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• Kiang-nan: (Vicariate Apostolic) The present Vicariate comprises the ...
• Kiang-si, Eastern: (Vicariate Apostolic) The mission of Eastern Kiang-si was ...
• Kiang-si, Northern: (Vicariate Apostolic) Father Matteo Ricci of the Society of ...
• Kiang-si, Southern: (Vicariate Apostolic) Southern Kiang-si was separated from ...
• Kickapoo Indians: Apparently corrupted from a longer term signifying "roamers", a ...
• Kickham, Charles Joseph: Patriot, novelist, and poet, b. at Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary, ...
• Kielce: (Russian K IELTZY ; Latin K IELCENSIS ) Diocese in the ...
• Kieran, Saints: There are many Irish saints of this name, but the most ...
• Kildare and Leighlin: (KILDARENSIS ET LEIGHLINENSIS) One of the four suffragans of ...
• Kildare, School of: Kildare (Irish: Cill-Dara ), originally known as Druim ...
• Kilian, Saint: (Killena, Cillíne). Apostle of Franconia and martyr, ...
• Killala: (ALLADENSIS). Diocese. It is one of the five suffragan sees ...
• Killaloe: (LAONIA) A suffragan diocese of Cashel ; it comprises ...
• Kilmore: (KILMORENSIS) Diocese in Ireland, includes almost all Cavan ...
• Kilwardby, Robert: Archbishop of Canterbury, Cardinal-Bishop of Porto and ...
• Kilwinning, Benedictine Abbey of: Located in Ayrshire, Scotland, in the town of the same name, ...
• Kimberley: (KIMBERLIENSIS) Vicariate apostolic ; suffragan of ...
• Kimberley in Orange: (KYMBERLEYENSIS IN ORANGIA). The portion of South Africa ...
• Kingdom of God: (In Matthew, generally, Kingdom of Heaven ). In this ...
• Kingisel: The name of two abbots who ruled Glastonbury in the seventh ...
• Kings: (Plural of Latin magus ; Greek magoi ). The "wise men ...
• Kings, Chronology of the: First, we append a table in which the data of the Bible are put ...
• Kings, First and Second Books of: (Also know as the F IRST AND S ECOND B OOKS OF S AMUEL. ...
• Kings, Third and Fourth Books of: The historical book called in the Hebrew Melakhim, i.e. ...
• Kingston: (KINGSTONIENSIS or REGIOPOLITANA) The Archdiocese of ...
• Kinloss: (Gaelic ceann-loch , "head of the loch"). Cistercian ...
• Kino, Eusebius: A famous Jesuit missionary of the seventeenth and eighteenth ...
• Kiowa Indians: (Pronounced Kai-o-wa , Latin spelling. Spanish form: Caygua ...
• Kirby, Blessed Luke: Blessed William Filby Born in Oxfordshire between 1557 and ...
• Kircher, Athanasius: Celebrated for the versatility of his knowledge and ...
• Kirkwall: A parish, also a royal and parliamentary burgh and chief or ...
• Kisfaludy: Sándor Kisfaludy Born at Suemeg, Hungary, 27 Sept., ...
• Kiss: Four times in the Epistles of St. Paul we meet the ...

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