuf, near Rouen, 6 Aug. 1837; his early life was a ...
A physicist and mechanician, b. at Paris, 19 Sept., 1819; d. there 11 Feb., 1868. He received ...
A popular Crusade preacher, d. March, 1202. At the end of the twelfth century he was ...
( Latin fundatio; German Stiftung )
An ecclesiastical foundation is the making over of ...
Under this title are comprised all institutions which take charge of infants whose parents or ...
A monastery of the Cistercian Order situated on the banks of the Skell about two and a half ...
(Or J EAN F OUQUET )
French painter and miniaturist, b. at Tours, c. 1415; d. about 1480. ...
The old guidebooks to the tombs of the Roman martyrs make mention, in connection with the ...
The most extensive of all the compilations of the ancient annals of Ireland. They commence, ...
Scholar and printer, b. at Bristol, England, 1537; d. at Namur, Flanders, 13 Feb., 1578-9. He ...
John Foxe was born at Boston in Lincolnshire, England, in 1516, and was educated at Magdalen ...
Born at Notre-Dame de Lévis, P.Q., Canada, 16 November, 1839; died 30 May, 1908. He ...
DIOCESE OF FRÉJUS (FORUM JULII).
Suffragan of Aix ; comprises the whole department of ...
A famous painter of the Florentine school, born near Castello di Vicchio in the province of ...
(BREAKING OF BREAD.)
The name given to a fresco in the so-called "Capella Greca" in the ...
The fifth in size (usually reckoned the fourth) of the great divisions of Europe.
DESCRIPTIVE ...
Duchess of Brittany, afterwards Carmelite nun, b. 1427; d. at Nantes, 4 Nov., 1485. The daughter ...
(Bussa di Leoni.)
One of the greatest mystics of the fifteenth century; born at Rome, of a noble ...
Italian painter ; b. at Bologna, 1648; d. there c. 1729; best known for the decorative works he ...
The pseudonym of CRISTOFORO BONAVINO, philosopher ; b. 24 February, 1821, at Pegli, province of ...
(FRANCESCO RAIBOLINI)
A famous Bolognese goldsmith, engraver, and artist, b. about 1450; d. in ...
(Spanish F RANCISCO DE B ORJA Y A RAGON )
Francis Borgia, born 28 October, 1510, was the ...
Co-founder with John Augustine Adorno of the Conregation of the Minor Clerks Regular ; b. in Villa ...
(Girolamo, Hieronymo).
Born 17 December, 1642; died 11 May, 1716. His birthplace was ...
Bishop of Geneva, Doctor of the Universal Church ; born at Thorens, in the Duchy of Savoy, 21 ...
King of France ; b. at Cognac, 12 September, 1494; d. at Rambouillet, 31 March, 1547. He was the ...
English martyr, born about 1551; suffered at York on Friday, 3 June, 1586 (old style). According ...
Founder of the Franciscan Order, born at Assisi in Umbria, in 1181 or 1182 -- the exact year ...
Priest of the Order of Friars Minor ; b. 2 Sept., 1251; d. 22 April, 1322. His birth and ...
Founder of the Order of Minims; b. in 1416, at Paula, in Calabria, Italy ; d. 2 April, 1507, at ...
A Spanish theologian ; b. about 1480, at Vittoria, province of Avila, in Old Castile ; d. 12 ...
A Lazarist missionary in China ; b. 1748, martyred, 18 Feb., 1820. His father was a merchant ...
South American missionary of the Order of Friars Minor ; b. at Montilla, in the Diocese of ...
Born in the Castle of Xavier near Sanguesa, in Navarre, 7 April, 1506; died on the Island of ...
As known, St. Francis founded three orders and gave each of them a special rule. Here only the ...
( Or Seraphic Rosary.)
A Rosary consisting of seven decades in commemoration of the seven ...
A term commonly used to designate the members of the various foundations of religious, whether men ...
A theologian and controversialist; b. at Ortrand, Saxony, 2 Nov., 1543; d. at Ingolstadt, 12 ...
(Frequently known as IL SEMOLIE)
Italian historical painter and etcher, b. at Udine in ...
Catholic artist and rediscoverer of the lost art of glass-painting; b. 1 June, 1770, at ...
JOHANN HEINRICH, GRAF VON FRANKENBERG.
Archbishop of Mechlin (Malines), Primate of ...
Convened in the summer of 794, by the grace of God, authority of the pope, and command of ...
Frankfort-on-the-Main, formerly the scene of the election and coronation of the German emperors, ...
The Franks were a confederation formed in Western Germany of a certain number of ancient ...
Cardinal and theologian ; b. at Aldein, in the Tyrol, 15 April, 1816; d. at Rome, 11 Dec., ...
DIOCESE OF FRASCATI (TUSCULANA).
One of the six suburbicarian (i.e. neighbouring) dioceses ...
A celebrated Scotist theologian and philosopher of the Order of Friars Minor ; b. near ...
Fraternal correction is here taken to mean the admonishing of one's neighbor by a private ...
(Or F RATRICELLI )
A name given to various heretical sects which appeared in the fourteenth ...
In the common acceptation of the word, an act or course of deception deliberately practised with ...
Optician, b. at Straubing, Bavaria, 6 March, 1787; d. at Munich, 7 June, 1826. He was the tenth ...
1765-1841, Bishop of Hermopolis in partibus infidelium , is celebrated chiefly for his ...
The name used since the sixteenth designate the supposed author of an anonymous historical ...
(Fridugisus or Fredegisus).
A ninth-century monk, teacher, and writer. Fredegis was an ...
German King and Roman Emperor, son of Frederick of Swabia (d. 1147) and Judith, daughter of Henry ...
German King and Roman Emperor, son of Henry VI and Constance of Sicily; born 26 Dec., 1194; died ...
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati ; b. at Vérune, France, c. ú d. at Avignon, 11 June, ...
(Known since 1900 as the UNITED FREE CHURCH)
An ecclesiastical organization in Scotland ...
RELATION OF THE QUESTION TO DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY
HISTORY
Free Will in Ancient ...
Those who, abandoning the religious truths and moral dictates of the Christian Revelation, and ...
A priest and martyr, b. at Manthorp near York, c. 1558; d. at Warwick, 13 August, 1595. His ...
The subject is treated under the following heads:
I. Name and Definition;II. Origin and Early ...
Cardinal ; b. at Genoa, about 1480; d. 22 July, 1541; belonged to the Fregosi, one of the four ...
City, archdiocese, and university in the Archduchy of Baden, Germany .
THE CITY
Freiburg in ...
Jesuit missionary to the American Indians ; b. at Reims, 12 March, 1628; d. at Quebec, 2 July, ...
The French Academy was founded by Cardinal de Richelieu in 1635. For several years a number of ...
The first Bishop of Burlington, the Right Reverend Louis de Goesbriand, in a letter dated 11 ...
This name is given to the convention of the 26th Messidor, year IX (July 16, 1802), whereby Pope ...
Origin and Foundations of the French Language
When the Romans became masters of Gaul, they imposed ...
The last thirty years have given us a new version of the history of the French Revolution, the ...
Bishop of Ferns, Ireland, b. at Ballytory, Co. Wexford, in 1604, his parents being John ...
Born at Ober-Ehnheim, Alsace, 1 June, 1827; died at Paris, 22 Dec., 1891. He was Bishop of ...
Without specifying how often the faithful should communicate, Christ simply bids us eat His Flesh ...
Physicist; b. at Broglie near Bernay, Normandy, 10 May, 1788; d. at Ville d'Avray, near Paris, ...
[From Lat. frater , through O. Fr. fredre, frere, M. E. frere; It. frate (as prefix ...
(Also known as FRANCISCANS.) This subject may be conveniently considered under the following ...
From the sixteenth century, the foundation of a Catholic university in Switzerland had often ...
(Properly FRIEDEL.)
Jesuit missioner and cartographer, b. at Linz, Austria, 11 March, 1673; ...
(FRIDESWIDA, FREDESWIDA, French FRÉVISSE, Old English FRIS).
Virgin, patroness of ...
Missionary, founder of the Monastery of Säckingen, Baden (sixth century). In accordance with ...
(HUSEN)
Medieval German poet, one of the earliest of the minnesingers; date of birth ...
( German G OTTESFREUNDE ).
An association of pious persons, both ecclesiastical and lay, ...
The official designation of an Anglo - American religious sect originally styling themselves ...
The monastery of St. Michael was founded, about 960, at Frigolet, by Conrad the Pacific, King ...
This word is used to denote a special kind of trimming, consisting of loose threads of wool, silk, ...
A Jesuit missionary of the eighteenth century noted for his exploration of the Amazon River and ...
French historian and poet, b. at Valenciennes, about 1337, d. at sentence -->Chimay early ...
French writer and artist; b. at La Rochelle, 24 October, 1820; d. at Saint-Maurice, near La ...
The frontal ( antipendium, pallium altaris ) is an appendage which covers the entire front of ...
A governor of New France, b. at Paris, 1622; d. at Quebec, 28 Nov., 1698. His father was captain ...
Benedictine abbot, d. 11 March, 1178. Of the early life of Frowin nothing is known, save that he ...
An Archbishop, d. 16 April, c. 665. He was the son of a Gothic general, and studied in Palencia. ...
A bishop and martyr ; d. 21 January, 259. During the night of 16 January, he, together with ...
A chemist and mineralogist, b. at Mattenzell, near Bremberg, Lower Bavaria, 15 May, 1774; d. at ...
Bishop, b. between 952 and 962; d. 10 April, 1028 or 1029. Mabillon and others think that he was ...
Bishop of Lodève; d. 13 February, 1006. According to the biography which Bernard Guidonis, ...
DIOCESE OF FULDA (FULDENSIS).
This diocese of the German Empire takes its name from the ...
A canonist and theologian of the African Church in the first half of the sixth century. He was ...
A Bishop of Ecija (Astigi), in Spain, at the beginning of the seventh century. Like his brothers ...
(FABIUS CLAUDIUS GORDIANUS FULGENTIUS).
Born 468, died 533. Bishop of Ruspe in the province ...
Novelist; born 23 September, 1812, in Staffordshire, died 19 January, 1885, at Bournemouth. She ...
Intruding Monophysite Patriarch of Antioch ; d. 488. He received the Greek surname Gnapheus ...
A theologian, b. at Villon near Piacenza ; d. 1545. At an early age he entered the Dominican ...
(FUNCHALENSIS.)
Diocese in the Madeira Islands. Both in neo-Latin and in Portuguese the name ...
This term was employed by Protestant theologians to distinguish the essential parts of the ...
The canonical perquisites of a parish priest receivable on the occasion of the funeral of any of ...
A black cloth usually spread over the coffin while the obsequies are performed for a deceased ...
Church historian, b. in the small market town of Abtsgemünd in Würtemberg, 12 October, ...
Situated in the north of Lancashire about five miles from the town of Ulverston. Originally a ...
A titular see in Proconsular Africa, where two towns of this name are known to have existed. One ...
A well-known children's missioner, born near Sheffield, England, 19 June, 1809; at Clapham, ...
An Abbot of Lagny, near Paris, d. 16 Jan., about 650. He was the son of Fintan, son of Finloga, ...
A titular see in Numidia. It was a fortified town, inhabited for the most part by Donatists ...
( Or FAUST.)
A partner of Gutenberg in promoting the art of printing, d. at Paris about ...
An English Franciscan friar ot the Capuchin Reform, whose family name was Filch; b. at ...